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According to the Big Bang Theory of Government, <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong><br />
State’s Budget was scheduled to explode on <strong>April</strong> 1st with the start<br />
of a new <strong>2010</strong>-2011 Fiscal Year. Like an out-of-control tour bus<br />
packed with screaming teachers, taxpayers, legislators and Medicaid<br />
recipients, <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>’s $137 billion annual budget was hurtling<br />
towards an open and unbridgeable $9 billion hole in the highway.<br />
By the time you read this, <strong>April</strong> 1st will have come and<br />
gone. And, it seems unlikely that the budget time bomb will have<br />
actually gone off – at least yet. As we went to press, the chances<br />
of any budget agreement by the Governor, Senate and Assembly<br />
still seemed remote. Most observers were confident that<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> State would once again manage to turn back the<br />
clock on its fiscal obligations. That clock, however, was<br />
still ticking.<br />
When the ticking stops, it could signal very, very<br />
bad things for many nonprofit human service providers<br />
and the people they serve. Since our first look in<br />
February (“Death by a Thousand Cuts”), the Governor’s<br />
Executive Budget proposal – which featured $4.5 billion<br />
in spending cuts -- has grown only more frightening.<br />
In part, this is because providers, advocates and local<br />
government officials have recognized the actual impact of<br />
many previously less-than-obvious budget cuts. Several of<br />
these are particularly devastating for <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City, including:<br />
• A $65 million cut to state support for the City’s adult<br />
homeless shelters;<br />
• A $25 million reallocation of Title XX funds that could<br />
close as many as 100 senior centers;<br />
• A $50 million reduction in available child care funding;<br />
and,<br />
• The complete elimination of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City’s $328 million<br />
in State revenue sharing as part of a $1.3 billion total reduction<br />
in State aid, which Mayor Bloomberg has indicated will<br />
trigger an extensive series of “contingency budget” service<br />
cuts.<br />
“Everywhere you look there are holes,” says Susan Stamler, Director<br />
of Policy and Advocacy at United Neighborhood Houses.<br />
At the same time, the big budget gap has appeared to grow<br />
even deeper over the past two months, due to the apparent evaporation<br />
of several key funding sources on which the Governor’s plan<br />
rests. These included the “soda tax”, which accounted for $465<br />
million in revenues for FY<strong>2010</strong>-2011 and an ongoing $1 billion<br />
annually thereafter, a $1 per pack cigarette tax ($210 million),<br />
fees associated with the sale of wine<br />
in grocery stores ($253 million) and a<br />
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22nd, the State Senate underscored<br />
the shakiness of these assumptions<br />
when it rejected this entire package<br />
of revenues in its “one house” budget<br />
resolution.<br />
“If the legislature doesn’t approve<br />
these, that is another $1 billion<br />
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EDITORIAL<br />
Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center<br />
About<br />
Elizabeth Seton<br />
Pediatric Center’s<br />
Home Care Program<br />
The Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center was<br />
established in 1988 by the Sisters of Charity.<br />
We provide comprehensive rehabilitative care<br />
for children with a wide range of medical<br />
conditions and disabilities. All of our programs<br />
are centered on our children and their families,<br />
respecting individual cultural beliefs and<br />
practices. The Center has developed an<br />
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Who Is Eligible<br />
For Long Term<br />
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Children who have extended care needs that<br />
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term care facility and want to live at home are<br />
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• Children with special needs such as<br />
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• Tube feedings<br />
• Special skin care<br />
• Medication injections<br />
• Mental Disability<br />
Children with multiple care needs and<br />
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Children whose health status is apt to<br />
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Children whose health or functional status<br />
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Children with a poor prognosis for<br />
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Service Areas Ages Served<br />
* Manhattan Birth to 21 years<br />
* Queens Payment Sources<br />
* Brooklyn Medicaid Medicare<br />
* Bronx Private Insurance<br />
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Reality Check: Show Us the Revenue<br />
Faced with a $9-10 billion budget gap, it is time for <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> State to<br />
get real about raising additional revenues. While it seems clear that there<br />
will have to be cuts to state spending, it is ludicrous for the legislature to think<br />
they can balance the budget using only one side of the income statement.<br />
Governor Paterson deserves credit for his proposal to create a “soda<br />
tax” that would raise $1 billion annually going forward while also offering significant<br />
public health benefits. The same goes for increased cigarette taxes.<br />
The Senate’s rejection of these revenues while simultaneously<br />
restoring critical budget cuts seems less than helpful.<br />
As the final section of our cover article “Budget Bombshell” outlines,<br />
there are additional tax and revenue proposals which should be explored.<br />
Fiscal Policy Institute’s suggested temporary 1% personal income tax<br />
surcharge on households earning over $1 million makes sense. So does its<br />
“Wall Street Helps Main Street” package of proposals which would seek<br />
additional revenues at a time when Security Industry Association member<br />
firms are making record profits.<br />
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However, I was disappointed that the perspectives of any of the actual people using the<br />
system weren’t included. It would be great to hear whether parents, foster parents or youth<br />
thought ACS had accurately captured agency performance.<br />
Sincerely,<br />
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OMIG “Extortion” is Subject<br />
of Senate Hearing<br />
“Extortion” is how NYS Senator Craig<br />
Johnson (D-Nassau) described the audit and<br />
collection practices of the Office of the Medicaid<br />
Inspector General (OMIG) in response<br />
to horror stories from healthcare providers.<br />
The comments came at a March 17th hearing<br />
by the Senate’s Committee on Investigations<br />
and Government Operations, which<br />
Johnson chairs.<br />
During the course of the day-long hearing,<br />
the Committee heard from John J. Foley,<br />
Deputy Medicaid Inspector General for<br />
Audit, who faced tough questions regarding<br />
various aspects of the OMIG’s operations,<br />
including its aggressive audit protocols, burdensome<br />
demands for documentation, the<br />
attitudes and qualifications of its staff, and<br />
its approach to collecting audit recoupments,<br />
which Johnson described as “shaking everybody<br />
down.”<br />
Foley was followed by two healthcare<br />
provider executives who described their own<br />
experiences in dealing with OMIG auditors.<br />
John Haley described how <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> Diagnostic<br />
Center, Inc. had been forced to close<br />
after OMIG sought recoupment of more than<br />
$3 million in payments for same day clinic<br />
visits which allegedly should have been provided<br />
by an inpatient rehabilitation service,<br />
despite what Haley described as prior written<br />
approval for the program of services from the<br />
Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse<br />
Treatment Services (OASAS). Haley indicated<br />
that the final decision to close came as<br />
OMIG moved to “100% withhold” of current<br />
Medicaid payments as NYDC continued to<br />
fight the audit finding.<br />
Bruce Peckman, Chief Operating Officer<br />
of Highfield Gardens Care Center of Great<br />
Neck, related three separate audit experiences<br />
with OMIG. One involved a base year rate<br />
NYCON Extends Deadline<br />
for SCF Grant Applications<br />
The <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> Council of <strong>Nonprofit</strong>s,<br />
Inc. (NYCON) is extending the application<br />
deadline for its Strengthening Communities<br />
Fund (SCF) grants to <strong>April</strong> 14th.<br />
NYCON has received a nationally<br />
competitive $1,000,000, two-year SCF<br />
stimulus grant and will award $600,000<br />
of the grant to community and faith-based<br />
nonprofits serving low-income individuals<br />
in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx who<br />
are providing services that are vital to the<br />
economic recovery efforts.<br />
The SCF Program is comprised of two<br />
components. NYCON will provide access to<br />
and scholarships for free training, access to<br />
an online learning community, and consulting<br />
support to 80 community and faith-based<br />
organizations. NYCON is collaborating with<br />
three <strong>Nonprofit</strong> Training Partners including<br />
the Women’s Center for Education and Career<br />
Advancement, the Support Center for<br />
<strong>Nonprofit</strong> Management and the <strong>Nonprofit</strong><br />
Coordinating Committee of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>. The<br />
SCF program will offer an extraordinarily<br />
POINT NEWS OF VIEW<br />
audit going all the way back<br />
to 1990 when the facility was<br />
under prior ownership which<br />
would have ultimately translated<br />
into a recoupment claim<br />
of more than $30 million. According<br />
to Peckman, the facility<br />
was ultimately forced to settle<br />
for $853,000, despite strongly<br />
disagreeing with the finding,<br />
after the OMIG had already<br />
withheld $800,000 in current<br />
Medicaid payments and the<br />
threat of significantly higher<br />
recoupment had negatively impacted<br />
the agency’s ability to<br />
obtain credit. Peckman went<br />
on to describe two other subsequent<br />
interactions in which<br />
OMIG staff cited documentation<br />
requirements not included<br />
in regulation and used the threat<br />
of lengthy and expensive legal<br />
action as a reason to settle an<br />
audit claim.<br />
“Providers are living in fear today,” said<br />
Johnson, who noted that many other providers<br />
had been reluctant to testify publicly about<br />
their experiences with OMIG. He cited the<br />
experience of Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric<br />
Center, which had won a decision overturning<br />
the OMIG’s audit finding after appealing<br />
to an Administrative Law Judge. Soon<br />
after, said Johnson, the agency had received<br />
a new audit notification letter. And, on February<br />
17th, only two days after Johnson had<br />
questioned OMIG James Sheehan publicly as<br />
to why MJGC had not been repaid the monies<br />
withheld by OMIG, the agency reportedly<br />
received another letter notifying them that<br />
the audit parameters were being expanded.<br />
comprehensive range of free training opportunities<br />
to meet the needs, interests, and<br />
goals of eligible secular and faith-based organizations<br />
who participate in this program.<br />
Under the second component, these<br />
80 program participants will be able to<br />
compete to receive a grant ranging from<br />
$10,000 to $25,000 and receive 50 hours<br />
of free technical assistance. Both the funding<br />
awards and technical assistance are designed<br />
to build organizational capacity. Approximately<br />
30 community and faith-based<br />
organizations will be awarded financial and<br />
technical assistance and these organizations<br />
will be known as “Project Partners.”<br />
Applications will be accepted during<br />
two competitive funding rounds that will<br />
take place in the Spring and Fall of <strong>2010</strong>.<br />
The Spring <strong>2010</strong> SCF applications are due<br />
<strong>April</strong> 14, <strong>2010</strong>. Questions about the SCF<br />
program and application should be director<br />
to Program Manager, Jennifer Lockwood<br />
at 1-800-515-5012 ext. 152 or jlockwood@<br />
nycon.org.<br />
More OMIG! Senate Republicans Urge<br />
Higher Medicaid Fraud Recovery Targets<br />
The <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> State Senate Republican Task Force on Medicaid Fraud conducted<br />
a public forum in Albany last month to urge stronger efforts to combat waste and abuse<br />
in the program. The Task Force is calling for even higher targets for Medicaid fraud and<br />
abuse recoveries by the Office of the Medicaid Inspector General (OMIG).<br />
In February, Governor Paterson’s Executive Budget proposed to increase the OMIG’s<br />
recovery target for FY<strong>2010</strong>-2011 by $300 million to $1.2 billion in State funds – an estimated<br />
$3.0 to $4.5 billion in all-funds recoveries. The Republican Task Force believes<br />
that the target should be even higher and has called for another $300 million increase<br />
– translating into an all-funds recoupment target of between $3.6 to $5.4 billion.<br />
“There is no excuse for tolerating any fraud in a program that is the fastest-growing<br />
and largest single component of state and county budgets,” said Senate Republican<br />
Leader Dean Skelos.<br />
“Medicaid costs <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> State taxpayers a billion dollars per week,” said Senator<br />
Kemp Hannon who chairs the Task Force. “This means it is costing taxpayers over fiftytwo<br />
billion dollars per year.”<br />
The Task Force estimated that as much as $5 billion of the State’s total $52.5 billion<br />
in Medicaid expenditures could be “fraud in the system”. Critics of the system frequently<br />
cite traditional – if questionable -- estimates that fraud accounts for 10% of all healthcare<br />
expenditures (See: “OMIG and the Urban Legend of 10% Medicaid Fraud”, NYNP March<br />
<strong>2010</strong>.)<br />
“This looks like a clear example of retaliation<br />
and retribution,” said Johnson.<br />
Foley indicated that there were several<br />
reasons why, under OMIG’s process for selecting<br />
audit candidates, Metropolitan Jewish<br />
might have been selected for audits of<br />
additional Medicaid services. He stressed<br />
that any provider with concerns over the behavior<br />
of OMIG auditors should contact him<br />
directly.
