New York Chapter
Children General Welfare
Agenda for Children Tomorrow
c/o Administration for Children's Services
80 lafayette st.- Room 1425A
New York, NY 10013
Phone: (212) 266-3392
Fax: (212) 266-3227
Established to foster a collaborative partnership among government, non-profit organizations, and communities in the delivery of family and children's services: works to identify ways to overcome abministrative and regulatory obstacles to service coordination.
Association to Benefit Children
419 East 86th Street
New York, NY 10028
Phone: (212) 831-1322
Fax: (212) 426-9488
ABC provides an array of programs for homeless and poverty stricken children and their families, including: day care, family support, educational, therapeutic, crisis intervention, job training and employment for parents of homeless families.
Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Inc. of New York City
223 East 30th St.
New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212) 686-2042
Fax: (212) 779-1221
Devoted to assisting single parent children and their families: one-to-one matching of a caring adult volunteer to a youngster; provides mentoring training.
Catholic Big Brothers, Inc.
45 East 20th St.
New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212) 477-2250
Fax: (212) 477-2739
Matches boys and girls aged 7-17 with Big Brothers, Big Sisters and teen mentors in one-to-one and group matches.
Children's Aid Society
105 East 22nd St.
New York, NY 10010
Phone: (212) 949-4800
Fax: (212) 529-6762
Provides at-risk children and their families with a network of services including: neighborhood centers, school camps, mental and dental services, foster care, education and recruation.
Children's Defense Fund- New York
200 Church St.- 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10013
Phone: (212) 233-4000
Fax: (212) 233-4073
Through education, advocacy, and specific projects, works to protect New York's children and to ensure that we " Leave No Child Behind."
Citizens' Committee for Children of New York, Inc.
105 E. 22nd St.
New York, NY 10010
Phone: (212) 673-1800
Fax: (212) 979-5063
Advocacy organization working to improve the lives choldren in New York City: works to shape and ifluence policy by monitoring budgets, legislation, regulations. Programs and policies.
Coalition for Asian-American Children and Families
1 West 34th St.-Suite 1202
New York, NY 10001
Phone: (212) 239-4631
Fax: (212) 868-1373
Dedicated to improving the quality of life for the New York City Asian-American community:serves as a resource for service-providers through advocacy, educational , coalition building, and information dissemination; facilitates access to health and human services.
Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, Inc.
140 W. 22nd St- Suite 301
New York, NY 10011
Phone: (212) 206-1090
Fax: (212) 206-8093
Advocates on behalf of Latino children an dtheir families through a wide range of services including: community education; training and advocacy efforts addressing the issues of domestic violence; youth empowerment, reproductive rights, maternal and child health, adoption, child day care placement.
Greenwich House
27 Barrow St.
New York, NY 10014
Phone: (212) 242-4140
Fax: (212) 366-4226
Multi-service agency serving abused children and adolscents, frail and impoverished elderly, alcohol and substance abusers, HIV-positive men and women.
Hale House
152 West 122nd St.
New York, NY 10014
Phone: (212) 663-0700
Fax: (212) 749-2888
Cares for abandoned babies born addicted to drugs, alcohol, tobacco and those infested with HIV: stresses holistic health, intensive emotinal nurturing, and special diets.
New York State Council on Children and Families
5 Empire State Plaza -Suite 2810
Albany, NY 12223-1553
Phone: (518) 473-3652
Fax: (518) 473-2570
State agency established to coordinate services for chil;dren and families, also facilitates special situations such as identifying services for multiply- disabled children, and finding transitional care for children "aging-out" of the children's service system
Office of Child Support Enforcement
Administration for Children Services
66 Leonard St.
New York, NY 10013
Phone: (212) 274-6923
Fax: (212) 274-6971
Works to ensure that legally responsible absent parents provide child supoort for their children, services include: location of absent parents, establishment of apternity and support payments, enforcement of court ordered support obligations.
Partnership With Children
60 lafayette St.- Level A
New York, NY 10013
Phone: (212) 285-1661
Fax: (212) 608-3083
Serves at-risk elemantary school children, provides: conflict resolution; small group and individual counseling; teacher and parent support. Works to create learning environments where children can succed through in-class emotional education.
Sheltering Arms Childrens Service
122 East 29th St.
New York, NY 10016
Phone: (212) 676-4242
Fax: (212) 779-4252
Provides comprehensive care to children through foster care, day care, adoption, medical services and pre-scholl programs.
Staten Island Children's Council, Inc.
420 Targee Street.
Staten Island, NY 10304
Phone: (718) 447-8521
Fax: (718) 273-0650
Concentrates on children and youth from poor families, services include: day care center, afterschool programs; adolescent AIDS/HIV Educational Project; substance abuse treatment; respite care; a program for the developmentally disabled.
Supportive Children's Advocacy Network
Administrative Office
207 E. 27th St.
New York, NY 10016
Phone: (212) 683-2522
Fax: (212) 683-2695
Family -focused prodram working to help parents keep their children at home:intergrates the contribution of social workers, youth workers, psychologist, volunteers.
