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by Fred Scaglione
According to the Big Bang Theory of Government, New York
State’s Budget was scheduled to explode on April 1st with the start
of a new 2010-2011 Fiscal Year. Like an out-of-control tour bus
packed with screaming teachers, taxpayers, legislators and Medicaid
recipients, New York’s $137 billion annual budget was hurtling
towards an open and unbridgeable $9 billion hole in the highway.
By the time you read this, April 1st will have come and
gone. And, it seems unlikely that the budget time bomb will have
actually gone off – at least yet. As we went to press, the chances
of any budget agreement by the Governor, Senate and Assembly
still seemed remote. Most observers were confident that
New York State would once again manage to turn back the
clock on its fiscal obligations. That clock, however, was
still ticking.
When the ticking stops, it could signal very, very
bad things for many nonprofit human service providers
and the people they serve. Since our first look in
February (“Death by a Thousand Cuts”), the Governor’s
Executive Budget proposal – which featured $4.5 billion
in spending cuts -- has grown only more frightening.
In part, this is because providers, advocates and local
government officials have recognized the actual impact of
many previously less-than-obvious budget cuts. Several of
these are particularly devastating for New York City, including:
• A $65 million cut to state support for the City’s adult
homeless shelters;
• A $25 million reallocation of Title XX funds that could
close as many as 100 senior centers;
• A $50 million reduction in available child care funding;
and,
• The complete elimination of New York City’s $328 million
in State revenue sharing as part of a $1.3 billion total reduction
in State aid, which Mayor Bloomberg has indicated will
trigger an extensive series of “contingency budget” service
cuts.
“Everywhere you look there are holes,” says Susan Stamler, Director
of Policy and Advocacy at United Neighborhood Houses.
At the same time, the big budget gap has appeared to grow
even deeper over the past two months, due to the apparent evaporation
of several key funding sources on which the Governor’s plan
rests. These included the “soda tax”, which accounted for $465
million in revenues for FY2010-2011 and an ongoing $1 billion
annually thereafter, a $1 per pack cigarette tax ($210 million),
fees associated with the sale of wine
in grocery stores ($253 million) and a
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Reality Check: Show Us the Revenue
Faced with a $9-10 billion budget gap, it is time for New York State to
get real about raising additional revenues. While it seems clear that there
will have to be cuts to state spending, it is ludicrous for the legislature to think
they can balance the budget using only one side of the income statement.
Governor Paterson deserves credit for his proposal to create a “soda
tax” that would raise $1 billion annually going forward while also offering significant
public health benefits. The same goes for increased cigarette taxes.
The Senate’s rejection of these revenues while simultaneously
restoring critical budget cuts seems less than helpful.
As the final section of our cover article “Budget Bombshell” outlines,
there are additional tax and revenue proposals which should be explored.
Fiscal Policy Institute’s suggested temporary 1% personal income tax
surcharge on households earning over $1 million makes sense. So does its
“Wall Street Helps Main Street” package of proposals which would seek
additional revenues at a time when Security Industry Association member
firms are making record profits.
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OMIG “Extortion” is Subject
of Senate Hearing
“Extortion” is how NYS Senator Craig
Johnson (D-Nassau) described the audit and
collection practices of the Office of the Medicaid
Inspector General (OMIG) in response
to horror stories from healthcare providers.
The comments came at a March 17th hearing
by the Senate’s Committee on Investigations
and Government Operations, which
Johnson chairs.
During the course of the day-long hearing,
the Committee heard from John J. Foley,
Deputy Medicaid Inspector General for
Audit, who faced tough questions regarding
various aspects of the OMIG’s operations,
including its aggressive audit protocols, burdensome
demands for documentation, the
attitudes and qualifications of its staff, and
its approach to collecting audit recoupments,
which Johnson described as “shaking everybody
down.”
Foley was followed by two healthcare
provider executives who described their own
experiences in dealing with OMIG auditors.
John Haley described how New York Diagnostic
Center, Inc. had been forced to close
after OMIG sought recoupment of more than
$3 million in payments for same day clinic
visits which allegedly should have been provided
by an inpatient rehabilitation service,
despite what Haley described as prior written
approval for the program of services from the
Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse
Treatment Services (OASAS). Haley indicated
that the final decision to close came as
OMIG moved to “100% withhold” of current
Medicaid payments as NYDC continued to
fight the audit finding.
Bruce Peckman, Chief Operating Officer
of Highfield Gardens Care Center of Great
Neck, related three separate audit experiences
with OMIG. One involved a base year rate
NYCON Extends Deadline
for SCF Grant Applications
The New York Council of Nonprofits,
Inc. (NYCON) is extending the application
deadline for its Strengthening Communities
Fund (SCF) grants to April 14th.
NYCON has received a nationally
competitive $1,000,000, two-year SCF
stimulus grant and will award $600,000
of the grant to community and faith-based
nonprofits serving low-income individuals
in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx who
are providing services that are vital to the
economic recovery efforts.
The SCF Program is comprised of two
components. NYCON will provide access to
and scholarships for free training, access to
an online learning community, and consulting
support to 80 community and faith-based
organizations. NYCON is collaborating with
three Nonprofit Training Partners including
the Women’s Center for Education and Career
Advancement, the Support Center for
Nonprofit Management and the Nonprofit
Coordinating Committee of New York. The
SCF program will offer an extraordinarily
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audit going all the way back
to 1990 when the facility was
under prior ownership which
would have ultimately translated
into a recoupment claim
of more than $30 million. According
to Peckman, the facility
was ultimately forced to settle
for $853,000, despite strongly
disagreeing with the finding,
after the OMIG had already
withheld $800,000 in current
Medicaid payments and the
threat of significantly higher
recoupment had negatively impacted
the agency’s ability to
obtain credit. Peckman went
on to describe two other subsequent
interactions in which
OMIG staff cited documentation
requirements not included
in regulation and used the threat
of lengthy and expensive legal
action as a reason to settle an
audit claim.
“Providers are living in fear today,” said
Johnson, who noted that many other providers
had been reluctant to testify publicly about
their experiences with OMIG. He cited the
experience of Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric
Center, which had won a decision overturning
the OMIG’s audit finding after appealing
to an Administrative Law Judge. Soon
after, said Johnson, the agency had received
a new audit notification letter. And, on February
17th, only two days after Johnson had
questioned OMIG James Sheehan publicly as
to why MJGC had not been repaid the monies
withheld by OMIG, the agency reportedly
received another letter notifying them that
the audit parameters were being expanded.
comprehensive range of free training opportunities
to meet the needs, interests, and
goals of eligible secular and faith-based organizations
who participate in this program.
Under the second component, these
80 program participants will be able to
compete to receive a grant ranging from
$10,000 to $25,000 and receive 50 hours
of free technical assistance. Both the funding
awards and technical assistance are designed
to build organizational capacity. Approximately
30 community and faith-based
organizations will be awarded financial and
technical assistance and these organizations
will be known as “Project Partners.”
