Government & Community Affairs

Community Association of Progressive Dominicans, Inc.

Laura Acosta,
Executive Director

3940 Broadway,
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10032

Tel: 212-222-3882
Fax: 212-222-7067

Hours: Monday through Thursday:
9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.;
Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Services: The Community Association of Progressive Dominicans, Inc. (ACDP) is a private, not-for-profit, voluntary organization whose mission is to develop and operate programs beneficial to the Upper Manhattan community and its residents and to empower families to remain together and be self-reliant. The ACDP Choices and Community Beacon at I.S. 164 offers academic enhancement, peer counseling, recreational and cultural activities, high school and college preparation, vocational training, substance abuse counseling, health and nutrition, young mother’s group, adults ESL and GED classes, and a summer camp. The goal of the Audubon Ballroom Family Center at ACDP is to improve client functioning and reduce symptoms of mental illness while maintaining clients in their natural environments, supporting family integrity, and providing ongoing support to clients and their families until completion. The Center provides services that include evaluation and assessment; crisis intervention; psychiatric evaluation and medication monitoring; psychosocial education; play therapy; women’s support groups; individual, group, and family psychotherapy; parenting group; and case management services. As part of the comprehensive approach to mental health services, the ACDP Audubon Ballroom Youth Mental Health Project (ABYMHP) provides prevention, consultation, and educational services to address the mental health needs of youth and their families. Appropriate interventions are given to children and their families in order to decrease the incidents of violence and to prevent possible involvement with the Administration for Children's Services (ACS) and the Juvenile Justice system. Experienced workers listen to problems, make an assessment to determine the level of risk involved and provide appropriate intervention and referrals.

African Services Committee, Inc.

Kim Nichols,
Director

429 West 127th Street,
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10027

Tel: 212-222-3882
Fax: 212-222-7067

Website: www.africanservices.org

Hours: Monday through Friday:
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Services: The African Service Committee, Inc. was founded by a group of African refugees to provide resettlement assistance to new African immigrants throughout the New York metropolitan area. The agency provides relief and assistance for diverse ethnic, immigrant, and refugee groups in need of food, housing, medical care, legal service, and other supportive counseling.

Alianza Dominicana, Inc.

Moises Perez,
Executive Director

2410 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10033

Tel: 212-740-1960
Fax: 212-740-1967

Hours: Monday through Friday:
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Services: Alianza Dominicana Inc. is a non-profit community development organization that partners with youth and families and public and private institutions to revitalize economically distressed neighborhoods. Alianza’s mission is to assist children, youth and families to break the cycle of poverty and fulfill their potential as members of the global community. Alianza develops model neighborhood-based initiatives using comprehensive and integrated services, which attend to the multiple needs of children, youth and families in the community. Participants are invited to involve themselves in a wide range of programs and initiatives which include a "Beacon" school-based community center; after school programs; youth employment training services; drop out prevention services; summer day camps; youth-led community service projects; comprehensive HIV/AIDS services; entitlement assistance and advocacy; facilitated enrollment in health plans; drug prevention and treatment programs; mental health counseling and supportive programming; psychotherapy for children and adolescents; day care and home day care services; domestic violence prevention services; home visitation services, foster care and adoption services.

Children's Defense Fund

Donna Lawrence,
Executive Director

420 Lexington Avenue,
Suite 655
New York, NY 10170

Tel: 212-697-2323
Fax: 212-697-0566

Website: www.cdfny.org

Hours: Monday through Friday:
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Services: The mission of the Children's Defense Fund is to leave no child behind and to ensure every child a healthy start, a head start, a fair start, a safe start, and a moral start in life and a successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.

Citizen's Advice Bureau

Carolyn McLaughlin,
Executive Director

178 Bennett Avenue
New York, NY 10040

Tel: 212-923-2599
Fax: 212-923-4329

Hours: Monday through Friday:
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Services: Citizen’s Advice Bureau offers senior citizens assistance with retirement, housing, or any social services issues.

Dominican Women's Development Center

Rosita Romero,
Executive Director

251 Fort Washington Avenue
New York, NY 10033

Tel: 212-740-1929
Fax: 212-740-8352

E-mail: centro@americanairline.com

Hours: Monday through Friday:
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Services: The Dominican Women's Development Center was established to seek solutions to problems affecting Dominican and other Latina women in their daily lives including the difficulties to incorporate into a new culture and a new society, language barriers, unemployment, inadequate salaries, domestic violence, economic barriers and gender discrimination. The Center was created with the goal of contributing to the holistic growth of Latina women in their personal, educational, economic and political aspects. It also promotes the active participation of women in the empowerment of their communities and in questioning issues of gender subordination.

