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In “This Manhattan Park Was Once A Gem. Now It’s a ‘No Man’s Land,‘” the New York Times’ Winnie Hu reports on community efforts to revitalize Sara D. Roosevelt Park, interviewing our neighborhood advocates including our friend K Webster of the SDR Park Coalition and our CEO Melissa Aase: The loss of the [Sara D. […]
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Are you passionate about providing mental health support to your fellow New Yorkers? University Settlement’s Mental Health & Wellness teams are recruiting social workers for a range of positions of varying seniority. Opportunities exist for social workers interested in providing direct therapy in clinical, home, and community settlings, as well as for experienced social workers
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As we consider today’s egregious Supreme Court decision to overturn settled law protecting the right to privacy, and in particular the right to abortion, we believe we must state a simple fact: University Settlement believes that women and girls are human beings with human rights, including the right to bodily autonomy and integrity. Why would
If you’re passionate about the wellbeing of our city’s older adults and have a skill you’d like to share, then we have a place for you! Volunteer with Wellness Together at University Settlement At University Settlement, we partner with older adults in the Lower East Side and Chinatown to provide a compressive range of programming
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George Lam, Artist-in-Residence at The Performance Project, was featured on an NPR segment about his work on “Family Association” – a free app that use narrates the experiences of various Chinese Americans and sets their stories to music. “There are all these places in Chinatown that are both hidden and meaningful.” he explains. “I was thinking, if
Bryan Fotino, Case Manager for Project Home at University Settlement, presented testimony to the New York City Council Committee on Finance Download a copy of this testimony – Testimony of University Settlement Before the New York City Council – FY 2022 Executive Budget Hearing: Committee on Finance Council Member Justin Brannan, Chair May 25, 2022
University Settlement in partnership with BRIC is pleased to announce the third cycle of the Brooklyn-based Intergenerational Community Arts Council (ICAC), a multigenerational team of residents developing joyous, values-driven arts programming by, for, and with members of the Ingersoll, Whitman, Farragut and Atlantic Terminal NYCHA houses and surrounding Brooklyn neighborhoods. This cycle running from February
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The Creative Center at University Settlement has been approved for a $20,000 Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the Training Institute for Artists and Administrators in Arts-in-Healthcare and Creative Aging for 2022, the agency announced today. The Creative Center’s Training Institute, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary,
ROAR: Rejoice! Organize! Activate! Reclaim!, a festival hosted by University Settlement, will take place every weekend May – August 2022 on New York City’s Lower East Side and in Chinatown. This summer, ROAR will: Energize public spaces including Sara D. Roosevelt (SDR) Park Celebrate the people and cultures of Chinatown and the LES
ROAR: Rejoice! Organize! Activate! Reclaim!, a festival hosted by University Settlement, will take place every weekend May – August 2022 on New York City’s Lower East Side and in Chinatown. University Settlement and its partners invite interested media to attend a press conference kicking off the initiative, taking place on May 2, 2022 at 10