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Highlights from our 2018 Annual Report

• Our Advocacy and Food Pantry program continued to feed approximately 2,100 individuals a month, and was recognized for their good work with the Founding Member Award at the Food Bank for NYC Conference on Hunger and Poverty.
• Our Preventive Services program—in contract with the NYC Administration for Children’s Services—served 265 children.
• The Sharing Place Thrift Store upgraded their processes, installing a new merchant credit card machine and register, made possible through donations.
• Nursing provided health and wellness-based workshops to over 120 families.
• During the summer academy, the K-3rd grade enrichment program, as a part of the Parenting and Child Development program, worked to incorporate a literacy and lyrics component to help promote early literacy skills through rhyming and music. The segment provided extra academic support for the younger grades and was so successful that it was added to the following program year.
• The Mental Health Services program supported 70 families in 2018, through individual and group programming.

Thank you for all of your help in making 2018 a success!

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Highlights from our 2017 Annual Report

Our Advocacy & Food Pantry program significantly expanded its ability to stabilize families by introducing electronic benefits enrollment, in collaboration with the Food Bank for NYC.

A 2017 report, released in collaboration with the New York Academy of Medicine, shared findings about our innovative Community Health Worker (CHW) Environmental Health program, which assists low-income families in addressing conditions that exacerbate asthma.

Rich data from our Nursing program was presented at the 2017 New York State Pediatric Advocacy Coalition annual conference.

Our Preventive Services—a program in contract with the NYC Administration for Children’s Services—ranked #2 in excellence among similar agencies citywide.

The summer cohort of our youth program—part of the Parenting and Child Development program—received increased academic support, with 93% of children gaining at least one reading level.

Mental health services complimented the work of all LSA programs with greater depth and reach in 2017, thanks to a grant from the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Improving Health Equity and Maternal Infant Health Outcomes (MIH) project.

In 2017, the Sharing Place helped distribute hundreds of coats and winter accessories to families in need, including those newly arrived from Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria.

AND.. We ended fiscal year 2017 with a surplus! This earned us a 4-star rating with the nonprofit watchdog group, Charity Navigator

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