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NEWS<br />
Advocates Express Concern over Westchester Cuts<br />
Westchester providers and advocates<br />
are concerned about how new County Executive<br />
Rob Astorino’s first round of budget<br />
cuts will play out – and what it may<br />
portend for the next four years. As we<br />
went to press, they were hoping to share<br />
those concerns directly with Astorino at a<br />
meeting scheduled for March 19th.<br />
On March 9th, Astorino announced<br />
$16 million of cuts to current year programs<br />
as the first step towards closing<br />
what is estimated to be a $166 million<br />
annual deficit. Several aspects of the<br />
planned cuts seem clear. Others, including<br />
cuts to Community Optional Preventive<br />
Services (COPS) and family shelter<br />
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programs, had yet to be finalized.<br />
“Thirty-seven percent of these reductions come<br />
out of the Department of Social Services and most of<br />
that is services for children,” says Cora Greenberg,<br />
Executive Director of the Westchester Children’s Association.<br />
“The County Executive has said that layoffs<br />
are a last resort. We’d like to think that cutting<br />
services for children should be the last resort.”<br />
Of the $5.8 million in social service budget<br />
cuts, the largest portion, $3.3 million, comes from<br />
projected savings due to reductions in the County’s<br />
foster care census and/or the placement of children<br />
in less restrictive and therefore less expensive levels<br />
of care.<br />
“There is no reduction in services to kids in<br />
care,” says DSS Commissioner Kevin Mahon. “This<br />
is a good story, a great story. A year and a half ago<br />
we started looking at our kids in care and how we<br />
could provide better services locally so we could either<br />
get them home faster or step them down faster.”<br />
Greenberg appreciates the success of this effort<br />
but differs as to what to do with the savings from<br />
having fewer young people in care. “If you can save<br />
$3.3 million in foster care, you should be plowing<br />
that money back into services,” she says. “Where are<br />
these kids going Just because they are leaving care<br />
doesn’t mean they don’t need services to keep them<br />
safe. We have to do better than that.”<br />
The second major area of savings is in child care<br />
subsidies where Astorino plans to reduce expenditures<br />
by $1.5 million. The savings will come from<br />
three areas – reducing a “scholarship” program that<br />
provides subsidies to families with income exceeding<br />
200 percent of the poverty level, increasing parent<br />
co-pays for families with income between 100%<br />
and 200% of poverty, and ending new admissions to<br />
the Title XX child care program.<br />
“This is a level of subsidy not available anyplace<br />
else,” says County spokesperson Ned McCormack of<br />
the “scholarship” program. “We are coming back to<br />
the mandated targets.”<br />
Mahon stated that the increase in parent copay<br />
from 15% to 20% would have varying impact<br />
on families depending on where they fell within the<br />
100%-200% of poverty income bracket. He estimated<br />
that the maximum increase for a family of three<br />
would be $80 per month, bringing total monthly parent<br />
fees to just under $300. “And, it is for families,”<br />
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he emphasized. “If you have two or three children,<br />
you only pay once.”<br />
The County plans to get $750,000 in savings<br />
through reduction in expenditures for family<br />
shelters. “We don’t have that many people<br />
in our shelters,” says Mahon. “We have a vacancy<br />
factor that will allow us to reduce costs.” Mahon<br />
indicated that the County would be meeting with<br />
providers to go over its estimates of how reduced<br />
occupancy can reduce contractual expenses.<br />
Finally, the County is looking to its Community<br />
Optional Preventive Services (COPS) programs<br />
for an estimated $272,000 in County taxlevy<br />
savings. “These are optional programs. By<br />
definition, these programs serve low risk kids,”<br />
says Mahon.<br />
However, Mahon says that no final decision<br />
have been made on how or where cuts to COPS<br />
programs will be made, despite the fact that individual<br />
programs received letters outlining their<br />
budget reductions. “They went with a number and<br />
they were supposed to react to the department,”<br />
says Mahon. “We have a meeting next week to<br />
talk about the impact. We are clearly not going<br />
to put ourselves in a position where we bring kids<br />
back into care. We just want to make sure we understand<br />
totally what each one of these programs<br />
does and the impact. We have time and we want<br />
to do this right.”<br />
Greenberg argues that cuts to COPS programs<br />
are counterproductive on a number of<br />
fronts. From a cost benefit standpoint, she stresses<br />
that the County will be giving up far more<br />
than it saves. Westchester pays only 35 cents on<br />
the dollar for COPS programs. Consequently,<br />
the $272,000 cut will cost the County twice that<br />
amount in Federal and State aid.<br />
And, she says, these services make sense programmatically.<br />
“These are the programs that keep<br />
kids safely at home. One program, for example,<br />
keeps young children out of psychiatric hospitals.<br />
If you don’t have alternatives to detention, PINS<br />
diversions and these other things, you are going<br />
to wind up with kids in jail or in much higherend<br />
residential placement. That is what these programs<br />
are preventing.”<br />
Greenberg was be one of several advocates<br />
and providers who were to meet with County Executive<br />
Astorino to express these concerns at the<br />
March 19th meeting.<br />
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a dozen individuals, allowing them to carry guns<br />
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“The individuals behind the Yonkers SPCA<br />
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Yonkers SPCA, headquartered at 976 McLean<br />
Avenue in Yonkers, was incorporated in 1912 but<br />
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operations in decades, according to the AG. The<br />
SPCA of Westchester had expanded its territory to<br />
include Yonkers and has provided and continues to<br />
provide prevention of cruelty to animal services to<br />
the city. In 2007, despite the fact that the SPCA<br />
of Westchester was handling animal cruelty cases<br />
in Yonkers, Sean Collins, 43, of Millerton, resurrected<br />
the long-dormant Yonkers SPCA and established<br />
a new Board of Directors without the proper<br />
authority. The newly reconstituted Yonkers SPCA<br />
conducted no law enforcement activities.<br />
Nevertheless, the organization conferred<br />
peace officer status to at least 16 members over<br />
the past three years, essentially allowing them to<br />
carry guns while not doing any activities relating<br />
to the prevention of cruelty to animals. By<br />
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all such enforcement across the county and has<br />
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ACS Plans Contract Extensions as<br />
Providers Await RFP Results<br />
NYC’s Administration for Children’s<br />
Services is moving to extend existing foster<br />
care and preventive services contracts<br />
as providers continue to await the results of<br />
the child welfare Request for Proposals.<br />
In E-mail correspondence to providers,<br />
ACS Executive Deputy Commissioner<br />
for Operations Belinda Conway stated that<br />
Foster Boarding Home contracts will be extended<br />
through September 30, <strong>2010</strong>. Preventive<br />
contracts will be extended based on<br />
the transition plan for each program such<br />
that the contracts will end between June 30<br />
and November 30, <strong>2010</strong> with most contracts<br />
ending September 30, <strong>2010</strong>. “We expect to<br />
extend all current residential care contracts<br />
through March 31, 2011,” said Conway.<br />
<strong>New</strong> contracts for family foster care and<br />
preventive are now expected to begin on October<br />
1, <strong>2010</strong> and all new contracts for residential<br />
care will begin on January 1, 2011.<br />
“There will be a three-month overlap<br />
between current and new contracts for these<br />
services,” said Conway.<br />
ACS indicated that it will notify agencies<br />
as soon as the new contract recommendations<br />
are approved. “We hope to do so in<br />
March or early <strong>April</strong>,” said Conway.<br />
“Transition activity will include expansion<br />
for some programs, reduction in slots<br />
for others, as well as new program openings<br />
and some program closures.”<br />
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West End Intergenerational Residence<br />
HDFC, Inc. has closed financing and commenced<br />
construction on True Colors Residence,<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City’s first permanent<br />
housing facility with support services for previously<br />
homeless, 18-24 year old lesbian, gay,<br />
bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth.<br />
True Colors was conceived by West End<br />
Executive Director Colleen Jackson, and by<br />
musical artist Cyndi Lauper and Ms. Lauper’s<br />
manager, Lisa Barbaris. The project entails<br />
the construction of a new, energy-efficient<br />
multifamily building containing 30 studio<br />
apartments, indoor and outdoor community<br />
space for residents, and a computer room<br />
and resource library. The building is named<br />
in honor of Cyndi’s Lauper’s support for the<br />
project and for West End, and references Lauper’s<br />
hit song, “True Colors.”<br />
True Colors is being financed by a variety<br />
of sources, including a construction loan<br />
and the purchase of low-income housing tax<br />
credits by Citi; construction and permanent<br />
lending provided by the <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City Department<br />
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M&T Bank; a grant from Manhattan Borough<br />
President Scott Stringer; and a loan from the<br />
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Authority (NYSERDA). A portion<br />
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Federal Tax Credit Assistance Program. The<br />
low-income housing tax credit equity is being<br />
syndicated by Richman Housing Resources<br />
LLC, a member of The Richman Group of<br />
Companies.<br />
“This is a very exciting time for West<br />
End,” said Colleen Jackson. “After what seems<br />
like an eternity, we have finally broken ground<br />
and are one step closer to our goal of turning<br />
the concept of the True Colors Residence into<br />
reality. We extend our sincerest gratitude to all<br />
of our funders and collaborators and we send<br />
special thanks to Manhattan Borough President<br />
Scott Stringer for his invaluable support,<br />
and to Cyndi Lauper and Lisa Barbaris whose<br />
commitment to serving the needs of LGBT<br />
youth led to the creation of this residence. ”<br />
“Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender<br />
youth living on the streets and in foster care<br />
need our support more than ever,” said Cyndi<br />
Lauper. “In <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City, the True Colors<br />
Residence is going to play a big role in providing<br />
these young people with the leg up and encouragement<br />
they need. I am thrilled that construction<br />
has already begun and I am honored<br />
to be a part of this important project.”<br />
Acquisition and pre-development financing<br />
for True Colors was provided by the Corporation<br />
for Supportive Housing and the <strong>New</strong><br />
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or more in cuts they will have to do,” says<br />
Allison Sesso, Deputy Executive Director<br />
of the Human Services Council of <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>York</strong> City.<br />
“At the end of the day, there are going<br />
to be very significant budget reductions,”<br />
says Ronald Soloway, Managing Director<br />
of Government and External Relations<br />
for UJA-Federation of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>. “This is<br />
not going to be like last year when money<br />
was found to restore all the service cuts.<br />
In fact, every day the legislature waits the<br />
budget deficit gets larger. We are looking<br />
now at $9-$10 billion.”<br />
What would be the impact of the<br />
Governor’s Budget as currently proposed<br />
Here is a look at some of the larger cutbacks<br />
most recently identified by providers<br />
and advocates.<br />
Cuts to Homeless Shelters<br />
The budget proposes to effectively<br />
end direct State funding for <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong><br />
City’s homeless shelters which serve approximately<br />
7,500 single adults every<br />
night. Traditionally, say advocates, the<br />
State shared the cost of single adult homeless<br />
shelters with the City – although it<br />
had capped its share and is now paying<br />
less than half. As outlined in the Executive<br />
Budget, the State proposes that the<br />
City enroll single adult shelter residents on<br />
Public Assistance and take reimbursement<br />
for shelter costs through the individual’s<br />
PA shelter grant.<br />
Advocates, providers and the City itself<br />
view the plan as completely unworkable<br />
and estimate that it would result in<br />
a $65 million loss of funding. Only 24<br />
percent of Department of Homeless Services<br />
single adult shelter clients currently<br />
qualify for public assistance. The rest,<br />
they say, are hindered by mental or physical<br />
health problems and life on the streets.<br />
“People come in one night and are out the<br />
rest; or they are in one month and out the<br />
next,” says Shelly Nortz, Deputy Executive<br />
Director for Policy with Coalition for<br />
the Homeless.<br />
“The Governor’s proposal for homeless<br />
adult shelter funding is irresponsible<br />
and puts the City in an untenable position<br />
as we continue to provide shelter to our<br />
most vulnerable <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>ers, said NYC<br />
DHS Commissioner Robert V. Hess. “The<br />
state proposal is particularly damaging<br />
and insensitive in this economic climate<br />
where the cuts would have a severe impact<br />
on our ability to deliver critical services to<br />
those who need it most.”<br />
“This is poorly thought out and<br />
doesn’t make any sense,” says Christy<br />
Parque, Executive Director of Homeless<br />
Services United. “It creates an ironic<br />
disincentive for shelter residents to work.<br />
And, undocumented people, who account<br />
for about 12% of the shelter population,<br />
will not be eligible.”<br />
The City anticipates the loss in state<br />
funding would result in at least a 10%<br />
across the board cut in funding for adult<br />
shelters – a cut which will have an even<br />
greater impact on services. “You can’t tell<br />
your landlord you are only going to pay<br />
90% of your rent or debt service,” says<br />
Parque. “The only place you can take the<br />
cut is in staffing or program services. We<br />
are estimating we could lose 600 to 700<br />
positions in the shelters.”<br />
In addition to directly impacting shelter<br />
operations, the cuts would eliminate<br />
vital discretionary services such as street<br />
outreach teams, Safe Havens and stabilization<br />
beds. “We could see 1,000 more new<br />
people on the street,” says Parque. “We<br />
will lose the progress we have made in<br />
reducing street homelessness prior to the<br />
downturn.”<br />
Ironically, the proposal comes just as<br />
the City reports that there has already been<br />
a setback in the effort to get homeless individuals<br />
and families off the streets and into<br />
shelter. This year’s annual Homeless Outreach<br />
Population Estimate (HOPE) street<br />
homeless survey found that 3,111 homeless<br />
individuals were living on city streets<br />
in January – up by 783 or 34% over the<br />
number in 2009. “These are challenging<br />
times that have had an impact on our street<br />
homeless population,” said DHS Commissioner<br />
Hess, who stressed that this year’s<br />
number was still 29% below where it had<br />
been in 2005.<br />
“With record homelessness in <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>York</strong> City, this is exactly the wrong time<br />
for Governor Paterson to propose staggering<br />
cuts to our shelter system,” said Mary<br />
Brosnahan, Executive Director of Coalition<br />
for the Homeless.<br />
It is also worth noting that advocates<br />
believe the state proposal could actually<br />
increase total costs for both State and City<br />
taxpayers, since far more single adults<br />
pass through the shelter system each year<br />
(23,000) than are housed on any given<br />
night (7,500). “If, as DOB assumes, all<br />
shelter occupants become public assistance<br />
recipients, my calculation shows that<br />
not only would the combined income loss<br />
and added expenses cost <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City at<br />
least $74 million, but the added welfare<br />
costs would also wipe out the assumed<br />
$36 million in state savings and actually<br />
cost us a few million dollars,” said Shelly<br />
Nortz in legislative budget testimony on<br />
February 10th.<br />
“Save Our Centers”<br />
Another surprise hole in the State’s<br />
budget is a seemingly arcane proposal to<br />
redirect federal Title XX funds. In <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>York</strong> City, the budget shift would cost the<br />
Department for the Aging (DFTA) approximately<br />