Grosvenor Neighborhood House

Elizabeth Toledo,
Executive Director

176 West 105th Street
New York, NY 10025

Tel: 212-749-8500
Fax: 212-749-4060

Website: www.grosvenorhouse.org

Hours: Monday through Friday:
9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.;
Saturdays: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Services: Grosvenor Neighborhood House is dedicated to increasing the economics and personal self-sufficiency of children, youth, and their families living in the Manhattan Valley area by providing community residents with year round meaningful and effective educational, career readiness, cultural, recreational, and counseling services.

Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement, Inc.

Paul Dunn,
Vice President for Human Services

28-21 Frederick Douglass Boulevard
New York, NY 10039

Tel: 212-491-5280
Fax: 212-281-8102

Hours: Monday through Friday:
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Services: Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement (HCCI) is committed to the holistic revitalization of Harlem by providing economic development opportunities and empowerment of Harlem residents to rebuild their communities. The goals and objectives of HCCI is to provide affordable rental housing and ownership options for various income levels: homeless, relocatee, low to moderate income families/ individuals, and disabled persons; to promote economic development through job training, employment opportunities, referral services, and local commercial revitalization; to teach area residents life skills that bolster self-esteem, enhance self-respect, and promote self-efficiency; to coordinate community youth programming; to provide educational, cultural, athletic and employment opportunities where youth can become constructive members of society and change agents in their community; to coordinate a full-range of comprehensive social and health care service interventions for residents of Central Harlem; to provide housing supportive services, case management, recreational activities, pastoral care, maintenance services, advocacy, education, prevention, and bereavement; and to provide seminars on HIV/AIDS for individuals and families in Harlem living with HIV/AIDS.

Harlem Dowling West Side Center for Children and Family Services

Melba Butler,
Executive Director

2090 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard
New York, NY 10027

Tel: 212-749-3656
Fax: 212-678-1094

Website: www.harlemdowling.org

Hours: Monday through Friday:
8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Services: Harlem Dowling West Side Center for Children and Family Services provides foster care, adoption, preventive services, and related assistance to children and their families to enable them to live in a stable and nurturing environment.

Inwood Community Services, Inc.

Charles Corliss,
Executive Director

651 Academy Street,
3rd Floor
New York, NY 10034

Tel: 212-942-0043
Fax: 212-567-9476

Hours: Monday through Thursday:
9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.;
Friday 9:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Services: Inwood Community Services, Inc. is a not for profit community based organization established in 1979 by a group of concerned community residents. Today, the agency’s programs include counseling, drug rehabilitation, adult literacy, and youth and family services.

New York Urban League

Dennis Walcott,
President

204 West 136th Street
New York, NY 10030

Tel: 212-926-8000
Fax: 212-283-4948

Website: www.nyul.org

Hours: Monday through Friday:
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Services: The mission of the New York Urban League is to seek the elimination of racism, discrimination, and segregation. The League promotes equal opportunity in education, employment, housing, economic development, health, and social welfare by helping individuals, families, and communities to achieve stability and self-reliance.

Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation

Barbara Lowry,
Executive Director

Evan Hess,
Director of Community Organizing

76 Wadsworth Avenue
New York, NY 10033

Tel: 212-822-8300
Fax: 212-928-4180

Website: www.nmic.org

Hours: Monday through Friday:
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Services: For twenty years, Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation (NMIC) has provided services that form a critical link to the overall stability of a rapidly growing and changing low-income community. The housing programs minimize evictions and maximize improvements to the housing stock. Employment and social services give residents needed tools for attaining economic independence and stabilizing their home life. NMIC's client centered programs offer residents a greater voice in the decisions that affect their lives and opportunities. The Community and Tenant Organizing Program assisted the Corporation in allowing disenfranchised residents to make meaningful decisions about their neighborhood's future. Organizers work in problem buildings to help tenants form tenant associations and obtain repairs. The Corporation assists the Washington Heights Community Union by training its members in setting goals to improve the community and developing strategies to meet its goals. The Economic Development Initiative resulted in a developing family day care network, increased access to capital for microentrepreneurs and dedication of funds for training services for neighborhood residents. At NMIC, housing development is a project of community organizing, helping tenants obtain control of the neighborhood's most seriously dilapidated buildings. Since 1990, NMIC has helped tenants of 8 buildings with 160 units purchase and rehabilitate their buildings. NMIC offers free bilingual civil legal services, including legal representation of tenants and tenant associations to secure stable and safe housing accommodations and avoid evictions. Also, the Corporation provides Public Benefits advocacy to ensure that eligible residents receive appropriate public assistance, food stamps, day care placement, and disability payments. The public benefits unit collaborates with the Fordham Law School clinical program to provide a joint legal clinic at NMIC. Social services include crisis intervention and on -going support, assisting formerly homeless families relocate into permanent housing and promoting self sufficiency, domestic violence programs, health and nutrition education and outreach, referral and follow-up services, assistance to residents of NMIC developed buildings, community education on a variety of topics, and advocacy with public and private institutions. NMIC's Manhattan-wide weatherization program improves the housing stock through energy-saving direct investments.

