by Jennifer Mirsky | Dec 21, 2023 | News & Announcements, Stories
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...
by Jennifer Mirsky | Oct 24, 2023 | News & Announcements, Stories
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...
by Jennifer Mirsky | Sep 23, 2023 | News & Announcements, Stories
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...
by Jennifer Mirsky | Sep 13, 2023 | News & Announcements, Stories, Uncategorized
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...
by Jennifer Mirsky | Sep 7, 2023 | News & Announcements, Stories, The New LIFE School
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 school will officially close its...
by Jennifer Mirsky | Aug 29, 2023 | News & Announcements, Stories
“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...