$25 million or roughly one-quarter<br />
of its entire budget for senior centers.<br />
The cut, if it is not reversed, is expected<br />
to result in the closing of between 80 and<br />
110 senior centers – and services for 5,500<br />
seniors -- across the five boroughs.<br />
Advocates, providers and elected officials<br />
turned out at City Hall on March 9th<br />
to protest the Governor’s budget proposal<br />
with the launch of a “Save Our Centers”<br />
campaign.<br />
“These cuts would literally starve<br />
thousands of poor seniors,” <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City<br />
Council Aging Committee Chair Jessica<br />
Lappin said. “In addition to providing hot<br />
meals, these centers provide care, companionship,<br />
and case management to some of<br />
our neediest <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>ers. Our state legislators<br />
simply cannot approve this cut.”<br />
“The City Council has a proven record<br />
of success when it comes to defending our<br />
city’s senior centers,” said Speaker Christine<br />
C. Quinn. “Older <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>ers depend<br />
on senior centers as a lifeline, especially<br />
during this recession. We’re urging everyone<br />
to call their state legislators and the<br />
Governor’s office to let them know these<br />
cuts are unacceptable. We won’t allow Albany<br />
to turn its back on our seniors.”<br />
“The tsunami of city and state cuts<br />
raining down on senior centers and other<br />
services funded through the Department<br />
for the Aging will close up to 110 senior<br />
centers and cripple the funding of the<br />
remaining senior centers,” said Bobbie<br />
Sackman, Director of Public Policy for the<br />
Council of Senior Centers and Services.<br />
“UNH, along with our fellow advocates<br />
and colleagues in government and<br />
the provider community, is adamantly opposed<br />
to the State’s proposal to redirect<br />
$25 million in Title XX funds away from<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City’s senior services,” said<br />
Nancy Wackstein, Executive Director of<br />
United Neighborhood Houses.<br />
“If the Title XX funding for senior<br />
centers is eliminated, then Selfhelp’s six<br />
senior centers, which serve many thousands<br />
of seniors in Queens, will face a<br />
funding loss of $90,000 per center – further<br />
compounding recent budget cuts,”<br />
said Leo Aspen, Vice President, Senior<br />
Communities, Selfhelp Community Services,<br />
Inc.<br />
“FPWA urges the Governor and <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>York</strong> State Legislature to preserve the<br />
flexibility of Title XX funding so that<br />
needed resources can continue to flow to<br />
neighborhood-based senior centers,” said<br />
Kathy Fitzgibbons, Senior Policy Analyst<br />
from the Federation of Protestant Welfare<br />
Agencies (FPWA).<br />
Child Care Shortfall<br />
While not technically an Executive<br />
Budget cut, advocates are concerned that<br />
FY<strong>2010</strong>-2011 will see up to a $50 million<br />
reduction in available funding for child<br />
care services as the State’s runs out of rollover<br />
monies which had previously helped<br />
support current-year programming around<br />
the state. “The impact in <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City<br />
could be as high as $30 million,” says<br />
Gregory Brender, Policy Analyst with<br />
United Neighborhood Houses. “A loss that<br />
large could only be implemented through<br />
a significant reduction in capacity.”<br />
It’s the State, Stupid!<br />
In addition to these specific funding<br />
reductions, <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City is also slated<br />
to take a broader loss in revenue sharing<br />
and education aid. “We all know that hard<br />
budget choices are necessary – but so are<br />
fair ones,” the Mayor told the legislature<br />
during budget testimony in January. “I re-
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gret to say that this budget – which would<br />
impose a total of $1.3 billion in cuts on <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>York</strong> City and leave us with close to 19,000<br />
fewer City employees to perform basic services<br />
– utterly fails the test of fairness.”<br />
For example, he pointed out that <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong><br />
City would see its Aid and Incentives for<br />
Municipalities (AIM) funding cut entirely<br />
while all other counties in the state would<br />
only face reductions of up to 5%. The loss<br />
on AIM alone comes to $328 million.<br />
In response, the Mayor has developed<br />
an entirely separate “contingency budget”<br />
outlining extremely painful cuts to programs<br />
and services which will be necessary<br />
if the Governor’s budget is adopted as written.<br />
What would the loss of this $1.3 billion<br />
mean In addition to cutting 8,500<br />
teachers, 3,150 cops, 1,050 fire fighters and<br />
978 correction officers, there are likely to<br />
be some significant cuts to human services.<br />
A few examples of the Mayor’s proposals<br />
include:<br />
• A 30% reduction in ACS preventive<br />
services capacity – 2,584 slots – for a<br />
$9.2 million budget reduction;<br />
• A 25% reduction in the number of day<br />
care vouchers provided to low income<br />
families for a $35.6 million savings;<br />
• Elimination of funding for 500 soup<br />
kitchens and food pantries for a $10.2<br />
million cut;<br />
• Closing of 15 senior centers for a $3.5<br />
million cut;<br />
• A 6% reduction in administrative rates<br />
to foster boarding home agencies;<br />
• A 14% reduction in City-Funded Beacons;<br />
• Elimination of 3,000 OST slots.<br />
TANF Funded Programs<br />
Another major area of concern for<br />
human service providers is the Executive<br />
Budget’s wholesale cuts to programs which<br />
had been funded using federal Temporary<br />
Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)<br />
funds. These TANF-Surplus funds – savings<br />
accrued by the state as Public Assistance<br />
(PA) rolls declined following welfare<br />
reform -- had been used over the past decade<br />
to support a wide range of human service<br />
programs. As part of the Governor’s<br />
Executive Budget, a substantial portion of<br />
these funds will be redirected back to support<br />
increasing PA costs due to rising enrollments<br />
and higher benefits.<br />
As a result, approximately $132 million<br />
in funding has been stripped away from<br />
over 30 separate programs which provide job<br />
training, youth services, alternatives to incarceration,<br />
supportive housing, refugee resettlement,<br />
home visiting, child care and more.<br />
In most cases, the loss of TANF funding<br />
was total. Therefore, programs which<br />
had been fully-supported by these federal<br />
funds are completely eliminated in the<br />
Governor’s budget proposal. Among the<br />
victims are the Summer Youth Employment<br />
Program ($35 million), OCFS Preventive<br />
Services ($18.8 million), Supportive Housing<br />
for Families and Young Adults ($5 million),<br />
and many more.<br />
Those programs previously funded<br />
through a combination of TANF and State<br />
funds are typically losing all TANF funds<br />
and 10% of State monies. The combined<br />
impacts are devastating. Programs which<br />
provide Alternatives to Incarceration/Alternatives<br />
to Residential Placement for juveniles<br />
lost $10.8 million in TANF funding,<br />
close to 80% of their total funding. Advantage<br />
Afterschool took a $11.4 million<br />
TANF cut, bringing total proposed funding<br />
down to $17.25 million -- 39% below its<br />
current FY<strong>2010</strong> budget and a full 43% below<br />
its $30.5 million starting point at the<br />
beginning of FY<strong>2010</strong>.<br />
Tick, Tick, Tick<br />
As we went to press, the State’s budget<br />
negotiating machinery was beginning<br />
to budge forward. As previously noted, the<br />
Senate had passed a “one house” budget<br />
resolution which restored substantial funding<br />
to a range of programs and services,<br />
including many TANF-funded programs,<br />
monies for Title XX-funded senior centers,<br />
homeless shelter funding, etc.<br />
Providers and advocates took some encouragement<br />
from the Senate action. “We<br />
are grateful that the Senate recognized the importance<br />
of these critical human service programs,”<br />
said HSC’s Allison Sesso of HSC.<br />
Unfortunately, this optimism was tempered<br />
by the fact that the Senate resolution<br />
simultaneously rejected more than $1 billion<br />
in revenue actions already included in<br />
the Governor’s Executive Budget proposal.<br />
Based on a preliminary review, it appeared<br />
that the Senate resolution would leave the<br />
FY<strong>2010</strong>-2011 budget with a significant<br />
deficit.<br />
“The State Senate Democrats’ budget<br />
resolution… fails to take common-sense<br />
measures to generate revenue that could<br />
offset a devastating school aid cut and prevent<br />
8,500 teacher layoffs in <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong><br />
City,” said Mayor Bloomberg. “While the<br />
resolution does include laudable restorations<br />
to senior centers, homeless shelters<br />
and indigent health care, all eyes will be<br />
on the Senate, and the entire Legislature,<br />
as we enter the home stretch in this crucial<br />
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Revenues Anyone<br />
While prospects for the Governor’s<br />
“Soda Tax” seemed increasingly doubtful,<br />
a number of advocacy groups were urging<br />
consideration of additional tax and revenue<br />
proposals to offset the need for painful<br />
cuts.<br />
The Fiscal Policy Institute was pressing<br />
for an enhancement to last year’s temporary<br />
Personal Income Tax (PIT) rate increases<br />
for high-income households. “It is<br />
the most logical type of revenue increase<br />
to do in bad times,” says Frank Mauro,<br />
FPI’s Executive Director. “Last year, they<br />
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brackets, one for individuals with income<br />
of $200,000 or married couples with income<br />
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Mauro notes that the Governor of Colorado<br />
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on the use of net operating loss carryforwards.<br />
The Human Services Council is also<br />
supporting a number of additional revenue<br />
proposals totaling over $1.2 billion in annual<br />
revenues. These include elimination<br />
of the Empire Zone program ($600 million),<br />
a Plastic Bag Tax ($340 million) and<br />
reforming the Brownfield Clean-Up Program<br />
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Another approach to partially addressing<br />
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by Lieutenant Governor Richard<br />
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program as a bridge to longer term<br />
fiscal reform. Ravitch’s plan would allow<br />
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year for the next three years as part of a<br />
plan which would impose a variety of new<br />
fiscal controls. These would include creation<br />
of a five-member commission to review<br />
the States financial plans, and authority<br />
for the Governor to balance the budget<br />
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the event of a deadlock with the legislature.<br />
Ravitch’s proposal was promptly criticized<br />
by the Governor and appears to have generated<br />
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Following the Senate’s resolution,<br />
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was reportedly<br />
in discussions in preparation for<br />
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With a budget of almost $30 million,<br />
500 staff and 16 program locations, BBCS<br />
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every year. The agency’s programs fall into<br />
three major categories: helping children<br />
reach their full potential, strengthening<br />
families, and assisting adults with disabilities<br />
or other challenges to live successful<br />
and independent lives.<br />
Helping Children<br />
BBCS’ services for low income, at-risk<br />
children and their families begin with a variety<br />
of early childhood programs for approximately<br />
400 youngsters that include an<br />
ACS-funded child care center, Head Start,<br />
Early Head Start and a family-based child<br />
care network.<br />
“I think what makes our agency stand<br />
out is our focus on a literacy rich curriculum,”<br />
says Douglas C. Brooks, LCSW-R, Director<br />
of Family and Children’s Services. “We utilize<br />
the Creative Curriculum, which is a nationally<br />
known, evidence-based curriculum<br />
that can measure children’s development.<br />
Our data shows conclusively that children<br />
involved with our agency’s early childhood<br />
programs are well prepared when they reach<br />
kindergarten or first grade.”<br />
Like many early childhood program providers,<br />
BBCS is facing significant challenges<br />
as a result of funding cuts by the <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong><br />
City Administration for Children’s Services.<br />
Its Duffield Children’s Center, which serves<br />
90 children under a contract with ACS, has<br />
been targeted for closure – not due to any<br />
concerns regarding quality or enrollment, but<br />
because the City’s own direct lease with the<br />
building landlord is viewed as too expensive.<br />
Goodman sees the City’s plan to close<br />
the center as extremely unfortunate, given<br />
the facility’s convenient location for low income<br />
parents working in downtown Brooklyn,<br />
its solid enrollment and its high quality<br />
design features. “Duffield is fully utilized at<br />
this time,” he says. “The building is a beautiful<br />
site that is perfect for the needs of a day<br />
care center. You just walk in and you feel the<br />
positive energy.”<br />
Located near Flatbush Avenue and the<br />
DeKalb Avenue subway station, Duffield offers<br />
easy childcare access for parents. “Over<br />
95 percent of our parents are either working<br />
or in school,” says Brooks. “It is really helpful<br />
for parents who need to drop off their<br />
children on the way to work. They can leave<br />
them with us as early as 7:30 and pick them<br />
up as late as 7:00. There aren’t too many<br />
other programs that can offer that.”<br />
In addition to the ACS program, Duffield<br />
also houses BBCS’ Head Start program<br />
which accommodates a total of 47 children.<br />
“We would have to relocate the Head Start<br />
program,” says Brooks. “We don’t want<br />
the City to turn down a half million dollars<br />
in Federal funding.” Duffield also serves<br />
40 school age children with funding from<br />
vouchers or parent fees.<br />
At the same time, BBCS is also looking<br />
forward to exciting new program opportunities.<br />
Within the next few months, it will be<br />
opening a new Early Head Start program located<br />
in a specially-designed child care facility<br />
at 1825 Atlantic Avenue. The space was<br />
created as part of an affordable housing project<br />
by Dunn Development. “It is all state of<br />
the art,” says Brooks. “We are definitely excited<br />
and funders are really excited. Usually<br />
when you apply for new programs you have<br />
to scrounge around to find space.”<br />
The Early Head Start program will serve<br />
24 families with children aged zero to three<br />
in center-based services and an additional<br />
48 families at their homes. BBCS is looking<br />
for additional programming to serve children<br />
ages three, four and five. The facility<br />
as a whole will have a capacity to serve 48<br />
children.<br />
In addition to its center-based programs,<br />
BBCS operates a family-based child care network.<br />
More than 40 independent providers<br />
care for 200 children in their own homes, with<br />
training, supervision and administrative support<br />
from BBCS. This provides employment<br />
for the providers as well as safe, high quality<br />
daycare services for the working poor.<br />
This range of early childhood programs<br />
allows BBCS the flexibility to offer families<br />
what they need and want, says Brooks: “If<br />
they want their children placed in a smaller<br />
setting, we have the family day care. If they<br />
want a classroom-type setting, we have the<br />
centers. But they are receiving the same quality<br />
of service. We now have families that go<br />
back with us for two or three generations.”<br />
For older children, BBCS operates the<br />
Gary Klinsky Children’s Centers which provide<br />
after-school learning opportunities to<br />
children from low-income families in some<br />
of the City’s most challenged schools. “A lot<br />
of afterschool programs are sports oriented.<br />
This is an academic enrichment program,”<br />
says Goodman. “From the testing we do,<br />
there is a significant difference in achievement<br />
between the kids in our programs and<br />
those who do not attend.”<br />
The programs operate every weekday<br />
from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and serve 850<br />
children from kindergarten through middle<br />
school in East <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> and Crown Heights.<br />
The programs are made possible by the financial<br />
support of Wall Street private equity<br />
investment fund manager Steven Klinsky.<br />
“He wanted to do something to honor his late<br />
brother,” says Goodman. “He and his circle<br />
of friends and associates, provide the lion’s<br />
share of what it takes to run these programs.”<br />
They also receive support through NYC Department<br />
of Youth and Community Development’s<br />
Out of School Time (OST) program.<br />
Strengthening Families<br />
