by Kim Polson | Nov 4, 2020 | News & Announcements, Uncategorized
Since the start of the election season, our Supervisor of Social Services, Cait Graham, led the charge in encouraging our residents to have their voices heard by voting. She trained our case managers and placed signs with information about how and where to vote and...
by Kim Polson | Oct 29, 2020 | News & Announcements
“I would never want to be them,” said Thomas Dewar, LSSNY’s Executive Director of Information Technology, when he witnessed the massive disruption at other organizations during 9/11. Employees couldn’t access their workplaces, servers, or locally stored files for...
by Kim Polson | Oct 20, 2020 | News & Announcements, Uncategorized
“It’s been the tipping point for the nation but for me it’s long overdue.” — Marie Louis, MSW, Clinical Supervisor, The New LIFE School On Memorial Day, May 25, the name George Floyd became etched into the minds of the American psyche when he died beneath the knee of...
by Kim Polson | Aug 6, 2020 | News & Announcements
“I have always loved helping others in any way that I can,” says Hylkije Halili, Program Coordinator for LSSNY’s New LIFE Center of Long Island. Since volunteering with our refugee program in 1999, she has worked with both our foster care and hunger...
by Kim Polson | Aug 6, 2020 | News & Announcements, Uncategorized
We are so proud of our Early LIFE families for engaging in distance learning during the pandemic! We bought and sent school supplies to every family in the program. From tablets provided by the NYC Department of Education to blackboards and virtual graduations, we...
by Kim Polson | Jul 3, 2020 | News & Announcements
Snip, snip, snip goes the scissor…buzz, buzz, buzz goes the buzzer… Typically, these are the sounds of our barbering program at The New LIFE School in the Bronx, a therapeutic school which serves special needs students age 8-21 (grades 3-12). These days, due to COVID,...
