{"id":130030,"date":"2024-05-02T23:02:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T03:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=130030"},"modified":"2024-05-02T23:02:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T03:02:19","slug":"northampton-county-access-device-and-giveaway-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=130030","title":{"rendered":"Northampton County &#8211; Access Device and Giveaway Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>County Executive Lamont G. McClure and the Northampton County Department of Community &amp; Economic Development (DCED) announced today that Northampton County created a free Access Device and Giveaway Program for County organizations.<\/p>\n<p>This new giveaway program was announced\u00a0on the first day of a two-day Digital Navigator Training at Northampton Community College. &#8220;We are refurbishing old county-owned laptops\u00a0in order to\u00a0donate to public-facing employees in Northampton County, such as healthcare workers, schools, municipalities, and nonprofits. Our goal is a path to digital equity and ensuring every county resident has sufficient access to the internet,&#8221; says Executive Lamont McClure.<\/p>\n<p>Northampton County is partnering with the National Inclusion Alliance for this week&#8217;s training to teach Digital Navigators:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to pair community members with appropriate devices and locate local free and low-cost options<\/li>\n<li>What resources are available for self-guided digital skills, and how to use resources to teach one-on-one or to small groups<\/li>\n<li>How a digital navigator program conducts its work, including data collection and client management<\/li>\n<li>How to identify internet options for low-income community members<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If your organization would like to sign up to receive a refurbished device,\u00a0please contact the Northampton County Department\u00a0of Community &amp; Economic Development at (610) 829-6306.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>WHO: County Executive Lamont G. McClure and the Northampton County Department of Community and Economic Development<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>WHAT: Access Device and Giveaway Program<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>WHERE: Northampton County<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nCounty of Northampton<br \/>\n669 Washington Street<br \/>\nEaston, PA 18042<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/\">https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>County Executive Lamont G. McClure and the Northampton County Department of Community &amp; Economic Development (DCED) announced today that Northampton County created a free Access Device and Giveaway Program for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=130030\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Northampton County &#8211; Access Device and Giveaway Program<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,5738,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-northampton-county","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/computer.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/130031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}