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...
by Jennifer Mirsky | Jul 5, 2023 | News & Announcements, Stories
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...
by Jennifer Mirsky | May 30, 2023 | News & Announcements, Stories
Pictured from L to R at the farm they owned in Olney, Maryland, 1943: Brothers Lloyd and Robert; father Harold; Dog Peggy; Ken; brother Bradley. Four of the five children returned here in 1983 to figure out a life-time care plan for their mother. Ken Sherman,...
by Jennifer Mirsky | May 25, 2023 | News & Announcements, Stories
“Many of our immigrants come to us with just the clothes on their backs,” says Fortitude House Program Director Bardha Fusha, MSW. “We have seen a lot of them go through detention centers, where they are stripped of any belongings that they may have. We...
by Jennifer Mirsky | May 19, 2023 | News & Announcements, Stories
Mother’s Day can be a disheartening time for teen mothers who are more often criticized than praised. This year, we held an extraordinary holiday celebration at LSSNY’s “Our Sister’s Place,” a prenatal and parenting residential program for teenage mothers who...
by Jennifer Mirsky | May 2, 2023 | News & Announcements, Stories
Severe health outbreaks in New York City. A home for children that was tragically destroyed by fire. A serious fire at agency headquarters on Park Place in Manhattan, followed two years later by shuttered offices in the wake of September 11th. The care of orphaned and...