Applications will be accepted during
two competitive funding rounds that will
take place in the Spring and Fall of 2010.
The Spring 2010 SCF applications are due
April 14, 2010. Questions about the SCF
program and application should be director
to Program Manager, Jennifer Lockwood
at 1-800-515-5012 ext. 152 or jlockwood@
nycon.org.
More OMIG! Senate Republicans Urge
Higher Medicaid Fraud Recovery Targets
The New York State Senate Republican Task Force on Medicaid Fraud conducted
a public forum in Albany last month to urge stronger efforts to combat waste and abuse
in the program. The Task Force is calling for even higher targets for Medicaid fraud and
abuse recoveries by the Office of the Medicaid Inspector General (OMIG).
In February, Governor Paterson’s Executive Budget proposed to increase the OMIG’s
recovery target for FY2010-2011 by $300 million to $1.2 billion in State funds – an estimated
$3.0 to $4.5 billion in all-funds recoveries. The Republican Task Force believes
that the target should be even higher and has called for another $300 million increase
– translating into an all-funds recoupment target of between $3.6 to $5.4 billion.
“There is no excuse for tolerating any fraud in a program that is the fastest-growing
and largest single component of state and county budgets,” said Senate Republican
Leader Dean Skelos.
“Medicaid costs New York State taxpayers a billion dollars per week,” said Senator
Kemp Hannon who chairs the Task Force. “This means it is costing taxpayers over fiftytwo
billion dollars per year.”
The Task Force estimated that as much as $5 billion of the State’s total $52.5 billion
in Medicaid expenditures could be “fraud in the system”. Critics of the system frequently
cite traditional – if questionable -- estimates that fraud accounts for 10% of all healthcare
expenditures (See: “OMIG and the Urban Legend of 10% Medicaid Fraud”, NYNP March
2010.)
“This looks like a clear example of retaliation
and retribution,” said Johnson.
Foley indicated that there were several
reasons why, under OMIG’s process for selecting
audit candidates, Metropolitan Jewish
might have been selected for audits of
additional Medicaid services. He stressed
that any provider with concerns over the behavior
of OMIG auditors should contact him
directly.

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NEWS
Advocates Express Concern over Westchester Cuts
Westchester providers and advocates
are concerned about how new County Executive
Rob Astorino’s first round of budget
cuts will play out – and what it may
portend for the next four years. As we
went to press, they were hoping to share
those concerns directly with Astorino at a
meeting scheduled for March 19th.
On March 9th, Astorino announced
$16 million of cuts to current year programs
as the first step towards closing
what is estimated to be a $166 million
annual deficit. Several aspects of the
planned cuts seem clear. Others, including
cuts to Community Optional Preventive
Services (COPS) and family shelter
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programs, had yet to be finalized.
“Thirty-seven percent of these reductions come
out of the Department of Social Services and most of
that is services for children,” says Cora Greenberg,
Executive Director of the Westchester Children’s Association.
“The County Executive has said that layoffs
are a last resort. We’d like to think that cutting
services for children should be the last resort.”
Of the $5.8 million in social service budget
cuts, the largest portion, $3.3 million, comes from
projected savings due to reductions in the County’s
foster care census and/or the placement of children
in less restrictive and therefore less expensive levels
of care.
“There is no reduction in services to kids in
care,” says DSS Commissioner Kevin Mahon. “This
is a good story, a great story. A year and a half ago
we started looking at our kids in care and how we
could provide better services locally so we could either
get them home faster or step them down faster.”
Greenberg appreciates the success of this effort
but differs as to what to do with the savings from
having fewer young people in care. “If you can save
$3.3 million in foster care, you should be plowing
that money back into services,” she says. “Where are
these kids going Just because they are leaving care
doesn’t mean they don’t need services to keep them
safe. We have to do better than that.”
The second major area of savings is in child care
subsidies where Astorino plans to reduce expenditures
by $1.5 million. The savings will come from
three areas – reducing a “scholarship” program that
provides subsidies to families with income exceeding
200 percent of the poverty level, increasing parent
co-pays for families with income between 100%
and 200% of poverty, and ending new admissions to
the Title XX child care program.
“This is a level of subsidy not available anyplace
else,” says County spokesperson Ned McCormack of
the “scholarship” program. “We are coming back to
the mandated targets.”
Mahon stated that the increase in parent copay
from 15% to 20% would have varying impact
on families depending on where they fell within the
100%-200% of poverty income bracket. He estimated
that the maximum increase for a family of three
would be $80 per month, bringing total monthly parent
fees to just under $300. “And, it is for families,”
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he emphasized. “If you have two or three children,
you only pay once.”
The County plans to get $750,000 in savings
through reduction in expenditures for family
shelters. “We don’t have that many people
in our shelters,” says Mahon. “We have a vacancy
factor that will allow us to reduce costs.” Mahon
indicated that the County would be meeting with
providers to go over its estimates of how reduced
occupancy can reduce contractual expenses.
Finally, the County is looking to its Community
Optional Preventive Services (COPS) programs
for an estimated $272,000 in County taxlevy
savings. “These are optional programs. By
definition, these programs serve low risk kids,”
says Mahon.
However, Mahon says that no final decision
have been made on how or where cuts to COPS
programs will be made, despite the fact that individual
programs received letters outlining their
budget reductions. “They went with a number and
they were supposed to react to the department,”
says Mahon. “We have a meeting next week to
talk about the impact. We are clearly not going
to put ourselves in a position where we bring kids
back into care. We just want to make sure we understand
totally what each one of these programs
does and the impact. We have time and we want
to do this right.”
Greenberg argues that cuts to COPS programs
are counterproductive on a number of
fronts. From a cost benefit standpoint, she stresses
that the County will be giving up far more
than it saves. Westchester pays only 35 cents on
the dollar for COPS programs. Consequently,
the $272,000 cut will cost the County twice that
amount in Federal and State aid.
And, she says, these services make sense programmatically.
“These are the programs that keep
kids safely at home. One program, for example,
keeps young children out of psychiatric hospitals.
If you don’t have alternatives to detention, PINS
diversions and these other things, you are going
to wind up with kids in jail or in much higherend
residential placement. That is what these programs
are preventing.”
Greenberg was be one of several advocates
and providers who were to meet with County Executive
Astorino to express these concerns at the
March 19th meeting.
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an order to shut down the Yonkers Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA). The
organization had given Peace Officer status to over
a dozen individuals, allowing them to carry guns
without providing any service to the community.
“The individuals behind the Yonkers SPCA
took advantage of a nationally renowned non-profit
to masquerade as a law enforcement entity with no
responsibilities or oversight,” said Attorney General
Cuomo. “Since this organization provides no service
to the community, we have shut it down.”