BBCS operates one of the larger ACSfunded<br />
child abuse and neglect prevention<br />
programs in <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City, serving a total of<br />
close to 400 at-risk families at any given point<br />
in time. The goal is to help avoid foster care<br />
placement and keep children safely at home<br />
with their parents.<br />
“Pulling kids out and placing them in<br />
foster care is not what is best for children or<br />
families,” explains Goodman.<br />
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BBCS operates one general preventive<br />
program for 250 families that is based in the<br />
agency’s Bedford Stuyvesant Family Center.<br />
At the East <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> Family Center, the<br />
agency has both a 90-slot general preventive<br />
program and an enhanced program for thirty<br />
families with adolescents. These are both severely<br />
under-served communities with a high<br />
incidences of families at risk.<br />
“We are the only program that only hires<br />
MSW level workers,” says Brooks. “We use<br />
the Structural Family Therapy approach developed<br />
by Salvador Minuchin to address<br />
problems in the functioning and patterns of<br />
relationships within the family. In fact, his<br />
son Dan is a consultant with us.”<br />
“Many of these families do not understand<br />
what parenting is,” says Goodman.<br />
“They have never been parented themselves.<br />
They may have been abused and neglected as<br />
children and there may have been alcohol or<br />
drug abuse in the family. We go in and build<br />
on the family’s strengths and help to create a<br />
safe and nurturing environment.”<br />
“We meet with the families once a week,”<br />
says Brooks. “We observe their interactions<br />
and give them direction and feedback on how<br />
the family can be strengthened.”<br />
The approach is not without its challenges.<br />
“We look at the family as a whole,”<br />
says Brooks. “Yet, we are doing preventive<br />
child welfare work. It is a question of how<br />
you blend these two disciplines. Often they<br />
are similar but sometimes they can be at odds<br />
with one another.”<br />
The strong clinical skills required for<br />
family therapy services drive BBCS’ MSWonly<br />
staffing model. “You can do the same<br />
type of work with bachelor-level staff but you<br />
may not get the same quality results,” says<br />
Brooks, noting that family members often<br />
come to the program severely damaged by<br />
combinations of alcohol and substance abuse,<br />
mental health challenges and a lifetime of<br />
poverty.<br />
The workload is intensive and stressful.<br />
With caseloads of 12 to 14, and multiple children<br />
in many cases, social workers can be doing<br />
75 to 100 home and collateral visits per<br />
month.<br />
Nevertheless, BBCS’s program is overwhelmingly<br />
successful – 97-98% – in assisting<br />
families to avoid foster care placements<br />
and remain safely intact.<br />
Homemaking Services -- the second<br />
programmatic instrument in BBCS’ family<br />
strengthening tool kit -- is significantly
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Adult Services<br />
BCS offers a wide range of employment<br />
programs for individuals with disabilities.<br />
less clinical, but no less important. BBCS<br />
Homemakers are in-house teachers and role<br />
models for troubled parents whose children<br />
are at risk of foster care placement.<br />
Unlike home health aides who primarily<br />
do hands-on work with the elderly,<br />
homemakers work with the family as a<br />
whole, explains Marilyn Millien-Harris,<br />
Director of Homemaking for BBCS. “We<br />
have to teach and train the parent on child<br />
care, parenting and better home management<br />
skills,” she says.<br />
Parents in Homemaking cases may<br />
have physical or mental health challenges,<br />
making these cases infinitely more complex.<br />
“Mostly it has to do with parenting<br />
issues or a mother’s physical or mental inability<br />
to keep a clean home,” says Millien-<br />
Harris. “We’ve gone into homes with piles<br />
of dirty dishes and laundry that hasn’t been<br />
done for a month.”<br />
Homemakers are also another line of defense<br />
in terms of child safety. “They receive<br />
training every year in terms of how to ensure<br />
safety in the home,” says Millien-Harris.<br />
“They are mandated reporters. If they see<br />
anything that may signify neglect or abuse<br />
they have a responsibility to report it.”<br />
Homemakers typically work in the<br />
home of fragile families for a minimum of<br />
20 hours per week – and up to 24/7 in particularly<br />
troubled cases. “We have two or<br />
three cases where the parent has cognitive<br />
delays and ACS doesn’t trust the mother’s<br />
judgment,” says Millien-Harris.<br />
All Homemaking cases are referred by<br />
ACS, which lately has been cutting back.<br />
BBCS currently has just over 100 homemakers<br />
and serves an estimated 175 families<br />
annually.<br />
A year and one half ago, BBCS expanded<br />
its work with troubled youth to include<br />
a partnership with the NYC Department<br />
of Education on the development of a<br />
“Transfer School” for “over age and under<br />
credited” students. DOE provides the education<br />
and BBCS provides the counseling<br />
and support services to help students deal<br />
with the non-academic challenges which<br />
hindered their prior educational progress.<br />
“Our counselors help them deal with their<br />
personal issues and make sure that family<br />
dynamics do not interfere with their capacity<br />
to learn,” says Goodman. “We will do<br />
whatever it takes to help them succeed.<br />
We’ll call them up in the morning and make<br />
sure they are up and on their way to school.<br />
We work with parents to get them involved<br />
in a positive way.”<br />
BBCS’ third and largest “bucket” of<br />
services is targeted at fostering self sufficiency<br />
for adults, many of whom live with<br />
disabilities or other significant challenges.<br />
“We serve people with psychiatric disabilities,<br />
people with developmental disabilities<br />
and others,” says Leslie Klein, Director of<br />
Adult Rehabilitation Services.<br />
In terms of services for those with<br />
psychiatric disabilities, BBCS offers two<br />
clubhouse programs, continuing day treatment,<br />
supported employment, an adolescent<br />
employment and education program, transitional<br />
living and an enclaves in industry<br />
program.<br />
Klein is particularly excited about the<br />
growing focus on rehabilitation and recovery.<br />
“In the past, the focus was primarily on<br />
reducing symptoms,” she explains. “These<br />
days, the focus is on gaining or regaining<br />
life roles, helping people to set and achieve<br />
goals that are personally relevant to them.”<br />
Goals include learning job skills, finding<br />
employment and living independently.<br />
BBCS’ two clubhouse programs – perhaps<br />
the most recovery-focused of all programs<br />
for individuals with mental illness<br />
– have been repeatedly certified by the International<br />
Center for Clubhouse Development<br />
(ICCD). “These are wonderful programs,”<br />
says Klein. “I am always amazed when I<br />
see the changes and growth in clubhouse<br />
members.”<br />
Metro Club in downtown Brooklyn and<br />
the East <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> Clubhouse each have approximately<br />
150 members who effectively<br />
run the programming with BBCS’ support<br />
and supervision. The next challenge will be<br />
a transition to the Office of Mental Health’s<br />
Personalized Recovery Oriented Services<br />
(PROS) licensing model which opens the<br />
door to much needed Medicaid funding, but<br />
adds record keeping, documentation and<br />
billing complications – as well as the danger<br />
of a potential shift in culture associated with<br />
a medical model program. “We are starting<br />
with Metro Club,” says Klein. “We opted to<br />
be in the first group in the hope that we will<br />
learn to do the model well.”<br />
BBCS is actively involved in cutting<br />
edge research on the most effective ways to<br />
deliver psychiatric rehabilitation services.<br />
“We are just coming off a three-year project<br />
with researchers from Dartmouth University<br />
on the effectiveness of combining Cognitive<br />
Remediation and Supported Employment,”<br />
says Klein. Now the agency is beginning<br />
a second three-year study which will look<br />
at the impact of adding Illness Management<br />
and Recovery as a third coordinated component<br />
to this combination of treatments.<br />
“They haven’t published the results of the<br />
first study yet, but I think they saw a positive<br />
correlation. With the third element, they are<br />
hoping to do even better,” says Klein.<br />
BBCS offers a broad range of similarly<br />
targeted services for individuals with developmental<br />
disabilities, including day habilitation,<br />
pre-vocational training, a sheltered<br />
workshop and supported employment. “We<br />
have recreation, residential rehabilitation<br />
and Medicaid service coordination,” says<br />
Klein.<br />
One exciting new initiative is a residential<br />
program in which 12 consumers with<br />
developmental disabilities, who had been<br />
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own studio apartment in a large affordable<br />
housing complex at 1825 Atlantic Avenue.<br />
“We have an office with staff on the first floor<br />
to provide support,” says Klein. “The consumers<br />
take a lot of pride in their apartments.<br />
They are learning how to cook and clean.<br />
They socialize and mix with their neighbors.<br />
It is a great model.”<br />
BBCS’ employment-related services are<br />
extensive and appropriate for individuals with<br />
a wide range of disabilities – as well as those<br />
who do not face these chronic challenges.<br />
Pre-vocational support serves those who<br />
cannot yet pursue vocational training or job<br />
placement due to the degree of their mental<br />
illness or mental retardation. These services<br />
include Project Moving On, which offers daily<br />
counseling, therapeutic activities and peer<br />
support for people with severe mental illness.<br />
Day Habilitation provides center-based services<br />
as well as opportunities for volunteer<br />
work with local community groups. Residential<br />
Habilitation teaches independent living<br />
skills to developmentally disabled adults living<br />
with their families or in their own homes.<br />
BBCS also operates a sheltered workshop<br />
at which individuals with disabilities<br />
provide a variety of packaging and assembly<br />
services for local Brooklyn businesses. “We<br />
package everything from special eye guards<br />
for kids playing football to<br />
spices for a local factory,”<br />
says Goodman. “We have<br />
even invested in a ‘clam<br />
shell’ packaging machine<br />
to package electronic<br />
products.”<br />
“We have very strong<br />
relationships with local<br />
employers,” says Deborah<br />
Washington, Director<br />
of Placement Services.<br />
BBCS has developed a service<br />
model in which teams<br />
of consumers will work<br />
on site with such business<br />
partners as Berdiner Laboratories,<br />
Brooklyn Union<br />
Beer Distributors, Citi-<br />
Storage and Tanner Nuts<br />
and Bolts – but under the<br />
supervision of a BBCS staff member.<br />
In addition to its services for individuals<br />
with disabilities, BBCS also operates its own<br />
proprietary vocational school – the Brooklyn<br />
Bureau Career Training Academy – which<br />
provides training in retail skills, including<br />
classroom work, a computer lab and on-site<br />
experience working with Marshall’s department<br />
store.<br />
All together, BBCS provides pre-vocation<br />
or employment related services to 2,308<br />
individuals annually, including 596 who are<br />
BBCS operates a variety of literacyrich<br />
early childhood programs.<br />
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supported employment.<br />
<strong>New</strong> Directions<br />
When Goodman<br />
succeeded Donna Santarsiero,<br />
who had led the<br />
agency for 28 years, he<br />
found an organization<br />
with strong programs but<br />
also significant financial<br />
challenges in light of the<br />
nation’s economic crisis<br />
and cutbacks in government<br />
funding. As a result,<br />
Goodman and new<br />
Board Chair Jerrold<br />
Mulder, are strongly focused<br />
on efforts both to<br />
increase BBCS’ visibility<br />
with potential donors, volunteers and other<br />
supporters and to find new and more diverse<br />
sources of revenue.<br />
Once a month, Goodman now hosts a<br />
“360 Event” at which interested members of<br />
the community are invited to a one-hour session<br />
which introduces BBCS and the work it<br />
does throughout the borough. “We bring in<br />
people from all over – business people, lawyers,<br />
people from other nonprofits, City government,”<br />
says Goodman. “They learn about<br />
what we do, hear testimonials from staff and<br />
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ways to market these services.”<br />
The agency has received pro bono assistance<br />
from Morgan Stanley in development<br />
of a business plan for a new income generating<br />
project. “They put a team of associates<br />
together to help us put together a plan,” says<br />
Goodman. “We have a number of ideas and<br />
are looking to identify the one that requires<br />
the least investment of start-up capital.” First<br />
on the agenda is a plan to market family therapy<br />
treatment services to non-governmental<br />
consumers. “There is a dearth of services out<br />
there,” says Goodman. “We have the expertise,<br />
experience and the reputation for providing<br />
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CACF Re-Grants $280,000<br />
in Compassion Capital Funds<br />
The Coalition for Asian American<br />
Children and Families (CACF)<br />
provided grants totaling $280,000<br />
to 18 organizations led by and<br />
serving Asian Americans yesterday.<br />
The grants were awarded<br />
through CACF’s participation in the<br />
U.S. Health and Human Services<br />
Compassion Capital Fund Demonstration<br />
Program designed to build<br />
the capacity of community-based<br />
organizations.<br />
Through a competitive<br />
process, 54 Asian led and serving<br />
organizations applied for this<br />
capacity building grant, and 18<br />
received funding. The grantees<br />
were:<br />
• Adhikaar for Human Rights<br />
and Social Justice<br />
• APEX<br />
• CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities<br />
The Coalition for Asian American Children and Families regranted<br />
$280,000 in federal Compassion Capital Funds to 18<br />
local nonprofits.<br />
• Center for the Integration and Advancement of <strong>New</strong> Americans<br />
• DRUM-Desis Rising Up & Moving<br />
• Family Health Project<br />
• Filipino American Human Services, Inc.<br />
• Homecrest Community Services, Inc.<br />
• Indochina Sino-American Community Center<br />
• Japanese American Social Services, Inc.<br />
• Kalusugan Coalition, Inc.<br />
• Korean American Family Service Center<br />
• <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> Taxi Worker Alliance<br />
• South Asian Youth Action<br />
• St. Rita’s Center for Immigrant/Refugee Services<br />
• The Sikh Coalition<br />
• Turning Point for Women and Families<br />
• United Chinese Association of Brooklyn<br />
Specifically, grant recipients will receive: 1) mini-grants in amounts ranging from $10,000-<br />
$25,000, 2) capacity building trainings, and 3) individualized technical assistance to enhance their<br />
knowledge of public policy and to advocate for Asian Pacific American children and families. This<br />
project provides CACF with additional resources to strengthen the voice of advocates who can collectively<br />
work towards improving policies, funding, and services for the diverse Asian Pacific American<br />
community.<br />
“We are excited that we are able support the capacity building of organizations to provide better<br />
services to the Asian Pacific American community through this grant,” said Wayne Ho, Executive<br />
Director of CACF.<br />
“We are excited about this capacity building opportunity,” said Grace Yoon, Executive Director<br />
of the Korean American Family Service Center. “Through CACF’s support and leadership, we<br />
are able to strengthen our organization and programs and to be the best we can be for children and<br />
families in need.”<br />
Options for Living Gets $198K<br />
for “Green” Housing Improvements<br />
Options for Community Living, Inc. has received $198,000 to make “green” improvements to<br />
its supported housing programs for adults with mental illness. The award is part of more than $250<br />
million in funding for “energy and green retrofits” available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment<br />
Act of 2009 (ARRA).<br />
The federal funding will support energy efficient improvements to five Suffolk County residences.<br />
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solar modules.<br />
As a participant in the Green Retrofit Program, Options will lower electric, heating fuel, and<br />
water consumption. The agency is committed to practices and use of materials that are broadly<br />
recognized as practical, feasible and less harmful to residents and the environment.<br />
Options for Community Living, Inc. operates a community residence program for adults with<br />
mental illness, a shelter program for homeless Suffolk County families, and a case management and<br />
housing program for people living with HIV/ AIDS in both Nassau and Suffolk. ast year alone, Options<br />
assisted over 1000 adults and children on Long Island. For more information, visit the Options<br />
website www.optionscl.org or call (631)361-9020.
