For too many New York City children, the absence of informed parents, inadequate health care and poor preparation for school hampers their development, putting them years behind their peers before they even begin the first grade. The families we serve, often led by teenagers or young adults, live under severe stress — with little income or education, in substandard housing and with histories of substance abuse, domestic violence, depression or other mental illness. Our programs offer remarkable records of success — all but eliminating abuse, neglect and avoidable foster-care placement among the thousands of children we serve. The early-childhood programs are grouped into two categories: parenting education and child early intervention. Youth programs are also grouped into two categories: juvenile justice and foster care. All youth programs provide counseling, education, medical and other services to at-risk children and adolescents.
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Ackerman Institute for the Family
Trains the staffs at nonprofits to help parents find new ways to respond to their children’s needs.
Andrew Glover Youth Program
Offers alternatives to jail terms for teenagers living in the Lower East Side and East Harlem.
Association to Benefit Children
Provides pre-school programs, housing and medical services and crisis intervention to 3,000 families with children in East Harlem, most of whom suffer from mental and physical disabilities.
Bloomingdale Family Program
Provides a Head Start program that caters to students with learning disabilities or emotional problems.
Brazelton Touchpoints Center
Trains staff to help parents handle predictable, disruptive moments in their child’s development.
BronxWorks
Operates a job-training program, a program to promote college attendance by disconnected youth and an early-childhood center; provides immigration services; and runs two Single Stop sites.
Brooklyn Kindergarten Society
Offers a full-day pre-school program in central Brooklyn that relies on social workers to involve parents.
CASES
Provides an alternative to jail for young offenders, minimizing recidivism rates by encouraging academic skill building.
Catholic Charities Neighborhood Services, Inc.
Operates 22 early learning centers for low-income, mostly immigrant preschoolers in Brooklyn and Queens, including a Robin Hood funded full-day Head Start program in Sunset Park.
Center for Court Innovation
Partners with local community courts to reduce recidivism of formerly incarcerated teenagers; help school dropouts get their G.E.D.; and help at-risk youth avoid committing crimes through job placement and other services.
Center For Family Life In Sunset Park
Provides after-school programs, employment assistance, family counseling and emergency food, and runs a full-service Single Stop site.
The Child Center of New York
Offers mental health and related services (including a parent-education program to reduce child abuse) to 10,000 children and parents and runs Single Stop programs at two sites.
Children's Defense Fund–New York
Works to improve access to healthcare and child care for poor children.
The Children's Village, Inc.
Counsels and mentors young adults after they grow too old to remain eligible for subsidized foster care.
City University of New York—at Home in College
Implements a pilot program to improve college retention and graduation rates among 300 at-risk students, using intensive remediation before matriculation and mentoring and counseling for a year after matriculation.
College and Community Fellowship
Provides academic, social and financial supports for formerly incarcerated women working toward college degrees.
Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation
Combines G.E.D. preparation with case-management services to help low-income young adults in Brooklyn enter college or full-time employment.
Dominican Sisters Family Health Service
Offers adult education and day care to immigrant mothers, mostly Mexican, in the South Bronx.
The Door (EPOCH Program)
Educates out-of-school, unemployed young adults lacking a high school credential, and provides them career-development services.
Early Childhood Center at Einstein College of Medicine
Evaluates and treats young children with developmental delays and severe behavioral problems.
East Side Settlement House
Helps young adults in the South Bronx earn their G.E.D., enroll and succeed in college or find and retain employment.
Episcopal Social Services
Fosters healthy child development through Early Head Start by providing low-income mothers and their infants and toddlers center-based and home-based services, including work opportunities for parents.
Exalt
Reduces recidivism among criminally involved young adults by training them to seek employment and placing them in internships.
Federation Employment Guidance Services (F.E.G.S.)
Provides pre-G.E.D. and G.E.D. preparation, job and college placement and retention support services to at-risk Bronx teens and young adults who have been disconnected from school and work.
Goddard Riverside Community Center
Implements a pilot program of intensive one-on-one counseling to help low-income, disadvantaged teens and young adults enter and stay in college.
Good Shepherd Services
Runs foster-care programs, adolescent residences for youth aging out of subsidized foster care, supervised independent living residences and two Single Stop sites, one in the Bronx and one in Brooklyn.
Graham Windham
Provides foster-care, abuse-prevention, adoption and day care services for children and families in Brooklyn, Harlem, and the Bronx.
Harlem Children's Zone
Runs educational, social-service and health programs in Harlem, including three full-service Single Stop sites.
Harlem Health Promotion Center
Operates a mobile health team that provides workshops, individualized counseling , testing for S.T.D.s and follow-up medical care for young adults and their partners.
Hetrick-Martin Institute, Inc.
Prepares gay, lesbian and transgender youth for self-sufficiency by providing medical, education, career development, and H.I.V. prevention services.
Inwood House
Offers transitional residence and services to pregnant, homeless teenagers.
Jane Barker Child Advocacy Center / Safe Horizon
Runs a model one-stop program to help sexually and physically abused children.
Kingsborough Community College
Prevents at-risk freshmen from dropping out of community college by creating small groups that study together and receive tutoring, counseling and financial support.
Lawyers for Children
Prevents young adults who have grown too old to remain eligible for government-subsidized foster care from becoming homeless or incarcerated.
Little Sisters Of The Assumption Family Health Service
Provides bilingual and early-childhood development programs to isolated Mexican families in East Harlem.
MDRC
Implements and evaluates a program of financial incentives to help students at two of the City University’s community colleges to stay in school and earn their associate’s degrees.
Mt. Hope Housing Company Inc.
Helps young adults in the South Bronx to pass the G.E.D. exam, enroll in college or find employment.
New Settlement Apartments
Helps low-income young adults in the South Bronx gain and retain employment or enter and stay in college.
New York City Justice Corps
Helps criminally involved young adults in the South Bronx: prepare resumes; develop interview and other pre-employment skills; pass the G.E.D. exam; and acquire paid internships.
Northside Center for Child Development
Provides innovative psycho-educational services to children with emotional problems or development delays.
Queens Community House
Helps at risk, low-income young adults in Queens enroll and succeed in college.
SCO Family of Services
Helps families in crisis, running two parenting-education programs (Nurse Family Partnership and Parent-Child Home Program) and a Single Stop site.
Stanley M. Isaacs Center
Trains young adults 17 to 24 years-old in hard and soft skills and provides job placement and two years of follow-up help in keeping their jobs.
Staten Island Mental Health Society
Provides comprehensive mental health services and parenting support to families with children enrolled in prekindergarten to ensure children enter school ready to learn.
Turning Point
Helps high school dropouts in Sunset Park pass the G.E.D. exam, enroll them in college or find employment.
University Settlement Society of New York
Provides comprehensive early education, parenting services and developmental interventions for children under age five.
Visiting Nurse Service of New York
Implements the Nurse Family Partnership, a parenting-education program for low-income, first-time mothers in the South Bronx.
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