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Compiled by Phenix Kim Monday, January 22, 2024 |
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Opinion: Investing in the Bronx’s next generation
The road to success isn’t easily traveled alone. Most successful people attribute their achievements to the guidance and mentorship they received from others along the way. For young people, access to mentorship is even more crucial when only one in three youth nationwide has access to a mentor, according to Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.
Mentorship is imperative to youth development, and positively affects young people now and later in life. As a young woman growing up on Fordham Road in the Bronx, I had many mentors, role models and positive figures who played a crucial role in helping me accomplish my goals. These individuals provided me with visible and positive examples to look up to, and I can truly say that their guidance and support were pivotal in shaping my life.
My first-hand experience of mentorship led me to dedicate my career in service to young people. Serving within youth-serving organizations and programs inevitably led me to Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City.
Read more here. – Alicia Guevara |
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Alicia Guevara is the CEO of Big Brothers Big Sister of New York City. Courtesy of Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City |
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Breaking Ground, New York’s largest supportive housing developer, will be partnering with NewYork-Presbyterian to bring their Connect to Care model to the NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center.The goal of the one-year pilot program is to provide resources and support to some of the most vulnerable members of the community. Breaking Ground has hired and trained an outreach team that will have access to the Emergency department and canvass the area on Broadway from 165th to 170th Streets to connect with homeless individuals and provide them with much needed resources including housing. Outreach workers will be available 24/7 and work in partnership with various NewYork-Presbyterian teams including community affairs, emergency department, security, social work, and nursing. Breaking Ground operates nearly 4,000 units of housing across New York City, along with housing in upstate New York and Connecticut. Through its Street to Home outreach program and transitional housing resources, Breaking Ground helps people get, and stay, on the path to a permanent home.
NYC youth justice organization, Avenues for Justice, kicked off the year with a celebration of “45 Years of Second Chances” and the announcement of Co-Founder and Executive Director, Angel Rodriguez, being honored with the Juvenile Law Center’s 2024 Annual Leadership Prize on May 8th in Philadelphia. Awarded to individuals who are fighting for the rights and well-being of youth in the child welfare and justice systems, Angel is one of four honorees including Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative, Elizabeth Scott of Columbia Law School, and Lauren Steinberg of Temple University. Angel’s and AFJ’s mission focuses specifically on the rehabilitation of youths aged 13-24 years old who are battling the NYC criminal justice system and life post-arrest. Co-founded by Rodriguez and longtime friend and Lower East Side resident Robert Siegal, Avenues for Justice has spent the last 45 years supporting NYC’s Black and brown communities and providing a path forward to success for its young people.
The New York City Workforce Development Fund announced $910,000 in new grants to six nonprofits that are working to improve access to high-quality jobs for low-income New Yorkers and to support research and advocacy to inform workforce policies, programs, and investment. This new round of grants from Fund, a funder collaborative housed at The New York Community Trust, also supports efforts to shape the city’s workforce agenda, unlock more public funding, and develop protections and policies for workers. Grantees include : The Center for New York City Affairs at The New School, The Center for an Urban Future, The Fiorello H. LaGuardia Community College, The New York Association of Training and Employment Professionals, The New York Early Childhood Professional Development Institute and Project Renewal. Established in 2001, the New York City Workforce Development Fund works to promote an effective and coherent workforce development system in New York City.
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Department of Homeless Services: The department awarded $8,209,799 to Broken But Not Destroyed Corp. for a city sanctuary facility. |
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A message from City & State |
Join HELP USA’s Annual Symposium - Upstream 2024: Front-line Solutions to Homelessness on January 31, 2024!
We’re pleased to partner with HELP USA to host a day-long symposium discussing solutions to homelessness, specifically identifying short-term tactics and long-range strategies to address the impact of migrant populations on NYC’s homeless systems.
Featured speakers include: Kim Hopper, PhD, Professor of Clinical, Sociomedical Sciences & Adjunct, Professor, School of Law, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health; New York City Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Anne Williams-Isom; Aqueelah Winston, DHS Deputy Commissioner of Intake and Assessment; Richard R. Buery, Jr., Chief Executive Officer, Robin Hood; Dennis Culhane, Professor, Dana and Andrew Stone Chair in Social Policy, Co-Principal Investigator, Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy; Joshua Goldfein, Staff Attorney, The Legal Aid Society; Jerry Heaney, VP of Transitional Housing, Samaritan Daytop Village; Camila Gripp, Research, Evaluation, and Learning Officer, Mother Cabrini Health Foundation; and more.
Check out the agenda & register today! |
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The New York City agency that conducts child welfare investigations says it will soon start informing all parents under investigation about their legal rights, including calling a lawyer and denying case workers permission to enter their homes. Parents will be advised at the onset of an inquiry, according to the Administration for Children's Services (Gothamist) … New climate projections: New York City’s sea levels will rise by more than a foot in the 2030s, when the city is also expected to be up to 10% rainier and as much as 4.7 degrees hotter (The City) … New polling of New Yorkers reveals that while most support the city’s ‘right to shelter,’ there is wide-ranging ambivalence about the city’s sheltering of its burgeoning migrant population, including on such basic questions as whether the city should continue helping the newcomers settle and for how long (Gothamist) … New York may soon join a growing number of states seeking to incorporate climate change into school lesson plans (New York Times) … Mayor Eric Adams launched a last-minute push to dissuade City Council members from overriding his vetoes to a pair of bills on NYPD transparency and solitary confinement (Gothamist) … Eric Adams boosted pay for special ed pre-K teachers, now they face deep cuts (Chalkbeat)
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A message from City & State |
Join us at Nonprofit BoardCon on February 28th at Hebrew Union College!
On February 28th, NYN Media will host Nonprofit BoardCon bringing together Executive Leadership and Board Members from nonprofits across New York to learn how collaboration between board and staff is essential to organizational success.
Hear speakers from: LSA Family Health Service; Arts in Education Roundtable; AHRC NYC; New York State Attorney General's Charities Bureau; HANAC; Graham Windham; Access Psychology Foundation; A Better Chance; Chinese-American Planning Council, Inc.; Astor Services; Kings Against Violence Initiative; VISIONS/Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired; Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts; Nonprofit Westchester; Volunteer NY; Pro Bono Partnership; and more!
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To Nequan Mclean, president of Brooklyn's Community School District 16 MOVING ON: John Burke joins VNS health as executive vice president and chief of health plans
Have a birthday, career change, birth or death to announce? Email Phenix Kim at pkim@govexec.com. |
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