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EDUCATION<br />
Got Issues Students in Milano’s Issues Lab Can Help!<br />
Does your agency have some thorny<br />
issue that needs a resolution Why not assign<br />
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For more than 30 years, Milano’s Urban<br />
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has been assigning graduate students to work<br />
with clients in government and the nonprofit<br />
sector as part of a highly structured “Laboratory<br />
in Issues Analysis”. In addition to being a<br />
tremendous learning experience for students,<br />
the Lab can serve as a valuable resource for<br />
cash strapped nonprofits. During February<br />
and March, a total of 16 organizations took<br />
advantage of the opportunity during the first<br />
round of this year’s Issues Lab projects.<br />
Milano students brief NYC Councilmember Gale Brewer on their<br />
research into tri-state food distribution.<br />
“It was very helpful,” says Ben Esner,<br />
Senior Vice President for Programs at the<br />
Brooklyn Community Foundation (BCF).<br />
BCF had engaged a team of students to<br />
help determine how the foundation could<br />
best assist various community groups interested<br />
in starting up food co-ops.<br />
“The students have done a terrific job,”<br />
says Peter Kostmayer, CEO at Citizens<br />
Committee for <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City (CCNYC).<br />
“I frankly was bowled over by the research<br />
and analysis they did.” CCNYC was looking<br />
for ways that community organizations<br />
could combat vehicular noise pollution.<br />
“I always tell clients that we cannot<br />
guarantee the project will be successful,”<br />
says Andrew French, Director of the Issues<br />
Analysis Lab. “But, I have never known a<br />
client who didn’t find something that was<br />
useful in the final report. Many go on to<br />
use the recommendations in their policy<br />
making or incorporate the research findings<br />
in their own advocacy work.”<br />
The Lab focuses on a single policy<br />
question and is designed to introduce students<br />
to qualitative and quantitative techniques<br />
that can be applied to a broad range<br />
of problems. Students are divided into<br />
teams of five, given a mandate to analyze<br />
a particular issue as identified by the client,<br />
and a time frame of four to five weeks<br />
within which they must complete their<br />
analysis.<br />
For BCF, the students researched the<br />
history of successful food co-ops in <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>York</strong> City and elsewhere, contacted groups<br />
interested in starting up, and looked at examples<br />
of co-ops that had failed. The team<br />
conducted their own survey of the buying<br />
habits of Brooklyn consumers and price<br />
comparisons for various food outlets. “We<br />
had about 100 respondents,” said Aryn<br />
Bloodworth, a student on the BCF team.<br />
“Our results showed us that there is a need<br />
for fresh, affordable food in Brooklyn that<br />
is not currently being met.”<br />
Ultimately, they developed a model<br />
outlining the various stages of development<br />
for emerging co-ops, e.g., organizing, feasibility<br />
research, incorporation, member recruitment,<br />
finance, and the ultimate launch.<br />
Then, they made recommendations on how<br />
BCF could help groups<br />
at each of the various<br />
stages.<br />
“They showed us<br />
a clear process for getting<br />
from ‘a’ to ‘b’,”<br />
says Esner. “They<br />
gave us a way to talk<br />
to groups about where<br />
they are on this road<br />
map. What have they<br />
done What do they<br />
need to do They<br />
showed that if groups<br />
did certain things in<br />
step one, their chances<br />
in step two were that<br />
much better in step<br />
two, and so forth.”<br />
Students in the<br />
CCNYC team began by narrowing down<br />
their issue. “We had to zero in on what a<br />
group of private citizens, with no money<br />
other than a grant from CCNYC, could do<br />
to combat vehicular noise,” says Chandler<br />
Griffin. The answer, at least in part, was to<br />
band together with other groups concerned<br />
about the same issue. “Ultimately we<br />
wound up recommending a social network-<br />
ing site as a way to reach as many people as<br />
possible on the smallest budget.”<br />
The team envisioned a site on which<br />
concerned citizens could continually update<br />
information on vehicular noise problems,<br />
even posting pictures and videos. The students<br />
identified IPhone applications that allow<br />
users to record a noise, determine the<br />
decibel level, take a photo and post it to the<br />
net. “I might hear a motorcycle or a loud<br />
truck every morning at 7:00 a.m.,” says<br />
Griffin. “Through this site, I might learn<br />
that someone else a few blocks away hears<br />
the same thing at 6:50. Now we have an<br />
idea of the route it is taking.”<br />
In a high tech take-off on the traditional<br />
“Neighborhood Watch”, the Milano team<br />
dubbed their site “Neighborhood Listen”.<br />
Both BCF and CCNYC plan to put the<br />
students’ findings to good use. Peter Kostmayer<br />
is hopeful that some of the students<br />
may be able to stay with the project. “I<br />
would like to see some of them sign up to<br />
work with us and get credit,” he says. Esner<br />
believes BCF will use the analysis as it<br />
builds partnerships with the Brooklyn Food<br />
Coalition and the Park Slope Food Co-op.<br />
While the Milano students work on issues<br />
at no cost, there are commitments that<br />
client organizations must make. They have<br />
to develop a written “mandate” outlining<br />
their issue, meet with the team during the first<br />
week of the project, and attend the final briefing.<br />
“The students were very professional in<br />
the sense that they were committed to what<br />
they were doing and very respectful of our<br />
time,” says BCF’s Esner.<br />
The ultimate beneficiary of the students’<br />
hard work, however, is likely to be the students<br />
themselves. “The Lab is one of the<br />
reasons why I chose Milano originally,” says<br />
Chandler Griffin. “It is not just theory. It is<br />
theory in practice.”<br />
“Having a project like this is extremely<br />
valuable,” says Aryn Bloodworth. “We get<br />
thrown right into a real policy problem. We<br />
have to come up with a way to do the research<br />
and get people to talk to us. We have<br />
to develop a series of recommendations and<br />
develop a final presentation. It is exciting<br />
to know that what we are working on is not<br />
just an assignment but a real project that will<br />
serve a purpose and help a group achieve<br />
their mission.”<br />
Andrew French believes that nonprofits<br />
get more than just help with their issues<br />
when they work with the students at Milano.<br />
“They are helping to train the next generation<br />
of leaders for their sector.”<br />
For information about participating in<br />
the “Laboratory in Issues Analysis” at Milano,<br />
contact Andrew French at frencha@<br />
newschool.edu.<br />
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PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE<br />
Garza to Succeed Middleton-Jeter<br />
as ED at Henry Street Settlement<br />
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David Garza will<br />
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Garza, currently Chief<br />
Administrator of Henry<br />
Street’s Workforce Development<br />
Center (WDC), is<br />
succeeding Verona Middleton-Jeter<br />
who is retiring<br />
after 38 years at the<br />
Settlement, seven of them<br />
as Executive Director.<br />
David Garza<br />
Garza began at the<br />
WDC in July 2001 and<br />
became its Chief Administrator in 2005.<br />
Prior to joining Henry Street, he worked as<br />
a retail management executive and an independent<br />
producer for film, television and<br />
corporate marketing projects.<br />
“David’s<br />
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Garza at its February<br />
22, <strong>2010</strong>, meeting<br />
following a six-month<br />
national search. Dale<br />
Burch, Henry Street<br />
Board President, lauded<br />
David’s passion for the<br />
agency and his ability to<br />
motivate and inspire.<br />
“Today, the services<br />
Henry Street provides are more vital than<br />
ever,” said Garza. “I am honored and quite<br />
thrilled with the opportunity to build on<br />
the Settlement’s remarkable legacy as we<br />
move into the future.”<br />
“I know that I’m leaving Henry Street<br />
in good hands,” said Middleton-Jeter. “I’m<br />
confident that David will excel at leading<br />
the Settlement in the years ahead.”<br />
Garza graduated from Harvard College<br />
in 1986 and later from the Institute<br />
for Not-for-Profit Management at Columbia<br />
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Gunn Named President/CEO at Seedco<br />
Barbara Dwyer Gunn<br />
has been named President<br />
and Chief Executive Officer<br />
of the Structured Employment<br />
and Economic<br />
Development Corporation<br />
(Seedco), the <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong><br />
City-based national nonprofit<br />
organization.<br />
Gunn will join Seedco<br />
on <strong>April</strong> 1, <strong>2010</strong>, succeeding<br />
Diane Baillargeon,<br />
who announced last year<br />
that she would step down<br />
as Seedco’s President and<br />
Barbara Dwyer Gunn<br />
Seedco is a national<br />
nonprofit organization<br />
that develops and oversees<br />
programs to create<br />
new economic opportunities<br />
for low-income<br />
people and communities,<br />
as well as those<br />
recovering from disasters.<br />
The organization<br />
is involved in workforce<br />
development and assetbuilding<br />
programs in six<br />
states, as well as important<br />
anti-poverty initiatives<br />
CEO after 12 years at the organization.<br />
Gunn comes to Seedco from the<br />
American Museum of Natural History<br />
in <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>. There she served nearly 15<br />
years as the Senior Vice President for Operations<br />
and Government Relations. Gunn<br />
began her tenure at the Museum as the<br />
Vice President of Finance where she managed<br />
financial operations and the issuance<br />
of the Museum’s first bond financing.<br />
Gunn also brings to Seedco extensive<br />
public service experience, working in numerous<br />
capacities in the administration of<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City Mayor Edward I. Koch, including<br />
Director of the Mayor’s Office of<br />
Operations from 1986 to 1989.<br />
“Barbara is an acknowledged nonprofit<br />
leader who has shown strong and<br />
effective management skills in complex<br />
organizations. Both her work at the worldfamous<br />
American Museum of Natural<br />
History and her public service career have<br />
demonstrated a deep commitment to the<br />
people and communities Seedco serves,”<br />
said Dr. George A. Pruitt, Chairman of the<br />
Seedco Board.<br />
such as the innovative Opportunity<br />
NYC conditional cash transfer program in<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City.<br />
“It is a privilege to be asked to serve<br />
as chief executive of Seedco, which has<br />
become an important leader in asset building<br />
and economic development in the nonprofit<br />
world,” Gunn said.<br />
Gunn received a B.A. in English<br />
literature at the College of St. Rose in<br />
Albany and a Masters of Public Administration<br />
from the University of North<br />
Carolina at Chapel Hill. A Manhattan<br />
resident, currently she is a member of<br />
the Board of Visitors for the University<br />
of North Carolina.<br />
Diane Baillargeon has been with<br />
Seedco since 1998 and served as chief<br />
executive since 2005. She will remain<br />
actively involved with Seedco as a senior<br />
policy fellow, continuing to play an important<br />
role in shaping and developing<br />
the organization’s respected policy work.<br />
She will also continue to serve in President<br />
Obama’s Council on Faith-Based and<br />
Neighborhood Partnerships.<br />
Corriero to Step Down<br />
at Big Brothers Big Sisters NYC<br />
The Honorable Michael<br />
A. Corriero has announced<br />
that he will step<br />
down from his post as Executive<br />
Director of Big<br />
Brothers Big Sisters of <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>York</strong> City at the conclusion<br />
of the fiscal year to focus<br />
his efforts as an advocate<br />
for children and juvenile<br />
justice reform locally and<br />
nationally.<br />
Judge Corriero recently<br />
served on the <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong><br />
State Task Force on Transforming<br />
Juvenile Justice;<br />
Judge Michael A. Corriero<br />
