Kingsbridge Heights Community Center Inc

Programs: Early childhood services (ecs) - we served over 500 children under 5 years old and their families, 80% living below the poverty line, providing comprehensive early care and learning in several different program options including: early head start, elny, and pre-k for all. Ecs provides education, health, mental health and special education outreach services under our comprehensive services model. Ehs provides services for pregnant mothers, family child care and home visiting for children and their families up to age 3 (135 families). Elny has family childcare for children ages 3 months to 3 years old and center based preschool for children ages 3 and 4 (338 families). Pre-k for all is center based preschool for 4 years old children (38 families).

adult/clinical services - in 2017, our changing futures program (long term abuse and treatment therapy) provided a total of 1,125 individual direct services. A total of 255 individuals received services, which entailed that 255 families also received services from the program. A total of 1,967 direct therapeutic services were provided in the form of individual therapy, family therapy, group therapy, collateral and in-person therapy. We also provided parenting and esol classes to more than 300 parents and adults.

youth and family services - we served more than 700 students during the summer of 2016-2017 school year through our summer camps, after school, special needs, tween, teen and college direction programs. This includes 248 (182 high school age teen and 66 miche school tweens), 107 middle school students at tech international, 110 high school students at bronx theatre high school, 63 special needs youth and adults in our center based respite programs, 55 kids in our school age after school program and 130 "campers"(k-8th) across center and school based location. In 2017, 85% of our college directions program seniors were accepted and matriculated into college; 75% of them were the first in their family to go to college. 86% of our after school children were eligible for free or reduced lunch. 70% of our 2017 special needs participants came to khcc seven days a week during the school year despite their autism diagnosis and learning challenges. In 2017, two of our youth program participants placed 2nd and 4th in the community board 8 youth committee poetry slam. Two tweens were selected to read their essay about "what after school means to me" at pasesetter annual awards dinner and ceremony at cipriani. One of our high school participants won first place in the department of youth and community development (dycd) recipe rescue cooking competition hosted at the institute for culinary education. One of our tech international sonyc participants was named a yankee youth leader by community board 8.