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University Settlement’s early childhood mental health program receives $650,000 grant
The grant is the largest single-year gift in the organization’s history
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Ask the Experts: Will Eric Adams’ mandate to involuntarily hospitalize mentally ill persons work?
Mental health professionals offered mixed reviews on the mandate which already has caused a backlash with advocates for persons suffering from mental illness.
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Opinion: New York’s corporal punishment ban is crucial to kids’ mental health
As pandemic-related disruptive behaviors continue in schools, mental health supports are the answer.
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Opinion: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: What do nonprofit leaders really think?
Eight current and former nonprofit executives weigh in on DEI effectiveness.
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JCC of Mid-Westchester gets a new chief executive officer
Elise Dowell comes with two decades of communications and operations experience.
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New York City’s first safe injection sites avert 633 drug overdoses on anniversary
OnPoint NYC’s two overdose prevention centers have served more than 2,100 people in their first year.
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NYC lagging on vendor payments during critical time, housing service providers say
Providers claim that a cumbersome city-mandated rebid process is forcing them to draw from their own funds for things like food, medical and security services and holding them back from expanding to help address the city’s migrant shelter crisis.
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2022 NYN Media Tech Con explores innovation
Key issues discussed at the event included nonprofits’ adoption of automated services, addressing technology resistance and data collection.
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Harlem Mothers and Fathers S.A.V.E grows its membership as deadly gun violence continues
The nonprofit has devoted its support and service to victims’ families.
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New York City agencies to involuntarily admit more severely mentally ill persons for evaluations
Mayor Eric Adams clarified Tuesday that people do not have to be a danger to themselves or others to receive help.
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Lucy Lang: A criminal justice reformer on her first year as state inspector general
The state IG wants the public to be more aware of the work her office is doing and she’s taking the steps to make it happen.
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How NYC’s Code Blue emergency notice aims to protect homeless people
When temperatures drop, the city tries to eliminate barriers to sheltering people – but advocates worry about police involvement.
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A “missed opportunity” in using data for New York City social services, report says
A new analysis by the Center for an Urban Future includes recommendations for how the city can leverage data to improve on social services delivery.
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Advocates and electeds rally for a women’s care and equity agenda
A rally was held outside New York City Hall to discuss the future under the state’s first woman governor
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Nonprofits tackle food insecurity as holidays approach
Organizations like HelpNYC and the Met Council are giving away turkeys, hot meals and more with Thanksgiving just days away.
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SCAN-Harbor event raises more than $1 million
The 2022 Fall Gala celebrated the organization’s youth and families under the theme, “Better Together.”
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Editor’s Note: Adult Survivors Act needs all the attention it can get
The law opens a one-year lookback window for survivors to come forward with legal claims against their alleged abusers.
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Immigrant households disproportionately rent-burdened: Report
Nearly 434,000 children in New York City were in households with at least one immigrant parent and experienced rent burden in 2021, according to the Citizens’ Committee for Children analysis.
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Hunter College receives historic $52 million donation
Billionaire Estée Lauder heir Leonard Lauder made the gift to the school, the most ever given to a CUNY institution, for a new nurse practitioner program.
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