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Hosting a Holiday Party
We’ve been spreading holiday cheer! Our new Family Enrichment Center (FEC) hosted a holiday party for our foster care program, Family Support Services, St. Johns House 2, and community members of Morrisania, Crotona, East Tremont, and Belmont. There were gifts for all...
A Visit from the Grinch
Thankfully, The Grinch had a change of heart! He and his dog Max visited our Muhlenberg Residence’s annual holiday party, hobnobbing with program participants and LSSNY staff and giving out gifts. This year we gave out comforters to the participants. Meals were cooked...
A Christmas Story at Seneca House
Annette Van Ness Seneca House Volunteers Liz Curran, Teerrie Kennedy, Virginia Boscia, Michelle Napoli Seneca House Client Original volunteer Terrie Kennedy, Seneca House social worker, hospice nurse Gina B Christmas Gifts It all began with a grammar schoolteacher in...
The Keys to a New Lease on Life
This is not any set of keys and this is not any apartment. As of two weeks ago, this space belongs to Kim F., a woman who was previously homeless, then in a three-quarter house (“like a shelter but with a little more freedom” says Kim), and then at Lutheran...
The Perfect Pirouette
Steven Melendez, Artistic Director of New York Theatre Ballet, returned to the shelter where he lived as a youth and introduced children in the South Bronx to the world of ballet. He fainted on the spot. For real. His years at the shelter, Seneca House, had been...
“I’m the Social Worker of the Family”
Even though she is the youngest of four daughters, 13-year-old Bardha Fusha became the de-facto translator when her family emigrated from Albania to America. A teenaged Bardha, at her home in Fier, Albania, dances as her family learns that they’ve been granted the...
Bittersweet Graduation
https://youtu.be/t0_jLDpjd5Q These are our final graduating classes from The New LIFE School — a special education therapeutic day school that’s provided educational and vocational training to 175 students in grades 3-12. The celebrations were bittersweet as the...
“Sit Like Oprah! Sit Like Oprah!”
“The smart parents don’t take the kids out of my program to put them elsewhere in pre-K. When the kids leave me at age five, they are reading and writing and doing what they’re supposed to do at the kindergarten level. They are prepared and ready to learn.” So...
A Garden Grows in Brooklyn
At our Bergen Street Residence, we have installed our very first garden on our roof and in our backyard, thanks to a partnership with New York Restoration Project. Program participants can engage in holistic activities and receive the therapeutic benefits of our...