Northern Manhattan Perinatal Partnership

Mario Drummonds,
Executive Director

127 West 127th Street
New York, NY 10027

Tel: 212-665-2600
Fax: 212-665-1842

Hours: Monday through Friday:
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Services: Northern Manhattan Perinatal Partnership is a not for profit organization, comprised of a network of public and private agencies, community residents, health organizations and local businesses. NMPP is committed to enhancing the health and the well being of infants, children and their families in four northern Manhattan communities: Central Harlem, East Harlem, West Harlem and Washington Heights. The agency provides a variety of comprehensive and ongoing programs including bilingual services, healthy start, community health worker, male involvement, job readiness training, consumer involvement and intensive case management.

Phase Piggy Back, Inc.

Abul Karriem Shabazz,
Director

507 West 145th Street
New York, NY 10031

Tel: 212-234-1660
Fax: 212-234-2008

Website: www.phasepiggyback.org

Hours: Monday and Friday:
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.;
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday:
9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Services: Phase Piggy Back, Inc. offers various programs that strive for total community involvement. The Adult Resocialization Unit is a 6 month intensive program providing substance abuse services to adults 18 and older. The Youth Intervention Development Prevention Process assists youth to become assets to the community rather than liabilities. After school services for youth include homework assistance, substance abuse prevention counseling, recreational activities, and cultural enrichment. Project Helping Hand is an outreach unit that helps homeless individuals and their families gain access to health, social, and housing services.

Rena Coa Multi-Service Center

Francine Conde,
Executive Director

1920 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10032

Tel: 212-368-3295
Fax: 212-491-2793

Hours: Monday through Friday:
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Services: Rena Coa Multi Service Center offers various after school programs, senior citizen services, and teen pregnancy awareness.

Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families

Geoffrey Canada,
President

2770 Broadway,
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10025

Tel: 212-866-0700
Fax: 212-932-2965

Website: www.Rheedlen.org

Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday:
7:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.;
Thursday: 7:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Services: The mission of Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families is to improve the lives of poor children in America’s most devastated communities. Established thirty years ago, Rheedlen was the first non-profit organization in New York City to focus exclusive attention to the problem of truancy among the young. For three decades, Rheedlen has been demonstrating the correlation between young children out of school, abuse and neglect, and a later life of dependency.

United Way of New York City

Ralph Dickerson,
President

2 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10016

Tel: 212-251-2500
Fax: 212-696-1039

Website: www.uwnyc.org

Hours: Monday through Friday:
8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Services: United Way of New York City’s predecessor organization, The Greater New York Fund, was founded in 1938 "for the purpose of making one annual citywide financial appeal to organized business and its employees on behalf of private social welfare and health agencies in New York City." For the first time in the City's history there came into being "a united philanthropic movement, supported by all faiths, creeds, and all races." The goal of the Fund was to "assure adequate support for our City’s private agencies, knowing they are essential to the well-being of all who work and all who dwell here." Times have changed since the 1930’s. But the basic mission of United Way of New York City has remained unchanged: bringing people together to address the human care needs in our city. United Way supports a network of the most effective health and human service organizations in the five boroughs. These organizations focus on helping people stay self-reliant and productive through an entire continuum of care. Their services improve the lives of one in two New Yorkers each year. United Way works collaboratively with foundations, corporations, and government to develop comprehensive solutions to complex problems, such as the lack of affordable, quality childcare. The organization administers joint programs that keep at-risk students on track to graduation and that help women with HIV stay healthy and care for their families. United Way monitors funded programs to ensure your donation gets results. United Way makes sure agencies are efficient and effective by providing technical assistance, staff training, help with volunteer recruitment, and more.

West Harlem Group Assistance, Inc.
Oberia D. Dempsey Multi-Service Center

Barbara Howard,
Program Services Coordinator

127 West 127th Street
New York, NY 10027

Tel: 212-749-0353
Fax: 212-633-3696

Hours: Monday through Friday:
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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