Yonkers SPCA, headquartered at 976 McLean
Avenue in Yonkers, was incorporated in 1912 but
has not conducted any legitimate programmatic
operations in decades, according to the AG. The
SPCA of Westchester had expanded its territory to
include Yonkers and has provided and continues to
provide prevention of cruelty to animal services to
the city. In 2007, despite the fact that the SPCA
of Westchester was handling animal cruelty cases
in Yonkers, Sean Collins, 43, of Millerton, resurrected
the long-dormant Yonkers SPCA and established
a new Board of Directors without the proper
authority. The newly reconstituted Yonkers SPCA
conducted no law enforcement activities.
Nevertheless, the organization conferred
peace officer status to at least 16 members over
the past three years, essentially allowing them to
carry guns while not doing any activities relating
to the prevention of cruelty to animals. By
comparison, the SPCA of Westchester conducts
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ACS Plans Contract Extensions as
Providers Await RFP Results
NYC’s Administration for Children’s
Services is moving to extend existing foster
care and preventive services contracts
as providers continue to await the results of
the child welfare Request for Proposals.
In E-mail correspondence to providers,
ACS Executive Deputy Commissioner
for Operations Belinda Conway stated that
Foster Boarding Home contracts will be extended
through September 30, 2010. Preventive
contracts will be extended based on
the transition plan for each program such
that the contracts will end between June 30
and November 30, 2010 with most contracts
ending September 30, 2010. “We expect to
extend all current residential care contracts
through March 31, 2011,” said Conway.
New contracts for family foster care and
preventive are now expected to begin on October
1, 2010 and all new contracts for residential
care will begin on January 1, 2011.
“There will be a three-month overlap
between current and new contracts for these
services,” said Conway.
ACS indicated that it will notify agencies
as soon as the new contract recommendations
are approved. “We hope to do so in
March or early April,” said Conway.
“Transition activity will include expansion
for some programs, reduction in slots
for others, as well as new program openings
and some program closures.”
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“True Colors” Construction Begins;
NYC’s First Permanent Housing for
LGBT Youth
West End Intergenerational Residence
HDFC, Inc. has closed financing and commenced
construction on True Colors Residence,
New York City’s first permanent
housing facility with support services for previously
homeless, 18-24 year old lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth.
True Colors was conceived by West End
Executive Director Colleen Jackson, and by
musical artist Cyndi Lauper and Ms. Lauper’s
manager, Lisa Barbaris. The project entails
the construction of a new, energy-efficient
multifamily building containing 30 studio
apartments, indoor and outdoor community
space for residents, and a computer room
and resource library. The building is named
in honor of Cyndi’s Lauper’s support for the
project and for West End, and references Lauper’s
hit song, “True Colors.”
True Colors is being financed by a variety
of sources, including a construction loan
and the purchase of low-income housing tax
credits by Citi; construction and permanent
lending provided by the New York City Department
of Housing Preservation and Development
(HPD) Supportive Housing Loan
Program; construction and permanent lending
from the Federal Home Loan Bank’s Afford-
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able Housing Program, through its member
M&T Bank; a grant from Manhattan Borough
President Scott Stringer; and a loan from the
New York State Energy Research and Development
Authority (NYSERDA). A portion
of the financing was made possible by the
Federal Tax Credit Assistance Program. The
low-income housing tax credit equity is being
syndicated by Richman Housing Resources
LLC, a member of The Richman Group of
Companies.
“This is a very exciting time for West
End,” said Colleen Jackson. “After what seems
like an eternity, we have finally broken ground
and are one step closer to our goal of turning
the concept of the True Colors Residence into
reality. We extend our sincerest gratitude to all
of our funders and collaborators and we send
special thanks to Manhattan Borough President
Scott Stringer for his invaluable support,
and to Cyndi Lauper and Lisa Barbaris whose
commitment to serving the needs of LGBT
youth led to the creation of this residence. ”
“Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender
youth living on the streets and in foster care
need our support more than ever,” said Cyndi
Lauper. “In New York City, the True Colors
Residence is going to play a big role in providing
these young people with the leg up and encouragement
they need. I am thrilled that construction
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or more in cuts they will have to do,” says
Allison Sesso, Deputy Executive Director
of the Human Services Council of New
York City.
“At the end of the day, there are going
to be very significant budget reductions,”
says Ronald Soloway, Managing Director
of Government and External Relations
for UJA-Federation of New York. “This is
not going to be like last year when money
was found to restore all the service cuts.
In fact, every day the legislature waits the
budget deficit gets larger. We are looking
now at $9-$10 billion.”
What would be the impact of the
Governor’s Budget as currently proposed
Here is a look at some of the larger cutbacks
most recently identified by providers
and advocates.
Cuts to Homeless Shelters
The budget proposes to effectively
end direct State funding for New York
City’s homeless shelters which serve approximately
7,500 single adults every
night. Traditionally, say advocates, the
State shared the cost of single adult homeless
shelters with the City – although it
had capped its share and is now paying
less than half. As outlined in the Executive
Budget, the State proposes that the
City enroll single adult shelter residents on
Public Assistance and take reimbursement
for shelter costs through the individual’s
PA shelter grant.
Advocates, providers and the City itself
view the plan as completely unworkable
and estimate that it would result in
a $65 million loss of funding. Only 24
percent of Department of Homeless Services
single adult shelter clients currently
qualify for public assistance. The rest,
they say, are hindered by mental or physical
health problems and life on the streets.
“People come in one night and are out the
rest; or they are in one month and out the
next,” says Shelly Nortz, Deputy Executive
Director for Policy with Coalition for
the Homeless.
“The Governor’s proposal for homeless
adult shelter funding is irresponsible
and puts the City in an untenable position
as we continue to provide shelter to our
most vulnerable New Yorkers, said NYC
DHS Commissioner Robert V. Hess. “The
state proposal is particularly damaging
and insensitive in this economic climate
where the cuts would have a severe impact
on our ability to deliver critical services to
those who need it most.”
“This is poorly thought out and
doesn’t make any sense,” says Christy
Parque, Executive Director of Homeless
Services United. “It creates an ironic
disincentive for shelter residents to work.
And, undocumented people, who account
for about 12% of the shelter population,
will not be eligible.”
The City anticipates the loss in state
funding would result in at least a 10%
across the board cut in funding for adult
shelters – a cut which will have an even
greater impact on services. “You can’t tell
your landlord you are only going to pay
90% of your rent or debt service,” says
Parque. “The only place you can take the
cut is in staffing or program services. We
are estimating we could lose 600 to 700
positions in the shelters.”
In addition to directly impacting shelter
operations, the cuts would eliminate
vital discretionary services such as street
outreach teams, Safe Havens and stabilization
beds. “We could see 1,000 more new
people on the street,” says Parque. “We
will lose the progress we have made in
reducing street homelessness prior to the
downturn.”
Ironically, the proposal comes just as
the City reports that there has already been
a setback in the effort to get homeless individuals
and families off the streets and into
shelter. This year’s annual Homeless Outreach
Population Estimate (HOPE) street
homeless survey found that 3,111 homeless
individuals were living on city streets
in January – up by 783 or 34% over the
number in 2009. “These are challenging
times that have had an impact on our street
homeless population,” said DHS Commissioner
Hess, who stressed that this year’s
number was still 29% below where it had
been in 2005.
