OLA in the News

OLA lanza encuesta para visibilizar la agresión sexual contra menores y los obstáculos que se encuentran en la búsqueda de justicia Según...

OLA Launches Survey to Improve Reporting Processes for Child Victims of Sexual Assault At age 7, Isabella Martinez was quiet, until she...

Katie Horan, health teacher at Dodd Middle School in Freeport, teaches breathing exercises during a class earlier this month. Credit:...

October 18, 2022 When Emily Lupercio was going through what she called her own “mental health journey” during her junior year of college,...

Organización Latino Americana (OLA) of Eastern Long Island is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Founded in 2002, the nonprofit...

OLA of Eastern Long Island will hold its first-ever Youth Summit for young people ages 14 to 22 on Monday, Aug. 15 at the Bridgehampton...

July 18, 2022 OLA of Eastern Long Island and Quail Hill Farm have begun their third summer of collaboration to make sure that families...

OLA staff members are celebrating 20 years of working for a more equitable East End for Latino immigrants. Here they are pictured at the...

Minerva Perez, seen here at Organizacion Latino-Americana's Pachanga in June, is the group's executive director. Durell Godfrey By...

CDC Foundation, Partnering for Vaccine Equity OLA of Eastern Long Island in New York has been working to bring COVID-19 vaccines to the...

TU PRENSA LOCAL One of the most important issues in raising children is that of sexuality and education around this fundamental factor in...

By Timothy Bolger East End renters facing eviction proceedings and immigrant children at risk of deportation have new legal resources at...

By JAMES LANE POST OLA of Eastern Long Island has organized two vaccine events on Wednesday, January 5, to expand access to boosters,...

By Christine Sampson From pediatric vaccine clinics to booster shots for everyone 18 and up to information sessions held in people’s...

By Staff Writer An anonymous donor has given OLA of Eastern Long Island $30,000 to support the nonprofit organization’s efforts to...

By Kitty Merrill Since its founding in 2002, Organización Latino-Americana of Eastern Long Island (OLA), has been working with local...

As a nonprofit organization, the primary mission of OLA (Organización Latino Americana) of Eastern Long Island is to advocate for the...

A Riverhead High School student and her father picking up a Chromebook at Riverhead High School in October 2020. According to the U.S. Census, among all age groups, Riverhead's Hispanic population climbed by 68.4%, from 3,369 in 2010 to 5,674 in 2020.  Credit: Randee Daddona Rosman Garcia, 19, of Riverhead, moved to Riverhead in 2017 from Guatemala to live with his mother, who found rent to be more affordable than in Westhampton Beach. That decision may have been driven by fi

By Denise Civiletti Opponents of Riverhead’s proposed rental housing code revisions packed the Town Hall meeting room Tuesday night to...

By News 12 Staff Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday that he's directing $15 million to communities hardest hit by COVID-19 and have the...