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Riverside Community Center, Manhattan Outreach Consortium
lead agency, provides services to 16,000 people annually
from Manhattan’s Upper West Side and Harlem
communities. Programs at 16 sites reach out to children
and youth, families, homeless people and older adults.
Goddard Riverside, a not-for-profit organization,
provides basic services such as meals, shelter and
education, and enriches community life with recreational,
cultural and arts activities. The agency manages 600
units of affordable housing, in addition to advocacy
and legal services. Website: www.goddard.org
Center for Urban Community Services, Manhattan Outreach
Consortium lead support agency, is the nation’s
largest provider of social services in supportive
housing, as well as a comprehensive human services
agency. The Center for Urban Community Services implements
new practices, actively shares knowledge and assists
in shaping local, state and national strategies so
that persons who are homeless, low-income, living
with mental illness or have other special needs can
live successfully in the community. Website: www.cucs.org.
Common Ground Community is a not-for-profit housing
and community development organization whose mission
is to solve homelessness through innovative solutions
that transform people, buildings and communities.
Common Ground moves homeless people from streets and
shelters into homes, and assists those most vulnerable
to homelessness to maintain their housing. Website:
www.commonground.org.
John Heuss House, an outreach social-service ministry
of Trinity Church, is a 24-hour drop-in center for
homeless, mentally ill and medically-frail single
adults. Heuss House encourages the homeless to re-enter
mainstream society by offering a variety of support
services. The goal is to help clients achieve and
maintain medical, psychiatric, financial and social
stability, while working toward a transitional or
permanent supportive housing placement. Web site:
www.trinitywallstreet.org/outreach/.
Lenox Hill Neighborhood House is the oldest and largest
social services and educational organization on the
Upper East Side. Operating out of multiple East Side
sites, Lenox Hill serves 20,000 people in need annually.
Constituents include older adults, homeless and formerly
homeless adults, children and families, recent immigrants
and disabled persons. The organization provides a
broad array of housing, health, mental health, social
and legal services to assist several thousand homeless
and formerly homeless New Yorkers every year. Web
site: www.lenoxhill.org.
The Bridge, Inc. is a community-based organization
serving New Yorkers in need through a multi-service,
multi-site and multi-borough agency. The Bridge serves
persons with mental illness, the homeless, people
with substance abuse problems and those with HIV/AIDS.
The agency assists clients through a comprehensive
array of mental health, housing and rehabilitation
services, to live productively and as independently
as possible in the community. Web site: www.thebridgeinc.org.
Urban Pathways is a not-for-profit, community-based
human services agency pioneering the use of basic
and therapeutic services to respond to the problems
of the homeless. The agency provides opportunities,
hope and dignity which empower clients to improve
the circumstances of their lives. By honoring the
individual’s right to achieve a place in society,
including a decent place to live, Urban Pathways provides
leadership in addressing the causes and developing
comprehensive solutions to the problems of homelessness.
Web site: www.urbanpathways.org.
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