Community Pride
Community Pride organizes tenant and block associations, helping many hundreds of tenants convert their city-owned buildings into tenant-owned co-ops.
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Single Stop
Harlem Children Zone’s Single Stop program was initiated as a tool to reduce poverty within the zone’s 100 blocks. Each week at various sites, Single Stop provides clients with access to a broad assortment of useful services. Free of charge, workers offer advice about securing public benefits, access to legal guidance, financial advice, debt relief counseling and domestic crisis resolution. All of the guidance is provided through confidential, one-on-one sessions.The HCZ Asthma Initiative
The HCZ Asthma Initiative works closely with asthmatic children and their families so they can learn to manage the disease and lessen its effects.Read moreThe Obesity Initiative
The Obesity Initiative is a multi-pronged program to help children and their families reverse the alarming trend toward obesity in the community and its health effects.HCZ Foster Care Prevention:
THE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
The Family Development Program serves 120 families and specializes in access to mental-health professionals who collaborate with caseworkers to support therapeuticinterventions.
THE FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER
The Family Support Center serves 90 families, and specializes in providing crisis intervention services, referrals, advocacy, groups on parenting, and anger management.THE MIDTOWN FAMILY PLACE
The Midtown Family Place has 45 families and is based in Hell’s Kitchen. It provides counseling, referrals and advocacy, as well as an after-school and summer program for children 5-12, a literacy program and a food pantry.PROJECT CLASS
Project CLASS (Clean Living and Staying Sober) serves as many as 50 families. It specializes in providing referrals to drug-and-alcohol abuse programs, as well as creating, implementing and monitoring drug- treatment service plans.It recently added the Babies Initiative, which is offered to 20 families with children ages five and under who are at immediate risk of being put in foster care. This intensive program works to get family members whatever services they need in order to stabilize.TRUANCY PREVENTION
Truancy Prevention has 90 families with at-risk children, and conducts groups ondomestic violence, on parenting called the Parenting Journey, as well as one for teenagers.
