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- EIN 13-5562186
- (212) 371-1000
- 1011 First Avenue 10th Floor New York NY 10022-4112 USA
- www.catholicguardian.org
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Causes: Adoption, Children & Youth, Developmentally Disabled Centers, Disabilities, Group Homes, Human Services
Mission: Catholic guardian services (the "agency"), a not-for-profit membership corporation, seeks to affirm the dignity of each person it serves and to carry a message of hope to vulnerable persons of all ages, regardless of race, color, creed or ethnic origin. Its goal is to protect and nurture disadvantaged children and individuals with disabilities, to increase their prospects for self-sufficiency, to strengthen the family structures integral to their support, and to continually adapt its responses to their ever-changing needs. Specifically, it collaborates with others in the public and voluntary sectors to offer professional and compassionate care to needy individuals and groups through a broad array of community-based programs.
Programs: Human services programs: pwdd-nys opwdd 24 hour care for people with developmental disabilities (28 residences) (73,692 days care) the program serves individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities by providing care and shelter and helping them fulfill their goals by carefully balancing supports and independence. This is accomplished through participation in day programs where people in the program learn new life skills by shopping, helping with household chores, playing sports, attending concerts, visiting museums and taking vacations. The participants in the program are part of the community around them holding jobs, doing volunteer work and having friends and knowing their neighbors.
foster care programs: foster care programs - nyc 24 hour child care: foster boarding homes days care (239,679) the program provides 24 hour a day safety and care through foster parents for previously abused and neglected children through 600 foster boarding homes in manhattan and the bronx. Children in this program receive medicaid coverage, social services planning and permanency. The foster boarding home program also offers special services to meet special needs such as children living with hiv/aids and other serious medical problems. The therapeutic foster boarding homes and teen units provide specialized clinical services that have been successful in allowing teenagers and other youngsters with severe emotional and behavioral challenges to live in family foster care rather than institutional settings.
human services programs, general/other: prevention (482 families) the family connections, functional family therapy-child welfare, and child success preventive programs provide support and stability to families in crisis with the goal of preventing placement of children in out-of-home care.