Founded in 1985, Independent Living Association, Inc. (ILA) provides residential services — private home shares — for adults who are developmentally and intellectually challenged or disabled. ILA's homes can be found all over the five boroughs of New York City.
ILA is a non-profit organization and is supported by the New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. ILA's mission is to provide quality care for individuals in the safest environment possible and to help them achieve the highest level of community living.
Elmy's Special Services (ESS) is a non-profit organization serving children and adults with mental and physical disabilities throughout New York City. ESS identifies community living opportunties and public-policy advocates to protect the rights and needs of the disabled.
Founded in 1989, The Rose F. Kennedy Family Center is a four-storey brownstone that provides transitional housing and daycare services for pregnant women and women with young children who are homeless. The center is a part of Brooklyn Child and Family Services and funded by the Department of Health & Human Services Administration for Children and Families.
Each floor of the building accommodates four young women and their children with one room, including a kitchen and living room that they share. Although meager, the quarters have a lived-in, sunny feel, while children's toys are stacked away neatly in each corner. And despite its total 14 residents under one roof, the building is quiet and clean.
The daycare on the first floor is a part of the Early Head Start Program that serves up to 21 children-- a mix between shelter residents and children from the community.
Good Shepherd Services is a non-profit community center located on Fourth Ave. and Ninth St. It provides services that aim to prevent child abuse, including family and individual counseling. The center also houses the Barbara Blum Residence, a non-secure detention center for boys.
The Salvation Army was founded in 1865 by William Booth, an evangelical minister who spread the idea of a fixed, single and traditional standing church as the only means for true worship. Booth formed an organization -- or army -- of evangelists. Today The Salvation Army is known most as a donation center for the elderly, sick and poor.
This center does not accept donations; instead, it is a parish and a house of worship. It houses a day care center and after school program in its quarters facing Kosciusko Street, and it runs a food pantry Monday through Friday from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
The Fifth Avenue Committee is a community organization that aims to help residents in the community obtain affordable housing and other services. The committee has developed more than 600 units of affordable housing since it was founded in 1970. The main office is located at 621 Degraw Street in Park Slope.
Black Veterans for Social Justice is a nonprofit organization serving African-American veterans and their families, providing housing, employment support, physical and mental healthcare, counseling and education. By taking a holistic approach to each client, the BVSJ helps veterans and their families readjust to civilian life and be happy, healthy and productive. The BVSJ also lobbies federal, state and city agencies to address the needs of veterans.
This is the main office of the BVSJ; an ancillary office is located on Quincy Street.