HARTLEY HOUSE

Programs: Children & youth servicesafter school program - from september through june after every school day, children ages 5 to 12 are escorted to hartley house to participate in the after school program (asp) until 6 pm. As of 6/27/2013, our school age child care license was expanded to serve 194 students, and in 2014, and we launched a fruitful collaboration with lincoln square neighborhood center (lsnc) to replicate our after school learning community structure there and expand our capacity to serve more students. Between both sites, we currently serve 175 children. The children enjoy a nutritious snack and a healthy balance of play, academics, and creative projects. In addition to receiving daily homework assistance, students engage in a broad range of age-appropriate activities such as idea labs, computers, drama, music, ceramics, theatre production and rehearsal, art and gym. The asp provides the children of working parents with a safe and warm environment where they are encouraged to develop their social-emotional, academic and creative skills through a project-based learning community (lc) design. Students participated in three lc groups in 2014: jan-mar, apr-june & sept-dec. Lc groups are broken out by grade level, and each group had idea lab, gym, one visual art session (ceramics or arts & crafts) and one performing arts session (drama and music) per week. Idea labs utilize a multi-modal approach, visual, aural, read/write, and kinesthetic sensory modalities vark - fleming and mills (1992) while also considering howard gardner's theory of multiple intelligences. Idea lab lessons are planned by the counselors for each group with supervision from the program director and incorporate readings, writing exercises, literacy games, and creative play to engage the participants in learning about and creating a final project for their topic. Lcs are an essential element of our program model because participants choose their topics of study and the interests of the children in each group drive the curriculum and lesson planning. The lc projects in 2014 included students from lsnc, and culminated in wildly successful joint capstone showcases featuring works of art, performances, and celebratory activities. The lc projects this year saw students learn about space, magnets, and mythological creatures. The showcases were an opportunity for students to demonstrate to parents and fellow students what they had learned about each topic, but also demonstrate new artistic skills they had learned such as costume design, lighting and sound, directing, and writing. Pied piper summer day camp - the pied piper summer day camp provides recreational, social, and educational enrichment for children ages 4 to 12. The camp runs for eight weeks in july and august and serves up to 125 children at any one time, as per our camp permit. It utilizes a balance of educational and recreational activities that consistently challenge children's minds and bodies. This unique method of learn and play successfully fills the gap between the end and start of the school year. The mission of the pied piper summer day camp is to provide a socially and educationally enriching experience for all our campers in a fun, safe, and supportive environment. Weekly books, in-house events, trips, friday competitions, and final-week showcases are all designed to help campers learn new skills, meet new friends, enjoy a variety of activities, and make life-long memories. In 2014, we enrolled 163 children. We granted 21 50% scholarships courtesy of generous donations by the federation of protestant welfare agencies (fpwa), the dj dream fund, and fritz-rumer-cooke co. , inc. Each week, students in summer camp read a different book exploring different cultures around the world. Each arts project was connected to the theme of the book, enhancing students understanding and appreciation of the book and its message. Students also attended field trips to iconic new york city institutions like the museum of natural history, bronx zoo, and yankee stadium, some for the very first time. Grads and teens - our program also develops the skills of those who have aged out of the program and are at least 13 as volunteer grads (growing responsibly and delivering services); grads serve as teaching and counseling assistants for both the after school program and pied piper summer day camp. Pied piper summer day camp can support up to 10 grads per day, and the after school program can support up to four. The grads program also offers a runway to employment at hartley house as a full-fledged counselor. For school year 2014-2015 and summer camp season 2014, nearly 65% of paid counselor positions were occupied by former grads (16 out of 25). This trajectory exposes hartley house students to role models that reflect their community and illustrate potential despite negative statistics on graduation rates and the compounding effects of poverty on social and emotional health and long-term educational/career success. Holzman's happenings provides cultural excursions around new york city for teen girls to broadway shows, museums, the ballet, concerts, films, and other cultural institutions. The initiative aims to keep teens active and joyfully engaged in their own city. Holzman's happenings is made possible by a generous grant from the julie holzman foundation. Julie holzman is committed to expanding opportunities for young women to experience the great cultural opportunities in new york city. Many of these participants have lived in new york city their whole lives, and would never be able to access these transformative experiences without this vital program.

social work serviceshope (home outreach program for elders) provides comprehensive case management and financial assistance for older adults (60 years+). Hope staffs two dedicated social workers and one part time case manager who work with individuals to help identify their needs and meet their full potential in order to help stabilize them in the community. The part time case worker replaced the previous part time social worker in september, and has helped to increase hopes capacity and streamline client flow as he is bilingual in english and spanish; previously only the hope director was bilingual. Hope supervised two graduate students and one undergraduate student in the 14-15 academic year. Hartley house is accredited by the social security administration (ssa) as an organizational representative payee for hope clients, beginning its formal money management (fmm) component. Hope managed 13 clients as full representative payees in 2014. These clients have now significantly reduced their incidence of elder financial abuse, reduced their debt, prevented their monthly bills from ending up in arrears, and prevented possible evictiondelaying early institutionalization. In addition, 27 clients received informal money management services from assistance with bill payment to budgeting. These skills, along with the other services provided by our social workers, enable the seniors to remain in their homes longer as viable members of the community. By collaborating with other agencies, 20 of these clients received stipendiary assistance to help meet their basic monthly needs. In 2014, hope served a total of 97 mutually exclusive clients, with a monthly average of 75 active clients. Our social workers helped some of our clients enroll into a supplemental needs trust to obtain medicaid benefits and homecare services. Our social workers continue to advocate for clients enrolled in a managed long term care (mltc) plans as it can be a very complex issue. Community social work through the newly developed community social work program, hartley house will employ a general social worker to act as a bridge to help individuals, families, and groups access services and gain knowledge about available resources in their community. We will also deliver direct services to individuals while providing advocacy, education, and social action to empower communities to work for change. This will be done through information & referral, a twice-weekly walk-in-clinic, and periodic workshops for the community. Hartley house is currently seeking a full time general social worker, as the position was piloted part-time by a former staff member. Even as a part-time pilot, in just six months the community social work program logged 37 intake and referral calls. Nearly half were referred as hope clients, and the remaining calls presented with a variety of issues including domestic violence, caregiver support, and housing needs.

