Computer skills as a determinant of economic stability in a poverty-affected community

For the present study, we analyzed cross-sectional data from a Community Services Survey conducted by Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation (BSRC) widely known as the nation’s first community development corporation (Davies, 2013). The survey collected data on the socio-economic needs of the community residents, and precipitated BSRC to participate in Roadmap to Mental Health, the New York City mental health initiative for the marginalized populations, and the city-wide Jobs Plus program (Silver et al., 2017). The survey was conducted with the residents of Northern Bedford-Stuyvesant (NBS), a low-SES minority neighborhood in Northern Brooklyn, that constitutes two US Census tracts, 255 and 283, in the summer and fall of 2015