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Causes: Human Services, Neighborhood Centers
Programs: Health & wellness: our health and wellness programs include a licensed mental health clinic and a primary healthcare facility, school-based mental health programming in several local school sites, vocational rehabilitation services, and personalized recovery oriented services. Our neighborhood resource and parent center provides programs including benefits screening and health enrollments. We also provide comprehensive senior services including meal on wheels, a senior center and senior companions volunteer program, and a naturally occurring retirement community (norc). In fy'17 we served 11,847 participants in these programs.
shelter and transitional supportive housing: our four homeless shelters have pioneered innovative approaches to providing effective services that are characterized by an individualized approach to working with our clients. Our shelters include the urban family center, the first to provide apartment-style shelter to homeless families; helen's house, which offers efficiency apartments and support services for single mothers with young children; the third street shelter for single women with mental health diagnoses; and a shelter for survivors of domestic violence and their children. In fy'17 we served 1,185 participants in these programs.
education & employment training: program services in this area operate year-round and served 8,455 participants in fy'17. Programs include comprehensive daycare for children ages 2-4, afterschool and camp programming for children 5-16, high school choice support, college access and retention services, job training for young adults and adults, job placement and retention services for low-income unemployed and underemployed job seekers, internship programs, english language learner programs and summer employment programming. Program structures vary and include walk-in services and programs by cohort.
arts center: in fy17, the abrons arts center attracted 21,449 audience members from across the city, as well as national and international art enthusiasts. A thriving artist-in-residence program and our on-site engagement programming provided multi-disciplinary classes in music, dance, theater, and the visual arts to 1,298 children and adults of ages and skill levels. Through our long-established collaboration with the nyc department of education, we offered high quality arts classes by professional teaching artists at over 20 public schools across the city, reaching 1685 students.