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Causes: Child Day Care, Children & Youth
Mission: The shorefront y builds community, strengthens families and empowers individuals to achieve their potentials and enhance the quality of their lives. Our programs and services reflect the richness of the shorefront y's jewish community center and settlement house traditions. Deeply rooted in jewish traditions and values and committed to fostering jewish continuity and civic engagement, we reach out to and serve people of all backgrounds and abilities throughout their life spans. We provide a wide range of exemplary educational, recreational, preventive and rehabilitative health, vocational, cultural, citizenship, jewish identity-building, and human service programs to meet the evolving strengths, needs and interests of the rich mosaic of people in southern brooklyn. The shorefront y maximizes the impact of its resources and expertise by forming partnerships and alliances with other organizations, government agencies and philanthropic institutions that share our commitments and values.
Programs: Adult educational & vocational services - provides classes, counseling and other supports to help adult immigrants learn english as a second language. The shorefront y targets immigrants with the greatest need for literacy services, including adults with learning disabilities and/or other special needs. In addition we serve an unemployed, underemployed, or not working full-time client group of diverse immigrants from the former soviet union, latin america, pakistan, china, and other countries. We also provide vocational counseling and job placement. In addition we provide assistance to immigrants eligible and applying for us citizenship.
early childhood program - the y runs an infant toddler day care, universal pre kindergarten preschool program, nursery program and kinder camp for about 80 children, ages 6 months to 5. 5 years, year-round. The program offers early drop off and extended care options to accommodate working parents and have at least one russian speaking teacher in each class to best suit our community demographic. The shorefront y is fully licensed to provide these services by the nycdhmh during the school year and the summer.
health & physical education - the shorefront y lenny krayzelburg swim academy provides an innovative and effective method of individual and small group swim instruction for toddlers, school age children and teens which helps them learn to swim well and to be water safe. Once they complete our curriculum, they transition into our four tiered swim team program which helps develop their skills into a source of lifelong fitness. We serve approximately 600 children in lksa and 90 on the swim team at this time. In addition, the y offers athletic programs to its members. The facilities include a pool, sauna, fitness center and fee for service sports classes.