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.
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.
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.
Columbia University Population Research Center (CPRC)
In partnership with Columbia University, Robin Hood is designing a superior poverty standard that takes into account not only income (as does the official federal standard) but also material deprivations (like hunger, health care and housing); the project will also conduct frequent Internet-based surveys of a fixed panel of over 1,000 N.Y.C. households to paint a picture of N.Y.C. poverty of now nearly unimaginable detail.
The Door (EPOCH Program)
Educates out-of-school, unemployed young adults lacking a high school credential, and provides them career-development services.
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 program of one-on-one counseling to help low-income, disadvantaged teens and young adults enter and stay in college; runs a Single Stop site; and manages the citywide initiative to swiftly place adults living on the streets in Manhattan into permanent housing.
New Community College - CUNY
Opening in 2012, this is CUNY’s first new campus in over 40 years and is being launched with the aim of significantly increasing student persistence and graduation rates.
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.
Opportunities For A Better Tomorrow
Trains workers in Brooklyn to take jobs as entry-level office workers and as pharmacy clerks and technicians.
Queens Community House
Helps at risk, low-income young adults in Queens enroll and succeed in college.
Safe Horizon
Helps homeless youth gain access to: apartments with supportive services, medical (including mental health) treatments; and government entitlements.
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.
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