he will continue to work for reforms that<br />
improve the opportunities of children living<br />
in the poorest communities.<br />
“My work with Big Brothers Big<br />
Sisters of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City, first as a board<br />
member and then more recently as its<br />
executive director, has been a phenomenal<br />
experience,” said Judge Corriero. “I<br />
am extremely grateful<br />
for the opportunity to<br />
serve such a noble organization<br />
and for the<br />
trust placed in me by<br />
the Board of Trustees. I<br />
will always consider it<br />
an honor to have served<br />
as executive director of<br />
the agency.”<br />
“Judge Corriero<br />
brought a unique perspective<br />
to the agency,”<br />
said Jon May, President<br />
of the BigsNYC Board<br />
of Trustees. “The Board<br />
of Trustees looks forward to his work in<br />
finding national and international solutions<br />
to better guide juveniles in trouble.”<br />
BigsNYC will launch a national<br />
search for a new executive director.<br />
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PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE<br />
Capobianco <strong>New</strong> Executive Director<br />
at Catalog for Giving NYC<br />
Mike Capobianco has<br />
been named Executive Director<br />
for The Catalog for<br />
Giving of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City.<br />
Capobianco comes<br />
to The Catalog from <strong>New</strong><br />
Leaders for <strong>New</strong> Schools,<br />
where he was National Director.<br />
His experience also<br />
includes a blend of skills<br />
developed in both the forprofit<br />
and nonprofit sectors<br />
at Scantron Corporation,<br />
Technology Solutions Corporation,<br />
and Per Scholas,<br />
Mike Capobianco<br />
an organization that utilizes technology<br />
to help transform the lives of low-income<br />
families.<br />
“I first became involved with The Catalog<br />
five years ago when I was the Director<br />
of Strategic Partnerships of Computers for<br />
Youth (CFY), a member organization at the<br />
time,” says Capobianco. “With the help<br />
of The Catalog, CFY has gone on to serve<br />
thousands of school children in <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong><br />
City and across the country. As Executive<br />
Director, I’m looking forward to mentoring<br />
professionals in the field and sharing<br />
my significant experience while providing<br />
the leadership to deepen<br />
The Catalog’s positive<br />
impact on the <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong><br />
City community.”<br />
The mission of The<br />
Catalog for Giving is to<br />
transform the lives of<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City children<br />
and teens whose opportunities<br />
are severely limited<br />
by poverty, crime,<br />
drugs and violence. The<br />
Catalog identifies emerging<br />
local organizations<br />
and designates funds to<br />
support their efforts. Expenses of The Catalog<br />
for Giving are fully funded by its board<br />
of directors, thus 100 percent of donations<br />
support the featured organizations and the<br />
young people they serve. Since its inception<br />
in 1994, The Catalog has raised over $10<br />
million for its programs and helped transform<br />
the lives of nearly 150,000 children<br />
across the five boroughs.<br />
Capobianco holds an undergraduate<br />
degree in business administration from<br />
Towson University in Towson, Maryland<br />
and an MPA from Baruch College in <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>York</strong> City.<br />
Shapiro Appointed Executive Director<br />
at The Door<br />
first major welfare to<br />
work initiative.<br />
“It is with great<br />
excitement that we announce<br />
Ms. Shapiro’s<br />
addition to our team,”<br />
says Michael Zisser,<br />
Chief Executive Officer<br />
of The Door. “At a time<br />
when young people<br />
come to us in record<br />
numbers seeking critical<br />
services, I am confident<br />
that Ms. Shapiro’s<br />
leadership will take us<br />
to new heights as we continue to provide<br />
the highest quality programs for <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong><br />
City youth.”<br />
Shapiro received her undergraduate<br />
degree in Psychology and Women’s<br />
Studies from Brown University, and her<br />
Master in Public Policy from the John<br />
F. Kennedy School of<br />
Government at Har-<br />
Julie L. Shapiro has<br />
been named the new Executive<br />
Director at The<br />
Door, a leading <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong><br />
City youth development<br />
agency.<br />
Shapiro comes to<br />
The Door with 16 years<br />
experience designing and<br />
implementing large scale,<br />
high impact, multi-partner<br />
human service and<br />
workforce development<br />
initiatives. Most recently Julie L. Shapiro<br />
she served as Senior Vice<br />
President at Seedco where she oversaw the<br />
development, management and growth of<br />
nationally recognized workforce development<br />
programs, including one of the country’s<br />
busiest One Stop Career Centers in<br />
Upper Manhattan.<br />
Prior to joining Seedco, Shapiro was<br />
Assistant Vice President for Welfare to<br />
Work Services at Federation Employment<br />
and Guidance Services (F.E.G.S). She has vard University. She<br />
also been a Project Manager in the <strong>New</strong> is a board member<br />
<strong>York</strong> City Human Resources Administration’s<br />
Office of Policy and Program Anal-<br />
Employment and<br />
of the <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City<br />
ysis, where she helped launch the City’s Training Coalition.<br />
I<br />
NYNP<br />
McGloin Retires from<br />
Guild for Exceptional Children<br />
Dr. Thomas Mc-<br />
been opened under<br />
Gloin, Assistant Director<br />
for Residential Services<br />
for The Guild for Exceptional<br />
Children, Inc. has<br />
announced his retirement<br />
after 30 years of dedicated<br />
service to the agency. Paul<br />
Cassone, Executive Director/CEO<br />
and the Guild’s<br />
Board of Directors join<br />
with the hundreds of staff,<br />
the auspices of the<br />
Guild. A staff of 35<br />
has grown to a staff<br />
of almost 400.<br />
Prior to joining<br />
the Guild, McGloin<br />
worked at U.C.P.,<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City from<br />
1979 to 1981, serving<br />
people with cerebral<br />
palsy.<br />
consumers and families at<br />
Earlier in his<br />
the Guild in thanking Dr.<br />
career McGloin had<br />
McGloin for his tireless Dr. Thomas McGloin<br />
entered the priesthood,<br />
commitment to the development<br />
and enhancement of services for<br />
individuals with developmental disabilities<br />
in the Bay Ridge community.<br />
McGloin came to the Guild for Exceptional<br />
Children, Inc. as Residence Director<br />
in October of 1981 when the Guild was a<br />
small Agency with just three group homes.<br />
Since then, under Dr. McGloin’s leadership,<br />
10 additional 24 hour supervised residences<br />
and 4 supportive apartments have<br />
serving in a<br />
variety of positions, including as Pastor of<br />
St. Catherine of Sienna Parish in St. Albans<br />
Queens and Retreat Master for Army<br />
and Navy Chaplains in Japan and Korea in<br />
1972 and in Germany 1973.<br />
McGloin earned his bachelors degree<br />
from Cathedral College and advanced degrees<br />
from Catholic University and St.<br />
John’s University. In 1975, he earned his<br />
Doctorate from <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> University.<br />
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PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE<br />
Stoehr Joins Graham Windham<br />
Katherine Stoehr has<br />
joined Graham Windham<br />
as Vice President for Family<br />
to Benefit Children. She<br />
has a Master’s Degree<br />
in Public Administra-<br />
Permanency Planning<br />
tion from Columbia<br />
Services. She will oversee<br />
the agency’s family foster<br />
care and adoption services.<br />
Stoehr comes to Graham<br />
Windham from the Administration<br />
for Children’s<br />
Services were she has been<br />
serving as Assistant Commissioner<br />
University’s School of<br />
International and Public<br />
Affairs and a BA in Politics<br />
and Philosophy from<br />
the University of Pittsburgh<br />
where she graduated<br />
Summa Cum Laude<br />
and was a Chancellor’s<br />
for Program<br />
Scholar and nominee<br />
Policy and Development in<br />
the Division of Child Protection.<br />
Katherine Stoehr<br />
for Rhodes and Marshall<br />
Scholarships.<br />
Before that, she served as Special<br />
Advisor to Commissioner Mattingly focusing<br />
on the implementation of major child<br />
welfare initiatives and before that as Interim<br />
Director of the ACS Office of Placement.<br />
Previously, Stoehr served as Coordinator<br />
of Quality, Evaluation and Improvement<br />
at Catholic Guardian Society and as Director<br />
of Quality Assurance at the Association<br />
“Katie has a deep knowledge of child<br />
welfare practice, ACS’ reform initiatives<br />
and the dynamics of organizational change,”<br />
said Poul Jensen, President and CEO. “We<br />
are very pleased that she will be bringing her<br />
expertise and commitment to serving children<br />
and families to Graham Windham.”<br />
Stoehr will take up her new position on<br />
May 10th.<br />
Abbott House Names Sr. VP/CFO<br />
and Director of Finance<br />
Abbott House has announced<br />
two new appointments<br />
to its finance department:<br />
Senior Vice President<br />
and Chief Financial Officer<br />
Gerard P. Finn and Director<br />
of Finance Dan Margoshes.<br />
“Astute financial oversight<br />
has arguably never<br />
been more important than it<br />
is now,” said Abbott House<br />
President/CEO Claude B.<br />
Meyers. “I’m confident<br />
that the experience and acumen of both<br />
Mr. Finn and Mr. Margoshes will strengthen<br />
the financial foundation of our agency<br />
as we chart a course through these challenging<br />
times.”<br />
“I am thrilled to join the staff of Abbott<br />
House as the organization’s new Senior<br />
Vice President and CFO,” said Finn, a Certified<br />
Public Accountant with over 25 years of<br />
experience including strong familiarity with<br />
OMRDD funding and rate-setting. “It is my<br />
intention to work with the agency’s board of<br />
directors and executive staff to make Abbott<br />
House stronger, more efficient and more robust<br />
than it has ever been.”<br />
Dan Margoshes and Gerard P. Finn<br />
Director of Finance Margoshes<br />
echoed the sentiment: “An organization’s<br />
best practices begin in finance and operational<br />
budgeting,” he said. “I look forward<br />
to providing the financial direction that<br />
will lead Abbott House into a position of<br />
long-term sustainability as it continues<br />
its service to children and families.” Margoshes<br />
comes to Abbott House from the<br />
National Football League, where he held a<br />
variety of strategic and operational finance<br />
roles, most recently providing financial<br />
oversight of the NFL’s international business<br />
activities as Vice President, International<br />
Finance.<br />
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Leake & Watts Appoints Davidson<br />
Director of Mother/Infant Program<br />
Leake & Watts has<br />
named Deborah Davidson<br />
to be the Director of<br />
Mother/Infant program<br />
in the Bronx serving teen<br />
mothers in foster care as<br />
well as their babies.<br />
Most recently, Davidson<br />
was the Program Coordinator/Supervisor<br />
of<br />
the Baby & Me and Parent-Child<br />
Home Programs<br />
at SCO Families of Services<br />
which uses books Deborah Davidson<br />
and toys as the tools to<br />
increase literary and communication skills<br />
as well as enhance social-emotional development,<br />
and strengthen the parent-child<br />
relationship.<br />
Bringing her experience with teen<br />
mothers in early childhood<br />
education to her<br />
new role, Davidson<br />
stated: “Leake & Watts<br />
is doing great work in<br />
the community. I look<br />
forward to building<br />
upon the foundation of<br />
success that has already<br />
been established in the<br />
Mother/Infant program.”<br />
Davidson has a<br />
Master Degree in Social<br />
Work from Hunter College<br />
and a Bachelor of<br />
Arts in Psychology from Baruch College.<br />
She is also trained in SPIN, a strengthsbased<br />
practice focusing on the identification<br />
and augmentation of every individual’s<br />
strengths and resources.<br />
CAPC’s Chen Named to Charter<br />
Revision Commission<br />
David Chen, Executive Director of<br />
the Chinese-American Planning Council<br />
Inc., has been named to the <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong><br />