“With record homelessness in New
York City, this is exactly the wrong time
for Governor Paterson to propose staggering
cuts to our shelter system,” said Mary
Brosnahan, Executive Director of Coalition
for the Homeless.
It is also worth noting that advocates
believe the state proposal could actually
increase total costs for both State and City
taxpayers, since far more single adults
pass through the shelter system each year
(23,000) than are housed on any given
night (7,500). “If, as DOB assumes, all
shelter occupants become public assistance
recipients, my calculation shows that
not only would the combined income loss
and added expenses cost New York City at
least $74 million, but the added welfare
costs would also wipe out the assumed
$36 million in state savings and actually
cost us a few million dollars,” said Shelly
Nortz in legislative budget testimony on
February 10th.
“Save Our Centers”
Another surprise hole in the State’s
budget is a seemingly arcane proposal to
redirect federal Title XX funds. In New
York City, the budget shift would cost the
Department for the Aging (DFTA) approximately
$25 million or roughly one-quarter
of its entire budget for senior centers.
The cut, if it is not reversed, is expected
to result in the closing of between 80 and
110 senior centers – and services for 5,500
seniors -- across the five boroughs.
Advocates, providers and elected officials
turned out at City Hall on March 9th
to protest the Governor’s budget proposal
with the launch of a “Save Our Centers”
campaign.
“These cuts would literally starve
thousands of poor seniors,” New York City
Council Aging Committee Chair Jessica
Lappin said. “In addition to providing hot
meals, these centers provide care, companionship,
and case management to some of
our neediest New Yorkers. Our state legislators
simply cannot approve this cut.”
“The City Council has a proven record
of success when it comes to defending our
city’s senior centers,” said Speaker Christine
C. Quinn. “Older New Yorkers depend
on senior centers as a lifeline, especially
during this recession. We’re urging everyone
to call their state legislators and the
Governor’s office to let them know these
cuts are unacceptable. We won’t allow Albany
to turn its back on our seniors.”
“The tsunami of city and state cuts
raining down on senior centers and other
services funded through the Department
for the Aging will close up to 110 senior
centers and cripple the funding of the
remaining senior centers,” said Bobbie
Sackman, Director of Public Policy for the
Council of Senior Centers and Services.
“UNH, along with our fellow advocates
and colleagues in government and
the provider community, is adamantly opposed
to the State’s proposal to redirect
$25 million in Title XX funds away from
New York City’s senior services,” said
Nancy Wackstein, Executive Director of
United Neighborhood Houses.
“If the Title XX funding for senior
centers is eliminated, then Selfhelp’s six
senior centers, which serve many thousands
of seniors in Queens, will face a
funding loss of $90,000 per center – further
compounding recent budget cuts,”
said Leo Aspen, Vice President, Senior
Communities, Selfhelp Community Services,
Inc.
“FPWA urges the Governor and New
York State Legislature to preserve the
flexibility of Title XX funding so that
needed resources can continue to flow to
neighborhood-based senior centers,” said
Kathy Fitzgibbons, Senior Policy Analyst
from the Federation of Protestant Welfare
Agencies (FPWA).
Child Care Shortfall
While not technically an Executive
Budget cut, advocates are concerned that
FY2010-2011 will see up to a $50 million
reduction in available funding for child
care services as the State’s runs out of rollover
monies which had previously helped
support current-year programming around
the state. “The impact in New York City
could be as high as $30 million,” says
Gregory Brender, Policy Analyst with
United Neighborhood Houses. “A loss that
large could only be implemented through
a significant reduction in capacity.”
It’s the State, Stupid!
In addition to these specific funding
reductions, New York City is also slated
to take a broader loss in revenue sharing
and education aid. “We all know that hard
budget choices are necessary – but so are
fair ones,” the Mayor told the legislature
during budget testimony in January. “I re-

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gret to say that this budget – which would
impose a total of $1.3 billion in cuts on New
York City and leave us with close to 19,000
fewer City employees to perform basic services
– utterly fails the test of fairness.”
For example, he pointed out that New York
City would see its Aid and Incentives for
Municipalities (AIM) funding cut entirely
while all other counties in the state would
only face reductions of up to 5%. The loss
on AIM alone comes to $328 million.
In response, the Mayor has developed
an entirely separate “contingency budget”
outlining extremely painful cuts to programs
and services which will be necessary
if the Governor’s budget is adopted as written.
What would the loss of this $1.3 billion
mean In addition to cutting 8,500
teachers, 3,150 cops, 1,050 fire fighters and
978 correction officers, there are likely to
be some significant cuts to human services.
A few examples of the Mayor’s proposals
include:
• A 30% reduction in ACS preventive
services capacity – 2,584 slots – for a
$9.2 million budget reduction;
• A 25% reduction in the number of day
care vouchers provided to low income
families for a $35.6 million savings;
• Elimination of funding for 500 soup
kitchens and food pantries for a $10.2
million cut;
• Closing of 15 senior centers for a $3.5
million cut;
• A 6% reduction in administrative rates
to foster boarding home agencies;
• A 14% reduction in City-Funded Beacons;
• Elimination of 3,000 OST slots.
TANF Funded Programs
Another major area of concern for
human service providers is the Executive
Budget’s wholesale cuts to programs which
had been funded using federal Temporary
Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
funds. These TANF-Surplus funds – savings
accrued by the state as Public Assistance
(PA) rolls declined following welfare
reform -- had been used over the past decade
to support a wide range of human service
programs. As part of the Governor’s
Executive Budget, a substantial portion of
these funds will be redirected back to support
increasing PA costs due to rising enrollments
and higher benefits.
As a result, approximately $132 million
in funding has been stripped away from
over 30 separate programs which provide job
training, youth services, alternatives to incarceration,
supportive housing, refugee resettlement,
home visiting, child care and more.
In most cases, the loss of TANF funding
was total. Therefore, programs which
had been fully-supported by these federal
funds are completely eliminated in the
Governor’s budget proposal. Among the
victims are the Summer Youth Employment
Program ($35 million), OCFS Preventive
Services ($18.8 million), Supportive Housing
for Families and Young Adults ($5 million),
and many more.
Those programs previously funded
through a combination of TANF and State
funds are typically losing all TANF funds
and 10% of State monies. The combined
impacts are devastating. Programs which
provide Alternatives to Incarceration/Alternatives
to Residential Placement for juveniles
lost $10.8 million in TANF funding,
close to 80% of their total funding. Advantage
Afterschool took a $11.4 million
TANF cut, bringing total proposed funding
down to $17.25 million -- 39% below its
current FY2010 budget and a full 43% below
its $30.5 million starting point at the
beginning of FY2010.
