Take a look at how students in our programs marked MLK Day 2023.
COMPASS at PS 273:
MLK Day 2023 Photo Album
Our Community
Photo of the Month: Lunar New Year!
Meet Tahmid and M.D., students at P.S. 182 in Jamaica, Queens, and their parents Mohiuddin and Humaiara.
In honor of Lunar New Year, they, along with 60 members of the P.S. 182 community, attended The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Lunar New Year Festival. Together, students and their families celebrated the Year of the Rabbit with performances, interactive activities, and artist-led workshops for all ages.
P.S. 182 is what is known as a Community School. Continue reading
December Photo of the Month: Holiday Toy Drive!
When we said that donating to our holiday toy drive would spread joy and smiles, we meant it! Continue reading
Daniela’s Story
Listen to the audio of the Q&A between Daniela and her therapist, Sarah Rashid, LMSW
Daniela is an 11th-grade student who goes to therapy at a Child Center wellness center in her school during lunchtime.
As a young child, Daniela experienced severe trauma. Returning to in-person school after remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic was a struggle because her extreme anxiety and ongoing hypervigilance—due to PTSD—prevented her from focusing in class. Thankfully, since mental health education for the entire school community—including teachers—is a core part of The Child Center’s school-based mental health work, one of Daniela’s teachers noticed she seemed overwhelmed and brought Daniela to our on-site wellness center.
Please tap on the photo above to hear Daniela speak in her own words about her experience in therapy at her school’s wellness center.
Join #Changemaker Desiree Jackson
Champions on the ground for asylum-seeking families in Brooklyn
Desiree (far left) and her team serving the community at P.S. 156 Waverly School of the Arts
When you give a gift of support to The Child Center of NY, you are supporting changemakers like Desiree at P.S. 156 Waverly in Brownsville, Brooklyn, who is hard at work meeting the needs of an influx of children from asylum-seeking families. Continue reading
November Photo of the Month: Cash+Community Works
Meet the Empresarias Soñadoras, also known as the Corona A cohort of The Child Center of NY’s groundbreaking Cash+Community Works initiative.
Meaning “dreaming entrepreneurs,” the name Empresarias Soñadoras embodies the spirit of Cash+Community Works, a movement grounded in the concept of peer-driven change and defined by direct investment in under-resourced families, trusting them with power, and connecting them with peers in an effort to uplift whole communities. Continue reading
Photo of the Month: Head Start Awareness Month
October is Head Start Awareness Month, a special time to highlight the crucial role of Head Start and Early Head Start in supporting the cognitive, social, and emotional development of young children, ages 0-5, from low-income families.
Pictured here is 3-year-old Omar, who attends our Escalera Head Start program, and his mom, Evelys, during the first of many of the program’s family events. Continue reading
Suicide Prevention Awareness Month
Clients at The Child Center Residential Treatment Facility, one of many Child Center programs that serve adolescents with mental health needs
The changing face of challenge in American adolescence—and how to meet it
By Jennifer Blitzer, LCSW-R
Program Director, Woodside Youth Intensive Outpatient Program
American adolescence is changing. Three decades ago, the biggest public health threats to teenagers came from binge drinking, drunk driving, teenage pregnancy, and smoking. All have fallen sharply in the United States. In their place are soaring rates of mental illness. Continue reading
The Magic of JobNet
Members of the JobNet team, from left to right: Youth Advocate Jessica Rivera; GED Instructor Keianna Noble; Transitional Facilitator Samantha Gabriel; and Program Director Paulette Diggs-Beji
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