City Charter Revision Commission. In<br />
addition to his role at CAPC, Chen is the<br />
founding Chairman of the Board of Di-<br />
rectors of the Chung Pak Local Development<br />
Corporation. He is also a member<br />
of the board of the Chinatown Partnership<br />
Local Development Corporation and<br />
served as a Commissioner on the 2004-<br />
2005 Charter Revision Commission.
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PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE<br />
UCP Suffolk Appoints Wolf Director<br />
of Health Center Operations<br />
Peter Wolf has joined<br />
United Cerebral Palsy Association<br />
of Suffolk as<br />
Director of Health Center<br />
Operations. Wolf will<br />
oversee the administration<br />
and fiscal operations of<br />
UCP’s three Health Centers<br />
located in Central Islip,<br />
Hauppauge and Port Jefferson<br />
Station.<br />
“Peter Wolf brings with<br />
him an impressive background<br />
in the healthcare<br />
Peter Wolf<br />
field and a fiscal acuity which will help<br />
further expand UCP Suffolk’s delivery of<br />
quality medical and therapeutic services to<br />
persons with disabilities,” said President/<br />
CEO Stephen H. Friedman.<br />
Prior to joining the UCP Suffolk<br />
executive team, Wolf<br />
was the Senior Network<br />
Vice President/Special<br />
Director of the Southern<br />
Brooklyn/Staten Island<br />
Health Network. Previously,<br />
he held the positions<br />
of Chief Operating<br />
and Financial Officer<br />
at Coney Island Hospital,<br />
Chief Financial<br />
Officer at North Bronx<br />
Healthcare Network,<br />
and Chief Financial Officer<br />
for the Lincoln Medical and Mental<br />
Health Center.<br />
Wolf holds a Master degree in Planning<br />
from Harvard University and a Bachelor<br />
of Arts degree from the State University<br />
of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> at Albany.<br />
Sampogna Joins Leake & Watts<br />
Susan Sampogna has<br />
joined Leake & Watts as<br />
the new Director of the<br />
Residential Treatment Center<br />
on the Yonkers campus<br />
which serves youth ages<br />
12-21 in need of therapeutic<br />
and educational support<br />
Sampogna comes to<br />
Leake & Watts from the<br />
Administration for Children’s<br />
Services, having recently<br />
served as the Director<br />
of the Office of Safety Susan Sampogna<br />
First, a hotline available to<br />
mandated reporters who have ongoing safety<br />
concerns related to open child protective<br />
investigations.<br />
“I am delighted to join the team at<br />
Leake & Watts when so much expansion<br />
Kenneth C. Thompson, MBA, CPA has<br />
joined nonprofit HealthCare Chaplaincy in<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> as Chief Financial Officer.<br />
For the past decade, Thompson has<br />
worked in the not-for-profit sector in the<br />
fields of finance and accounting. Most recently<br />
he served as Vice President, Finance<br />
and Administration at the United Nations<br />
Association of the USA. Previously he was<br />
Assistant Director, Administration and Finance,<br />
at the Courant Institute of Mathematand<br />
diversification of<br />
services is already in motion,”<br />
says Sampogna,<br />
“It is the opportunity to<br />
make a real difference<br />
at such an exciting time<br />
for the organization.” In<br />
addition, Sampogna has<br />
experience as Director of<br />
Social Services in Congregate<br />
Care at Catholic<br />
Guardian Society and<br />
is a Faculty Advisor at<br />
the Fordham University<br />
Graduate School of Social<br />
Service.<br />
Sampogna has a Master Degree in<br />
Social Work from Tulane University and a<br />
Bachelor of Arts from with a major in Clinical<br />
Sociology from Ithaca College.<br />
Rivera <strong>New</strong> VP at Exponents, Inc.<br />
Sam Rivera has been<br />
appointed Vice President<br />
of Exponents, Inc. The<br />
announcement was made<br />
by Exponents’ Founder<br />
and President Howard<br />
Josepher, LCSW at the<br />
108th graduation of the<br />
ARRIVE Program.<br />
“Like many of us at<br />
Exponents, Sam turned<br />
his life around from one<br />
of drugs and crime to<br />
become a contributing<br />
member of society,” said<br />
Josepher. “He is an example of the transformative<br />
power of turning a negative into<br />
a positive and becoming a source of healing<br />
and hope for others.”<br />
Rivera graduated ARRIVE in 1992<br />
and has been working with the agency<br />
since 2007. He has 20 years of direct and<br />
administrative experience in substance<br />
abuse treatment, criminal<br />
justice and HIV/AIDS prevention<br />
and care. He is the former<br />
Community Co-Chair of the NYC<br />
HIV Prevention Planning Group,<br />
a former member of the NYC Department<br />
of Health Commissioner’s<br />
Advisory Board and former<br />
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Rivera’s appointment is<br />
part of Exponents’ strategic<br />
plan to ensure the<br />
agency’s continued legacy<br />
providing strengthbased<br />
programs focusing<br />
on the health and<br />
wellness of participants.<br />
“I want everyone to<br />
know that I believe the<br />
agency would be in good hands should my<br />
role change,” said Josepher. “For now, I<br />
don’t see that happening and I want people<br />
who care to welcome and accept this<br />
announcement with happiness for Sam<br />
and understanding that we are looking out<br />
for the future.”<br />
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PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE<br />
Egan Named VP Program Services<br />
at UCP Suffolk<br />
Eileen McDonald<br />
munity Residences and<br />
Egan has been appointed<br />
Vice President, Program<br />
Services at United Cerebral<br />
Palsy Association of<br />
Suffolk. She will oversee<br />
Adult Day Services, the<br />
Community Program Center<br />
(CPC), Educational<br />
and Residential Services.<br />
“I am confident Ms.<br />
Program Development and<br />
Special Projects at Nassau<br />
AHRC and Director, Residential<br />
Services at new England<br />
Villages in Pembroke<br />
Massachusetts.<br />
Egan joins the organization<br />
with over twenty-five<br />
years experience in the field<br />
of special education, developmental<br />
disabilities, and<br />
Egan’s extensive background<br />
and experience Eileen McDonald Egan advocacy. She holds a Master<br />
developing and managing<br />
OMRDD, State Education Department and<br />
Department of Health programs coupled<br />
with her leadership qualities make her an<br />
excellent addition to our executive team,”<br />
said President/CEO Stephen H. Friedman.<br />
“Her talents will greatly enhance the unparalleled<br />
service currently provided by<br />
UCP Suffolk.”<br />
Before joining UCP Suffolk, Egan<br />
was the Vice President, Special Needs at<br />
Terence Cardinal Cook Health Center in<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City. Previously, she held the<br />
positions of Assistant Executive Director<br />
at the Shield Institute, Director of Comfrom<br />
of Public Health degree<br />
Yale University’s School of Medicine,<br />
a Masters of Arts degree from State<br />
University of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> at Stony Brook<br />
and is a graduate of Southern Connecticut<br />
State University.<br />
UCP Suffolk, based in Hauppauge,<br />
NY, provides services to 4,000 children<br />
and adults with disabilities annually and<br />
65% of those served are individuals with<br />
a disability other than cerebral palsy. Job<br />
training and placement, physical therapy,<br />
individual and family support, early intervention,<br />
preschool, school age, adult day<br />
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Hollywood <strong>New</strong> Assistant VP<br />
at Samaritan Village<br />
James Hollywood<br />
tor of Samaritan’s Intensive<br />
LCSW has been appointed<br />
Assistant Vice President<br />
of Residential Programs<br />
at Samaritan Village, Inc.<br />
Hollywood’s responsibilities<br />
will include providing<br />
clinical leadership and<br />
management at Samaritan’s<br />
Ellenville, Van Wyck,<br />
Outpatient Program,<br />
was promoted to the position<br />
of Assistant Vice<br />
President for Program<br />
Development.<br />
Hollywood is an experienced<br />
clinical manager<br />
with over 22 years<br />
of experience working<br />
Highbridge, Richmond<br />
in the fields of substance<br />
Hill, and 53rd Street programs.<br />
abuse, mental health and<br />
homeless services. Most<br />
James Hollywood<br />
The announcement<br />
recently, he served as<br />
follows a series of other senior management<br />
appointments at Samaritan Village by President/CEO<br />
Tino Hernandez. In October, the<br />
agency named Sheila Greene to be Vice<br />
President of Communications and Intergovernmental<br />
Affairs. At the same time, Carol<br />
Davidson LCSW, CASAC was promoted<br />
to Senior Director of Veterans Services. In<br />
December Steve Rockman, Program Direc-<br />
Senior Director for Residential Services<br />
at Palladia. Prior to working with Palladia,<br />
Hollywood was the Program Director of<br />
Urban Pathway’s Olivieri Center for Homeless<br />
Women.<br />
Hollywood holds a BA in Sociology<br />
from St. John’s University and an MSW<br />
from Hunter College School of Social<br />
Work.<br />
Daymond Promoted at SIMHS<br />
The Staten Island Mental<br />
Health Society (SIMHS) has<br />
named Valarie M. Daymond,<br />
LCSW to be Director of its<br />
Teen Center, Project for Academic<br />
Student Success (PASS),<br />
and Afterschool GED Preparation<br />
Program. Daymond will<br />
continue to lead SIMH’s Family<br />
Support Mental Health Program,<br />
where she has served as<br />
Director since 2003.<br />
Daymond joined the<br />
SIMHS in 1996 as a social<br />
worker in the agency’s Family<br />
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and was named that<br />
program’s director<br />
two years later.<br />
Prior to joining the<br />
SIMHS, she was a<br />
caseworker, and later<br />
a supervisor, for<br />
the <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City<br />
Administration for<br />
Children’s Services.<br />
“Valarie Daymond<br />
has demonstrated<br />
exemplary<br />
Valerie Daymond, LCSW<br />
work with the children<br />
and families who receive services at<br />
the Family Support Center,” said SIMHS<br />
President/CEO Dr. Kenneth Popler. “Her<br />
aptitude and experience, combined with her<br />
superior interpersonal and leadership skills,<br />
will ensure that she will be also be an extraordinary<br />
director of our various programs<br />
for adolescents coping with mental health<br />
and chemical dependency challenges.”<br />
Daymond earned her BS degree from<br />
the University of Florida, and her MSW degree<br />
from the Wurzweiler School of Social<br />
Work of Yeshiva University, Manhattan.<br />
The Teen Center provides treatment<br />
services to adolescents and young adults<br />
who are dependent on alcohol and/or drugs<br />
or whose family members are challenged by<br />
chemical addictions. PASS provides alcohol/<br />
drug prevention services and free academic<br />
tutoring for at-risk preteens and teens. Both<br />
programs have sites in St. George and Great<br />
Kills locations. The GED Preparation Program<br />
is located in St. George.<br />
The Family Support Center provides<br />
bi-lingual outpatient mental health services<br />
for children up to age 18 and their families,<br />
as well as an array of support services.
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EVENTS<br />
NYNP Fire Safety Conference<br />
More than 150 representatives from 50 nonprofit agencies turned out on March 10th to learn the<br />
latest on new fire safety regulations and initiatives impacting nonprofit service providers. The free<br />
Fire Safety Conference was jointly sponsored by NYNP, Briscoe Protective Systems and Metropolitan<br />
College of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>.<br />
Attendees got an update on the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities’<br />
new fire safety initiative which comes in response to last year’s tragic fire at an OMRDD residence in<br />
Wells, NY. No new mandates have been issued to OMRDD licensed providers as of yet, said Sheila<br />
McBain, Deputy Commissioner for Quality Management. However, she urged agencies to review<br />
the 16 recommendations outlined by OMRDD’s Fire Safety Panel of State and National Experts in<br />
their Final Report to the Commissioner issued in February as a way to anticipate steps that might be<br />
forthcoming. Charles Kearley, Director of OMRDD’s new Office of Safety and Security Services,<br />
offered an overview of the agency’s current planning process in this area.<br />
Bob Williams, President of Briscoe Protective Systems, provided training for testing on the <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>York</strong> Fire Department’s new requirements for “Certificate of Fitness for Supervision of Fire Alarm<br />
Systems and Other Related Systems” which impacts thousands of agencies in operating facilities<br />
which were not previously subject to Certificate of Fitness requirements.<br />
An overview of the new Amanda’s Law requirements for carbon monoxide detectors was provided<br />
by Dana Ferrer, District Sales Manager for EST Fire and Sound.<br />
Additional insights into fire and life safety issues were provided by architect James Vassalotti of<br />
Vassalotti Associates; Rob Storey, Director of Risk Management at Irwin Siegel Agency; and Joseph<br />
Woznica, Deputy Assist. Chief, Bureau of Fire Protection, NYFD.<br />
Agencies and individuals interested in learning more about or obtaining training for the newlyrequired<br />
NYFD Certificate of Fitness for Supervision of Fire Alarm Systems and Other Related Systems<br />
can contact Briscoe Protective Systems at 888-274-7263.<br />
NYNP Publisher Robby Long introduces panelists (from left) Fred Scaglione, Editor<br />
of NYNP; Charles Kearley, Director of OMRDD’s new Office of Safety and Security<br />
Services; Sheila McBain, Deputy Commissioner for Quality Management, OMRDD;<br />
Bob Williams, President of Briscoe Protective Systems; and Rob Storey, Director of<br />
Risk Management at Irwin Siegel Agency.<br />
VCG Celebrates 40th Anniversary;<br />
Honors Harlem RBI<br />
Volunteer Consulting Group<br />
(VCG) celebrated its 40th Anniversary<br />
on March 10th at the Harvard<br />
Club of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City. As part of<br />
this event, it honored the Board of<br />
Harlem RBI with the First Annual<br />
Brooke W. Mahoney Award for<br />
Outstanding Board Leadership.<br />
VCG works regionally and<br />
nationally to strengthen nonprofit<br />
boards’ governance and management<br />
capabilities. It recognized<br />
Harlem RBI’s Board of Directors<br />
for their ability to “step up” during<br />
an economically challenging<br />
time. Harlem RBI’s Board donated<br />
more than $700,000 in the face of<br />
the global economic crisis in 2009,<br />
a 100% increase from the previous<br />
Peter Daneker (Board Director), Richard Berlin<br />
(Harlem RBI Executive Director), Kenneth Rosh<br />
(Board Chairman and President), Robert Sheehan<br />
(Board Director and Vice President), Ray Dominguez<br />
