Hamilton-Madison House Inc

Programs: Early learn (head start, day care, and upk)the house offered a variety of childcare options for children betweenthe ages of 2 months and 6 years old. The mission is to foster thehealthy development of children through the holistic provision of earlychildhood education, health services, nutritional assistance, andsocial services to families. The programs included family day care,and head start. Head start programs foster the healthy development of children between the ages of 3 and 5 years old to prepare them for kindergarten. Caring and knowledgeable teachers created a learning environmentthat enhanced a child's social, intellectual, emotional and physical growth. Family day care coordinated licensed, home-based family day care for children between the ages of 2 months and 5 years old. One objective was to recruit,train, and support family childcare providers to develop and maintain asafe, nurturing, educational, and high-quality child care environmentin their homes. School house offered a pre-school, fee-based programthat emphasized social and emotional growth, while giving carefulattention to cognitive and physical development.

behavioral healththe house is the leading provider of behavioral health services for newyork city's asian community. Hamilton-madison house providedculturally and linguistically sensitive individual and group counselingfor chinese, japanese, korean and southeast asian clients, continuingday services, substance abuse and recovery services, supported housingand a daily psychosocial club. After hurricane sandy, the behavioralhealth program initiated project hope to assist local victims.

senior servicesthe house provided a variety of senior programs and centers that striveto minimize isolation and depression by helping seniors continue tolive as active members of the community. The programs and centersserved more than 6,000 seniors who ranged from 60-90 years old and whospoke eight different languages and dialects. The house also providedcaregivers and families caring for seniors with resources, informationand support to assist their loved ones. Programs and centers included:caregiver programs, city hall senior center, smith (norc) seniorcenter, and knickerbocker village (norc) senior center, two bridgessenior center, and social adult day program.