Tick, Tick, Tick
As we went to press, the State’s budget
negotiating machinery was beginning
to budge forward. As previously noted, the
Senate had passed a “one house” budget
resolution which restored substantial funding
to a range of programs and services,
including many TANF-funded programs,
monies for Title XX-funded senior centers,
homeless shelter funding, etc.
Providers and advocates took some encouragement
from the Senate action. “We
are grateful that the Senate recognized the importance
of these critical human service programs,”
said HSC’s Allison Sesso of HSC.
Unfortunately, this optimism was tempered
by the fact that the Senate resolution
simultaneously rejected more than $1 billion
in revenue actions already included in
the Governor’s Executive Budget proposal.
Based on a preliminary review, it appeared
that the Senate resolution would leave the
FY2010-2011 budget with a significant
deficit.
“The State Senate Democrats’ budget
resolution… fails to take common-sense
measures to generate revenue that could
offset a devastating school aid cut and prevent
8,500 teacher layoffs in New York
City,” said Mayor Bloomberg. “While the
resolution does include laudable restorations
to senior centers, homeless shelters
and indigent health care, all eyes will be
on the Senate, and the entire Legislature,
as we enter the home stretch in this crucial
process.”
Revenues Anyone
While prospects for the Governor’s
“Soda Tax” seemed increasingly doubtful,
a number of advocacy groups were urging
consideration of additional tax and revenue
proposals to offset the need for painful
cuts.
The Fiscal Policy Institute was pressing
for an enhancement to last year’s temporary
Personal Income Tax (PIT) rate increases
for high-income households. “It is
the most logical type of revenue increase
to do in bad times,” says Frank Mauro,
FPI’s Executive Director. “Last year, they
temporarily created two additional tax
brackets, one for individuals with income
of $200,000 or married couples with income
of $300,000 and another for singles
with income of $500,000. We are proposing
that for the remaining two years, they
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FPI is also suggesting a “Wall Street
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previous record of $20 billion in 2006. We
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Among the suggestions are:
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current year profits from taxation;
• An excess profits tax on a certain portion
of profits over a very high level;
• A tax on bonuses; and
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Mauro notes that the Governor of Colorado
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on the use of net operating loss carryforwards.
The Human Services Council is also
supporting a number of additional revenue
proposals totaling over $1.2 billion in annual
revenues. These include elimination
of the Empire Zone program ($600 million),
a Plastic Bag Tax ($340 million) and
reforming the Brownfield Clean-Up Program
($300 million).
Another approach to partially addressing
the State’s current deficit was suggested
by Lieutenant Governor Richard
Ravitch who proposed a temporary borrowing
program as a bridge to longer term
fiscal reform. Ravitch’s plan would allow
the State to borrow up to $2 billion per
year for the next three years as part of a
plan which would impose a variety of new
fiscal controls. These would include creation
of a five-member commission to review
the States financial plans, and authority
for the Governor to balance the budget
through across the board spending cuts in
the event of a deadlock with the legislature.
Ravitch’s proposal was promptly criticized
by the Governor and appears to have generated
little other support in Albany.
Three Men in a Room
Following the Senate’s resolution,
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was reportedly
in discussions in preparation for
passage of that body’s “one house” budget
resolution. Watching and waiting, advocates
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reach their full potential, strengthening
families, and assisting adults with disabilities
or other challenges to live successful
and independent lives.
Helping Children
BBCS’ services for low income, at-risk
children and their families begin with a variety
of early childhood programs for approximately
400 youngsters that include an
ACS-funded child care center, Head Start,
Early Head Start and a family-based child
care network.
“I think what makes our agency stand
out is our focus on a literacy rich curriculum,”
says Douglas C. Brooks, LCSW-R, Director
of Family and Children’s Services. “We utilize
the Creative Curriculum, which is a nationally
known, evidence-based curriculum
that can measure children’s development.
Our data shows conclusively that children
involved with our agency’s early childhood
programs are well prepared when they reach
kindergarten or first grade.”
Like many early childhood program providers,
BBCS is facing significant challenges
as a result of funding cuts by the New York
City Administration for Children’s Services.
Its Duffield Children’s Center, which serves
90 children under a contract with ACS, has
been targeted for closure – not due to any
concerns regarding quality or enrollment, but
because the City’s own direct lease with the
building landlord is viewed as too expensive.
Goodman sees the City’s plan to close
the center as extremely unfortunate, given
the facility’s convenient location for low income
parents working in downtown Brooklyn,
its solid enrollment and its high quality
design features. “Duffield is fully utilized at
this time,” he says. “The building is a beautiful
site that is perfect for the needs of a day
care center. You just walk in and you feel the
positive energy.”
Located near Flatbush Avenue and the
DeKalb Avenue subway station, Duffield offers
easy childcare access for parents. “Over
95 percent of our parents are either working
or in school,” says Brooks. “It is really helpful
for parents who need to drop off their
children on the way to work. They can leave
them with us as early as 7:30 and pick them
up as late as 7:00. There aren’t too many
other programs that can offer that.”
In addition to the ACS program, Duffield
also houses BBCS’ Head Start program
which accommodates a total of 47 children.
“We would have to relocate the Head Start
program,” says Brooks. “We don’t want
the City to turn down a half million dollars
in Federal funding.” Duffield also serves
40 school age children with funding from
vouchers or parent fees.
At the same time, BBCS is also looking
forward to exciting new program opportunities.
Within the next few months, it will be
opening a new Early Head Start program located
in a specially-designed child care facility
at 1825 Atlantic Avenue. The space was
created as part of an affordable housing project
by Dunn Development. “It is all state of
the art,” says Brooks. “We are definitely excited
and funders are really excited. Usually
when you apply for new programs you have
to scrounge around to find space.”
The Early Head Start program will serve
24 families with children aged zero to three
in center-based services and an additional
48 families at their homes. BBCS is looking
for additional programming to serve children
ages three, four and five. The facility
as a whole will have a capacity to serve 48
children.
In addition to its center-based programs,
BBCS operates a family-based child care network.
More than 40 independent providers
care for 200 children in their own homes, with
training, supervision and administrative support
from BBCS. This provides employment
for the providers as well as safe, high quality
daycare services for the working poor.
This range of early childhood programs
allows BBCS the flexibility to offer families
what they need and want, says Brooks: “If
they want their children placed in a smaller
setting, we have the family day care. If they
want a classroom-type setting, we have the
centers. But they are receiving the same quality
of service. We now have families that go
back with us for two or three generations.”
For older children, BBCS operates the
Gary Klinsky Children’s Centers which provide
after-school learning opportunities to
children from low-income families in some
of the City’s most challenged schools. “A lot
of afterschool programs are sports oriented.
This is an academic enrichment program,”
says Goodman. “From the testing we do,
there is a significant difference in achievement
between the kids in our programs and
those who do not attend.”
The programs operate every weekday
from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and serve 850
children from kindergarten through middle
school in East New York and Crown Heights.