(Board Director and Harlem RBI Alumnus) and Stuart<br />
A. Fraser (Board Director).<br />
year. The Harlem RBI Board also developed a 12 step “Guide to Protecting Harlem RBI<br />
in Uncertain Times” that other non-profits are adopting nationally to take steps toward<br />
safeguarding their own finances. Harlem RBI is a 19-year-old youth-development organization<br />
in East Harlem.<br />
The VGC’s John C. Whitehead, along with its three other Founders, T.J. Dermot Dunphy,<br />
Harold Tanner and Byron R. Wien, served as Honorary Founding Co-Chairmen of the<br />
Anniversary Celebration. The event honored VCG’s four decades of service and paid tribute<br />
to Brooke W. Mahoney, VCG’s first Executive Director, who passed away in 2007.<br />
“Brooke, a nationally renown governance leader and innovator, was passionate about<br />
opening non-profit boardrooms to the talent, expertise and diversity required to ensure successful<br />
organizations,” said VCG’s Executive Director David LaGreca.During the nominating<br />
process, VCG looked for non-profits that demonstrated strategic board recruitment,<br />
clear communication of expectations, successful evaluation systems, a culture of problem<br />
solving, a deep passion for the mission and mechanisms for hearing the voices of those<br />
served.<br />
The four finalists for the award included: Brotherhood/Sister Sol, Community Voices<br />
Heard, COSIA and The Fortune Society. The Brooke W. Mahoney Award was made possible<br />
with support from The Rauch Foundation<br />
St. Dominic’s Raises Close to $1 million<br />
at Awards Dinner<br />
The 29th Annual<br />
Friends of St.<br />
Dominic’s Business<br />
& Labor Awards<br />
Dinner raised more<br />
than $935,000 for<br />
the agency this year.<br />
Over 1,090 leaders of<br />
business and labor/<br />
construction trade<br />
organizations turned<br />
out for the January<br />
26th event which was<br />
held at the Waldorf-<br />
Astoria.<br />
Michael V. Belluzzi,<br />
President and<br />
Award recipients Michael V. Belluzzi (l.) and Thomas R. Nelson<br />
(r) with Rosanna Scotto, John T. White, Sr. Joseph Mary<br />
Mahoney and Executive Director Judy Kydon.<br />
Business Manager<br />
of the Sheet Metal Workers International Association Local Union No. 28, and<br />
Thomas R. Nelson, Senior Managing Director of CB Richard Ellis in the Northeast<br />
Region, were recipients of the Francis J.P. McHale Memorial Award and the Victory<br />
Award, respectively.<br />
Fox 5’s “Good Day <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>” co-host Rosanna Scotto served as the dinner’s<br />
mistress of ceremonies and introduced the Saint Dominic’s Home new “Did<br />
You Know” video. Sr. Joseph Mary Mahoney, O.P., President of Friends of Saint<br />
Dominic’s, thanked the room full of supporters and expressed the organization’s<br />
gratitude for their continued generous support of Saint Dominic’s Home in such<br />
difficult economic times.<br />
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JOBS JOBS JOBS<br />
Director of Operations<br />
for CYO<br />
Catholic Youth Organization, a division of Catholic<br />
Charities Community Services, Archdiocese of <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>York</strong>, is seeking a Director of Operations. CYO assists and<br />
supports parishes in developing vibrant parish youth ministry<br />
programs—spiritual, cultural, and athletic—for young people<br />
throughout the boroughs and upstate counties. The Director<br />
of Operations will be responsible for the development and<br />
implementation of an over arching structure for effective<br />
parish-based youth programming. Supervision of county<br />
directors and promoting awareness and support for the activities<br />
of CYO. BA in Sports Mgmt., Recreation, Education or<br />
related field. Minimum 5yrs related exp. Must be flexible with<br />
schedule. Weekend/evening hrs required. 90K<br />
Send resume and cover letter indicating position of interest<br />
and salary requirements to:<br />
Catholic Charities<br />
Human Resources Dept.<br />
1011 First Avenue<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>, NY 10022<br />
Fax: (212) 826-8795<br />
Email: cccsjobs@archny.org<br />
Social Worker<br />
Astor Services for Children & Families seeks a Social<br />
Worker for our Residential Treatment Facility in Rhinebeck.<br />
Candidate will provide services to children and families on assigned<br />
caseloads including direct supportive treatment services<br />
appropriate to meeting the needs in the case and helping the<br />
client get connected to other needed services. Serves as a<br />
liaison with the family and with outside agencies; works as a<br />
member of a multi-disciplinary treatment team consisting of a<br />
psychiatrist, psychologist, special education teacher as well as<br />
nursing and direct care staff.<br />
Requirements: LMSW and eligibility for the NY State licensing.<br />
Will consider candidates in process of MSW<br />
Benefits:<br />
Four weeks annual vacation, 4 personal days, 12 holidays, 12<br />
sick days,. Fully paid life, long term disability, and dental.<br />
Email resumes to cbagnall@astorservices.org<br />
Please Reference Job Code: 77SW<br />
FAMILY LAW/DOMESTIC<br />
VIOLENCE ATTORNEY<br />
Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation (NMIC)<br />
serves the Washington Heights and Inwood communities. All NMIC<br />
services are bilingual in English and Spanish.<br />
NMIC seeks an experienced domestic violence/family law attorney<br />
to join its Legal Services Department and NMIC’s Domestic Violence<br />
Project (DVP), an interdisciplinary team of social workers and legal professionals<br />
who assist low income victims of intimate partner violence.<br />
Requires representation in Family Court and Integrated Domestic<br />
Violence Court; filing DV-based immigration petitions; advocacy in<br />
other civil law areas as needed, representing the project at various<br />
meetings; conducting training seminars; providing consultations and<br />
technical assistance; advise in matrimonial matters; and referrals for<br />
other services.<br />
Applicants must be admitted in NYS and have relevant litigation experience.<br />
Spanish language ability is required. Experience in other areas<br />
of legal services/public interest law practice a plus.<br />
Competitive salary, four weeks vacation, 14 holidays, health, life and<br />
dental insurance, long term disability, employee assistance program,<br />
employer contribution 401(k) and other generous time-off benefits.<br />
Send resume/cover/writing sample (with position<br />
in subject line) to NMIC, Human Resources<br />
Director, 76 Wadsworth Avenue, NY, NY 10033 or<br />
employment@nmic.org or fax to (212) 928-4180.<br />
NMIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.<br />
DIRECT CARE COUNSELORS<br />
Southern Westchester Non-Profit Mental Health Agency seeks<br />
F/T, P/T, Overnight, Relief & Weekend Direct Care Counselors<br />
with excellent interpersonal and communication skills to provide<br />
restorative services to recipients recovering from mental illness<br />
& substance abuse. Clean driver’s license/Car Req’d. Excellent<br />
benefits, 401K & tuition reimbursement. Competitive Salary. Fax<br />
salary requirements & resume to Kathy (914) 835-8905 EOE<br />
Sr Dir. – MR/DD<br />
Brooklyn based agency seeks leader to oversee ICF, IRA, transitional,<br />
employment pgm, and MSC svcs in NYC. Applicant must<br />
have B.A and extensive onsite exp. In residential/clinic services with<br />
MR/DD consumers. M.S Preferred. Position involves managerial/<br />
admin oversite of staff, consumer benefits, billing, QA and Compliance.<br />
Required: On-Call, Valid Driver’s License, Car, computer<br />
literacy. Competitive salary with comprehensive benefits package<br />
Forward resume to cemanuel@artcny.org<br />
ABBOTT HOUSE, an innovative multi-service agency, seeks<br />
the following professionals:<br />
CHILD PSYCHIATRIST(PT)/<br />
PSYCHOLOGIST (FT)<br />
Irvington, NY<br />
Seeking board eligible/board certified part time Child Psychiatrist,<br />
M.D. flexible hours up to 14 hours per week. Expertise in psychopharmacology<br />
with excellent clinical skills. Bilingual spanish a<br />
strong plus.<br />
Also seeking full time NYS Licensed Psychologist, PhD/PsyD.<br />
Experience in trauma therapeutic modalities preferred.<br />
To work with multi-disciplinary team serving children in Residential<br />
Treatment Center and Foster care programs.<br />
SOCIAL WORKERS<br />
• Therapeutic Foster Boarding Homes- Westchester, Bronx,<br />
Montgomery or Dutchess<br />
• Group Homes- Mt. Kisco<br />
LMSW, LMSW Eligible. To provide clinical and case management<br />
services to children, adolescents and families in foster care. Min.<br />
1 yr of Social Work exp. Knowledge of ACS/DSS systems-CON-<br />
NECTIONS preferred or excellent computer skills.<br />
Valid driver’s license & car required.<br />
Competitive salary. Excellent benefits package.<br />
Fax or e-mail resume with cover letter & salary requirements to:<br />
914-591-9435, HR Dept hr@abbotthouse.net<br />
ABBOTT HOUSE<br />
100 N. Broadway<br />
Irvington NY 10533<br />
Visit us at www.abbotthouse.net<br />
EOE<br />
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES<br />
APPLIED BEHAVIOR SCIENCE SPECIALIST<br />
QUALIFICATIONS<br />
We are currently seeking (1) ABSS. Applicants must have a Bachelor’s/Master<br />
degree in psychology with a minimum of one year experience working<br />
with the MRDD population. Also, the must be SCIP-R and CPR/First Aid<br />
Certified.<br />
Identify resident strengths and needs in the area of cognitive skills, adaptive<br />
behavior, and social and affect development and behavior/emotional functioning.<br />
Development of programming to meet resident needs. Primary liaison<br />
with outside therapists and psychiatrist and monitor psychiatric treatment.<br />
SALARY - Negotiable<br />
We offer competitive salaries and benefit package. Interested parties should<br />
send their resume to:<br />
Paul J. Cooper Center for Human Services, Inc.<br />
519 Rockaway Avenue, 2nd Floor Brooklyn, NY 11212<br />
Attention Personnel Department<br />
Email: TeresaStewart@pauljcooper.org<br />
Harlem Children’s Zone Promise<br />
Academy Charter Schools are currently<br />
recruiting for Teachers and other schools personnel<br />
for the <strong>2010</strong>-2011 school year. Come and explore the<br />
opportunities that we have available.<br />
Event: Career Fair<br />
Date: <strong>April</strong>, 9th, <strong>2010</strong><br />
Location: 35 East 125th Street, <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>, NY<br />
10035<br />
Time: 4:30pm-7:00pm<br />
SOCIAL WORKERS (INDIVIDUAL CARE<br />
COORDINATORS) needed to provide<br />
individualized services and service coordination<br />
to seriously emotionally disturbed children and<br />
families. MSW or related master’s degree plus<br />
two years exp., or BA plus four years exp. with this<br />
population. Excellent benefits. Positions available<br />
in Bronx and Rockland County. To apply on line<br />
and to view other positions,<br />
visit our website www.stdomincshome.org,<br />
and click on employment. or go to URL:<br />
https://home.eease.com/recruit/id=492915.<br />
EOE<br />
WAIVER SERVICE PROVIDER<br />
COORDINATOR -<br />
BRIDGES TO HEALTH (B2H)<br />
The Waiver Service Provider Coordinator (WSPC)<br />
works collaboratively with the B2H WSP Administrative<br />
Team in the recruitment and screening of Waiver Service<br />
Providers (WSPs) for the Bridges to Health program.<br />
The WSPC will schedule and track WSPs participation in<br />
required trainings. The WSPC will coordinate and match<br />
WSPs with children and their families based on interest,<br />
commonalities and scheduling. The WSPC will work in<br />
conjuction with the WSP Administrative Supervisor in providing<br />
ongoing supervision to all WSPs to ensure quality<br />
services for the B2H program. The WSPC will review and<br />
ensure that all agency, ACS and OCFS mandates have<br />
been met.<br />
Qualifications, skills and abilities:<br />
MSW preferred, Solid organizational skills, Knowledgeable<br />
with Microsoft Office, Bilingual preferred, Flexible<br />
work schedule, Must have good interpersonal skills and<br />
be able to work with people from various demographics.<br />
Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE)<br />
Please email resumes to ilora@cgshb.org,<br />
fax to 212-421-1709 or mail to I. Lora,<br />
Catholic Guardian Society and Home Bureau,<br />
1011 First Avenue, 10th floor <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>, NY 10022<br />
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WAIVER SERVICE PROVIDER (WSP)<br />
- PART-TIME<br />
The Bridges to Health (B2H) Waiver program is designed to provide community-based<br />
health care services and support to children in foster care or DJJOY,<br />
or who have been discharged from foster care. The program provides opportunities<br />
for improving the health and well-being of the children served, and supporting<br />
permanency planning. In the program children are served in the least restrictive,<br />
most-like setting possible, involving those in the caregiving network - foster family,<br />
birth family, and adoptive family members.<br />
The WSP will provide a variety of support services to children and their family<br />
including counseling, intensive in-home supports, planned or crisis respite (for<br />
developmentally disabled children), crisis avoidance and management, vocational<br />
training and employment placement for youth, skill building, community<br />
advocacy, day habilitation and immediate crisis response.<br />
The WSP will attend meeting to discuss the creation of an Individual Health<br />
Plan(IHP) for each participant. The WSP will document and report progress on<br />
goals and work with the Health Care Integrator (HCI) to routinely update the IHP.<br />
RNs, Masters, Bachelors are encouraged to apply. Bilinguals preferred. Part-<br />
Time flexible hours, Field work in all NYC boroughs.<br />
Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE)<br />
Please email resumes to ilora@cgshb.org,<br />
fax to 212-421-1709 or mail to I. Lora,<br />
Catholic Guardian Society and Home Bureau,<br />
1011 First Avenue, 10th floor <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>, NY 10022<br />
Good Shepherd Services<br />
A leader in NYC youth and family services is looking<br />
for professionals for the following positions located in<br />
Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx:<br />
* SOCIAL WORKER<br />
* CASE WORKER<br />
* PROGRAM DIRECTOR<br />
* SOCIAL WORK<br />
SUPERVISOR<br />
* YOUTH DEVELOPMENT<br />
COUNSELORS<br />
In addition to competitive pay and benefits,<br />
GSS offers a highly collaborative environment<br />
and excellent training.<br />
For a complete list of jobs<br />
and full descriptions, visit<br />
our website:<br />
www.goodshepherds.org<br />
EOE<br />
Let AABR Shine a Light<br />
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AABR is a highly respected non<br />
profit organization dedicated to<br />
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Managers, Assistant Residential<br />
Managers and Direct Care Counselors<br />
in Queens and Bronx.<br />
Email:<br />
humanresources@aabr.org<br />
Fax: (718) 321-8774<br />
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