community educationadult education - through a combination of collaborative partnerships, the adult education services at hartley house include three programs: the tasc (formerly ged, change as of january 2, 2014), el centro de educacin de trabajadores, and esl classes (through a partnership with the department of education). These programs help adults realize their goals of improving their education, learning english or spanish, developing computer skills. It also helps new immigrants understand their rights or becoming a us citizen. The adult general equivalency diploma (ged) preparation classes are led by two volunteers and they meet twice a week. As many as 15 students receive free instruction in subjects such as math, social studies, english, and science to help them earn their equivalency diplomas. El centro de educacin de trabajadores (el centro) is located at hartley house. El centro is an independent organization partnering with and housed at hartley house. El centro provides assistance to recent immigrants to new york city. Evening classes are offered in english, basic computer skills, and preparation for the ins citizenship exam. With the addition of spanish and mandarin language classes, el centro fosters a friendly community environment that promotes cross-cultural understanding and support. Workshops are offered on topics such as housing rights, access to health care, tax and immigration issues, and low-cost banking options. Hartley house offers free space to the nyc department of education to host five daily english as a second language (esl) classes for up to 250 adults. At least 35 students have received jobs as a result of taking these classes. These programs support hartley houses educational mission to address inequities and foster self-sufficiency by helping individuals thrive and become empowered members of the community. Creative arts a versatile and attentive creative arts program is an essential part of hartley houses various programs and provides an integral service to the larger community. Its goal is to improve and enhance the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of individuals of all ages by providing them with access to private individual art therapy, small group art therapy, and/or group open studio workshops. We believe that art making is beneficial for everyone. Offering individual art therapy sessions to our after school children and hope seniors, creative arts focuses on the creative process of art making rather than learning art techniques. The process involved in artistic self-expression helps people to resolve conflicts and problems, develop interpersonal skills, manage behavior, reduce stress, increase self-esteem and self-awareness, and achieve insight. With the help of their art therapist and art therapy interns, 14 seniors and youth strengthened their identities as artists and developed their visual communication/storytelling skills while dealing with their personal experiences and giving form to the many thoughts and feelings that they may not have had the words to express. For the larger community, open studio workshops were made available. They provided a safe and supportive environment, allowing group members to experiment without the fear of failure. 88 neighbors participated in our open studio classes in 2014. Additionally, hartley house, in collaboration with covenant house, offers monthly evening group art sessions for 15-20 young homeless mothers in transitional housing. Participants are between the ages of 14 and 18 years old and, depending upon the length of their stay at covenant house, may attend these sessions only once or may come back for several sessions. During these sessions at hartley house, these young women are encouraged to express themselves passionately and freely through visual art as well as to explore their own youth, vitality, and creativity in a safe setting separate from their children. Led by a licensed creative arts therapist, the art sessions are an opportunity for hartley house to provide extra therapeutic support in addition to technical artistic instruction. Community partnerships and volunteers - hartley house also fosters important relationships with local arts and social service organizations to enhance program offerings and build a greater sense of community. In fulfillment of its mission, hartley house is a resource and service hub for those who live and work in hells kitchen. Its collaborations and partnerships serve to strengthen that mission. Hartley house works with other settlement houses around the city and is an active member of united neighborhood houses. Hartley house has community partnerships with young adult institute (yai), new york cares, lincoln square neighborhood center, covenant house, federation of protestant welfare agencies (fpwa), west side inter-agency council for the aging (wsiaca), housing conservation coordinators (hcc), ryan chelsea, and henry street settlement. Hartley house is also fortunate to have robust corporate partnerships with local businesses that provide volunteers at hartley house and career days to expose students to the many possibilities for future success. These partners include td bank, mcgraw hill financial, ink48, shake shack, the javits center, hk hospitality group, moodys, and sears. These partners provide career days, mentoring, renovation projects around the house and courtyard, and holiday celebrations. Senior services - for over 25 years, seniors have participated in weekly bingo games held in the hartley house auditorium. Every tuesday, 30-40 neighborhood seniors meet in the theater at hartley house to play bingo, have a cup of coffee, and spend time together sharing news and enjoying each others company. Bingo is purely for entertainment purposes with no exchange of money, and prizes are small sundries and household items. Eleanor's outings, sponsored by the dj mcmanus foundation, chaperones seniors on culturally-focused field-trips (e. G. Broadway shows, museums, the ballet, concerts, films and other cultural institutions) throughout new york city. In 2014, 125 seniors participated in this program. This program aims to keep seniors active and engaged in their own city.