The programs are made possible by the financial
support of Wall Street private equity
investment fund manager Steven Klinsky.
“He wanted to do something to honor his late
brother,” says Goodman. “He and his circle
of friends and associates, provide the lion’s
share of what it takes to run these programs.”
They also receive support through NYC Department
of Youth and Community Development’s
Out of School Time (OST) program.
Strengthening Families
BBCS operates one of the larger ACSfunded
child abuse and neglect prevention
programs in New York City, serving a total of
close to 400 at-risk families at any given point
in time. The goal is to help avoid foster care
placement and keep children safely at home
with their parents.
“Pulling kids out and placing them in
foster care is not what is best for children or
families,” explains Goodman.
Alan Goodman
BBCS operates one general preventive
program for 250 families that is based in the
agency’s Bedford Stuyvesant Family Center.
At the East New York Family Center, the
agency has both a 90-slot general preventive
program and an enhanced program for thirty
families with adolescents. These are both severely
under-served communities with a high
incidences of families at risk.
“We are the only program that only hires
MSW level workers,” says Brooks. “We use
the Structural Family Therapy approach developed
by Salvador Minuchin to address
problems in the functioning and patterns of
relationships within the family. In fact, his
son Dan is a consultant with us.”
“Many of these families do not understand
what parenting is,” says Goodman.
“They have never been parented themselves.
They may have been abused and neglected as
children and there may have been alcohol or
drug abuse in the family. We go in and build
on the family’s strengths and help to create a
safe and nurturing environment.”
“We meet with the families once a week,”
says Brooks. “We observe their interactions
and give them direction and feedback on how
the family can be strengthened.”
The approach is not without its challenges.
“We look at the family as a whole,”
says Brooks. “Yet, we are doing preventive
child welfare work. It is a question of how
you blend these two disciplines. Often they
are similar but sometimes they can be at odds
with one another.”
The strong clinical skills required for
family therapy services drive BBCS’ MSWonly
staffing model. “You can do the same
type of work with bachelor-level staff but you
may not get the same quality results,” says
Brooks, noting that family members often
come to the program severely damaged by
combinations of alcohol and substance abuse,
mental health challenges and a lifetime of
poverty.
The workload is intensive and stressful.
With caseloads of 12 to 14, and multiple children
in many cases, social workers can be doing
75 to 100 home and collateral visits per
month.
Nevertheless, BBCS’s program is overwhelmingly
successful – 97-98% – in assisting
families to avoid foster care placements
and remain safely intact.
Homemaking Services -- the second
programmatic instrument in BBCS’ family
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Adult Services
BCS offers a wide range of employment
programs for individuals with disabilities.
less clinical, but no less important. BBCS
Homemakers are in-house teachers and role
models for troubled parents whose children
are at risk of foster care placement.
Unlike home health aides who primarily
do hands-on work with the elderly,
homemakers work with the family as a
whole, explains Marilyn Millien-Harris,
Director of Homemaking for BBCS. “We
have to teach and train the parent on child
care, parenting and better home management
skills,” she says.
Parents in Homemaking cases may
have physical or mental health challenges,
making these cases infinitely more complex.
“Mostly it has to do with parenting
issues or a mother’s physical or mental inability
to keep a clean home,” says Millien-
Harris. “We’ve gone into homes with piles
of dirty dishes and laundry that hasn’t been
done for a month.”
Homemakers are also another line of defense
in terms of child safety. “They receive
training every year in terms of how to ensure
safety in the home,” says Millien-Harris.
“They are mandated reporters. If they see
anything that may signify neglect or abuse
they have a responsibility to report it.”
Homemakers typically work in the
home of fragile families for a minimum of
20 hours per week – and up to 24/7 in particularly
troubled cases. “We have two or
three cases where the parent has cognitive
delays and ACS doesn’t trust the mother’s
judgment,” says Millien-Harris.
All Homemaking cases are referred by
ACS, which lately has been cutting back.
BBCS currently has just over 100 homemakers
and serves an estimated 175 families
annually.
A year and one half ago, BBCS expanded
its work with troubled youth to include
a partnership with the NYC Department
of Education on the development of a
“Transfer School” for “over age and under
credited” students. DOE provides the education
and BBCS provides the counseling
and support services to help students deal
with the non-academic challenges which
hindered their prior educational progress.
“Our counselors help them deal with their
personal issues and make sure that family
dynamics do not interfere with their capacity
to learn,” says Goodman. “We will do
whatever it takes to help them succeed.
We’ll call them up in the morning and make
sure they are up and on their way to school.
We work with parents to get them involved
in a positive way.”
BBCS’ third and largest “bucket” of
services is targeted at fostering self sufficiency
for adults, many of whom live with
disabilities or other significant challenges.
“We serve people with psychiatric disabilities,
people with developmental disabilities
and others,” says Leslie Klein, Director of
Adult Rehabilitation Services.
In terms of services for those with
psychiatric disabilities, BBCS offers two
clubhouse programs, continuing day treatment,
supported employment, an adolescent
employment and education program, transitional
living and an enclaves in industry
program.
Klein is particularly excited about the
growing focus on rehabilitation and recovery.
“In the past, the focus was primarily on
reducing symptoms,” she explains. “These
days, the focus is on gaining or regaining
life roles, helping people to set and achieve
goals that are personally relevant to them.”
Goals include learning job skills, finding
employment and living independently.
BBCS’ two clubhouse programs – perhaps
the most recovery-focused of all programs
for individuals with mental illness
– have been repeatedly certified by the International
Center for Clubhouse Development
(ICCD). “These are wonderful programs,”
says Klein. “I am always amazed when I
see the changes and growth in clubhouse
members.”
Metro Club in downtown Brooklyn and
the East New York Clubhouse each have approximately
150 members who effectively
run the programming with BBCS’ support
and supervision. The next challenge will be
a transition to the Office of Mental Health’s
Personalized Recovery Oriented Services
(PROS) licensing model which opens the
door to much needed Medicaid funding, but
adds record keeping, documentation and
billing complications – as well as the danger
of a potential shift in culture associated with
a medical model program. “We are starting
with Metro Club,” says Klein. “We opted to
be in the first group in the hope that we will
learn to do the model well.”
BBCS is actively involved in cutting
edge research on the most effective ways to
deliver psychiatric rehabilitation services.
“We are just coming off a three-year project
with researchers from Dartmouth University
on the effectiveness of combining Cognitive
Remediation and Supported Employment,”
says Klein. Now the agency is beginning
a second three-year study which will look
at the impact of adding Illness Management
and Recovery as a third coordinated component
to this combination of treatments.
“They haven’t published the results of the
first study yet, but I think they saw a positive
correlation. With the third element, they are
hoping to do even better,” says Klein.
BBCS offers a broad range of similarly
targeted services for individuals with developmental
disabilities, including day habilitation,
pre-vocational training, a sheltered
workshop and supported employment. “We
have recreation, residential rehabilitation
and Medicaid service coordination,” says
Klein.
One exciting new initiative is a residential
program in which 12 consumers with
developmental disabilities, who had been
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chronically ‘under-housed’, each have their
own studio apartment in a large affordable
housing complex at 1825 Atlantic Avenue.
“We have an office with staff on the first floor
to provide support,” says Klein. “The consumers
take a lot of pride in their apartments.
They are learning how to cook and clean.
They socialize and mix with their neighbors.
It is a great model.”
BBCS’ employment-related services are
extensive and appropriate for individuals with
a wide range of disabilities – as well as those
who do not face these chronic challenges.
Pre-vocational support serves those who
cannot yet pursue vocational training or job
placement due to the degree of their mental
illness or mental retardation. These services
include Project Moving On, which offers daily
counseling, therapeutic activities and peer
support for people with severe mental illness.
Day Habilitation provides center-based services
as well as opportunities for volunteer
work with local community groups. Residential
Habilitation teaches independent living
skills to developmentally disabled adults living
with their families or in their own homes.
BBCS also operates a sheltered workshop
at which individuals with disabilities
provide a variety of packaging and assembly
services for local Brooklyn businesses. “We
package everything from special eye guards
for kids playing football to
spices for a local factory,”
says Goodman. “We have
even invested in a ‘clam
shell’ packaging machine
to package electronic
products.”
“We have very strong
relationships with local
employers,” says Deborah
Washington, Director
of Placement Services.
BBCS has developed a service
model in which teams
of consumers will work
on site with such business
partners as Berdiner Laboratories,
Brooklyn Union
Beer Distributors, Citi-
Storage and Tanner Nuts
and Bolts – but under the
supervision of a BBCS staff member.
In addition to its services for individuals
with disabilities, BBCS also operates its own
proprietary vocational school – the Brooklyn
Bureau Career Training Academy – which
provides training in retail skills, including
classroom work, a computer lab and on-site
experience working with Marshall’s department
store.
All together, BBCS provides pre-vocation
or employment related services to 2,308
individuals annually, including 596 who are
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early childhood programs.
placed in competitive or
supported employment.
New Directions
When Goodman
succeeded Donna Santarsiero,
who had led the
agency for 28 years, he
found an organization
with strong programs but
also significant financial
challenges in light of the
nation’s economic crisis
and cutbacks in government
funding. As a result,
Goodman and new
Board Chair Jerrold
Mulder, are strongly focused
on efforts both to
increase BBCS’ visibility
with potential donors, volunteers and other
supporters and to find new and more diverse
sources of revenue.
Once a month, Goodman now hosts a
“360 Event” at which interested members of
the community are invited to a one-hour session
which introduces BBCS and the work it
does throughout the borough. “We bring in
people from all over – business people, lawyers,
people from other nonprofits, City government,”
says Goodman. “They learn about
what we do, hear testimonials from staff and
clients, see video clips and tour two of our
programs.” These events are part of the “Benevon
Model” for fundraising designed to
help organizations build long-term, sustainable
revenues through strong relationships
with donors and other supporters. “Over the
last seven months, we have introduced over
100 non-board members to this organization.
All of them can be potential donors or advocates,
people who can help us open doors or
establish new relationships.”
Goodman is looking for new ways to
bring in revenues – revenues that are not subject
to arbitrary cutbacks and reductions in
government contracts. “We have assets,” he
explains. “We know how to do certain things
better than other organizations. We have to
capitalize on these strengths and find new
ways to market these services.”
The agency has received pro bono assistance
from Morgan Stanley in development
of a business plan for a new income generating
project. “They put a team of associates
together to help us put together a plan,” says
Goodman. “We have a number of ideas and
are looking to identify the one that requires
the least investment of start-up capital.” First
on the agenda is a plan to market family therapy
treatment services to non-governmental
consumers. “There is a dearth of services out
there,” says Goodman. “We have the expertise,
experience and the reputation for providing
this service.”
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CACF Re-Grants $280,000
in Compassion Capital Funds
The Coalition for Asian American
Children and Families (CACF)
provided grants totaling $280,000
to 18 organizations led by and
serving Asian Americans yesterday.
The grants were awarded
through CACF’s participation in the
U.S. Health and Human Services
Compassion Capital Fund Demonstration
Program designed to build
the capacity of community-based
organizations.
Through a competitive
process, 54 Asian led and serving
organizations applied for this
capacity building grant, and 18
received funding. The grantees
were:
• Adhikaar for Human Rights
and Social Justice
• APEX
• CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities
The Coalition for Asian American Children and Families regranted
$280,000 in federal Compassion Capital Funds to 18
local nonprofits.
• Center for the Integration and Advancement of New Americans
• DRUM-Desis Rising Up & Moving
• Family Health Project
• Filipino American Human Services, Inc.
• Homecrest Community Services, Inc.
• Indochina Sino-American Community Center
• Japanese American Social Services, Inc.
• Kalusugan Coalition, Inc.
• Korean American Family Service Center
• New York Taxi Worker Alliance
• South Asian Youth Action
• St. Rita’s Center for Immigrant/Refugee Services
• The Sikh Coalition
• Turning Point for Women and Families
• United Chinese Association of Brooklyn
Specifically, grant recipients will receive: 1) mini-grants in amounts ranging from $10,000-
$25,000, 2) capacity building trainings, and 3) individualized technical assistance to enhance their
knowledge of public policy and to advocate for Asian Pacific American children and families. This
project provides CACF with additional resources to strengthen the voice of advocates who can collectively
work towards improving policies, funding, and services for the diverse Asian Pacific American
community.
“We are excited that we are able support the capacity building of organizations to provide better
services to the Asian Pacific American community through this grant,” said Wayne Ho, Executive
Director of CACF.
“We are excited about this capacity building opportunity,” said Grace Yoon, Executive Director
of the Korean American Family Service Center. “Through CACF’s support and leadership, we
are able to strengthen our organization and programs and to be the best we can be for children and
families in need.”
Options for Living Gets $198K
for “Green” Housing Improvements
Options for Community Living, Inc. has received $198,000 to make “green” improvements to
its supported housing programs for adults with mental illness. The award is part of more than $250
million in funding for “energy and green retrofits” available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act of 2009 (ARRA).
The federal funding will support energy efficient improvements to five Suffolk County residences.
Improvements include new energy star appliances, hot water heaters, insulation, exterior doors,
weather stripping, new low-VOC carpeting, zero-VOC paint, central air conditioning, and roof top
solar modules.
As a participant in the Green Retrofit Program, Options will lower electric, heating fuel, and
water consumption. The agency is committed to practices and use of materials that are broadly
recognized as practical, feasible and less harmful to residents and the environment.
Options for Community Living, Inc. operates a community residence program for adults with
mental illness, a shelter program for homeless Suffolk County families, and a case management and
housing program for people living with HIV/ AIDS in both Nassau and Suffolk. ast year alone, Options
assisted over 1000 adults and children on Long Island. For more information, visit the Options
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EDUCATION
Got Issues Students in Milano’s Issues Lab Can Help!
Does your agency have some thorny
issue that needs a resolution Why not assign
a team of consultants to work on it for
a month!
Haven’t got a spare $50,000 in the budget
Not to worry! Just call Milano The New
School for Management and Urban Policy!
For more than 30 years, Milano’s Urban
Policy Analysis and Management program
has been assigning graduate students to work
with clients in government and the nonprofit
sector as part of a highly structured “Laboratory
in Issues Analysis”. In addition to being a
tremendous learning experience for students,
the Lab can serve as a valuable resource for
cash strapped nonprofits. During February
and March, a total of 16 organizations took
advantage of the opportunity during the first
round of this year’s Issues Lab projects.
Milano students brief NYC Councilmember Gale Brewer on their
research into tri-state food distribution.
“It was very helpful,” says Ben Esner,
Senior Vice President for Programs at the
Brooklyn Community Foundation (BCF).
BCF had engaged a team of students to
help determine how the foundation could
best assist various community groups interested
in starting up food co-ops.
“The students have done a terrific job,”
says Peter Kostmayer, CEO at Citizens
Committee for New York City (CCNYC).
“I frankly was bowled over by the research
and analysis they did.” CCNYC was looking
for ways that community organizations
could combat vehicular noise pollution.
“I always tell clients that we cannot
guarantee the project will be successful,”
says Andrew French, Director of the Issues
Analysis Lab. “But, I have never known a
client who didn’t find something that was
useful in the final report. Many go on to
use the recommendations in their policy
making or incorporate the research findings
in their own advocacy work.”
The Lab focuses on a single policy
question and is designed to introduce students
to qualitative and quantitative techniques
that can be applied to a broad range
of problems. Students are divided into
teams of five, given a mandate to analyze
a particular issue as identified by the client,
and a time frame of four to five weeks
within which they must complete their
analysis.
For BCF, the students researched the
history of successful food co-ops in New
York City and elsewhere, contacted groups
interested in starting up, and looked at examples
of co-ops that had failed. The team
conducted their own survey of the buying
habits of Brooklyn consumers and price
comparisons for various food outlets. “We
had about 100 respondents,” said Aryn
Bloodworth, a student on the BCF team.
“Our results showed us that there is a need
for fresh, affordable food in Brooklyn that
is not currently being met.”
Ultimately, they developed a model
outlining the various stages of development
for emerging co-ops, e.g., organizing, feasibility
research, incorporation, member recruitment,
finance, and the ultimate launch.
Then, they made recommendations on how
BCF could help groups
at each of the various
stages.
“They showed us
a clear process for getting
from ‘a’ to ‘b’,”
says Esner. “They
gave us a way to talk
to groups about where
they are on this road
map. What have they
done What do they
need to do They
showed that if groups
did certain things in
step one, their chances
in step two were that
much better in step
two, and so forth.”
Students in the
CCNYC team began by narrowing down
their issue. “We had to zero in on what a
group of private citizens, with no money
other than a grant from CCNYC, could do
to combat vehicular noise,” says Chandler
Griffin. The answer, at least in part, was to
band together with other groups concerned
about the same issue. “Ultimately we
wound up recommending a social network-
ing site as a way to reach as many people as
possible on the smallest budget.”
The team envisioned a site on which
concerned citizens could continually update
information on vehicular noise problems,
even posting pictures and videos. The students
identified IPhone applications that allow
users to record a noise, determine the
decibel level, take a photo and post it to the
net. “I might hear a motorcycle or a loud
truck every morning at 7:00 a.m.,” says
Griffin. “Through this site, I might learn
that someone else a few blocks away hears
the same thing at 6:50. Now we have an
idea of the route it is taking.”
In a high tech take-off on the traditional
“Neighborhood Watch”, the Milano team
dubbed their site “Neighborhood Listen”.
Both BCF and CCNYC plan to put the
students’ findings to good use. Peter Kostmayer
is hopeful that some of the students
may be able to stay with the project. “I
would like to see some of them sign up to
work with us and get credit,” he says. Esner
believes BCF will use the analysis as it
builds partnerships with the Brooklyn Food
Coalition and the Park Slope Food Co-op.
While the Milano students work on issues
at no cost, there are commitments that
client organizations must make. They have
to develop a written “mandate” outlining
their issue, meet with the team during the first
week of the project, and attend the final briefing.
“The students were very professional in
the sense that they were committed to what
they were doing and very respectful of our
time,” says BCF’s Esner.
The ultimate beneficiary of the students’
hard work, however, is likely to be the students
themselves. “The Lab is one of the
reasons why I chose Milano originally,” says
Chandler Griffin. “It is not just theory. It is
theory in practice.”
“Having a project like this is extremely
valuable,” says Aryn Bloodworth. “We get
thrown right into a real policy problem. We
have to come up with a way to do the research
and get people to talk to us. We have
to develop a series of recommendations and
develop a final presentation. It is exciting
to know that what we are working on is not
just an assignment but a real project that will
serve a purpose and help a group achieve
their mission.”
Andrew French believes that nonprofits
get more than just help with their issues
when they work with the students at Milano.
“They are helping to train the next generation
of leaders for their sector.”
For information about participating in
the “Laboratory in Issues Analysis” at Milano,
contact Andrew French at frencha@
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Garza to Succeed Middleton-Jeter
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Garza, currently Chief
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succeeding Verona Middleton-Jeter
who is retiring
after 38 years at the
Settlement, seven of them
as Executive Director.
David Garza
Garza began at the
WDC in July 2001 and
became its Chief Administrator in 2005.
Prior to joining Henry Street, he worked as
a retail management executive and an independent
producer for film, television and
corporate marketing projects.
“David’s
success in building
the WDC into
one of the city’s
preeminent centers
and his deep
understanding of
the Henry Street
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Silver School of Social Work
advancing professionals,
advancing the profession
community will serve
the agency well going
forward,” said Robert
Harrison, Chairman of
Henry Street’s Board of
Directors, which elected
Garza at its February
22, 2010, meeting
following a six-month
national search. Dale
Burch, Henry Street
Board President, lauded
David’s passion for the
agency and his ability to
motivate and inspire.
“Today, the services
Henry Street provides are more vital than
ever,” said Garza. “I am honored and quite
thrilled with the opportunity to build on
the Settlement’s remarkable legacy as we
move into the future.”
“I know that I’m leaving Henry Street
in good hands,” said Middleton-Jeter. “I’m
confident that David will excel at leading
the Settlement in the years ahead.”
Garza graduated from Harvard College
in 1986 and later from the Institute
for Not-for-Profit Management at Columbia
Business School.
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Gunn Named President/CEO at Seedco
Barbara Dwyer Gunn
has been named President
and Chief Executive Officer
of the Structured Employment
and Economic
Development Corporation
(Seedco), the New York
City-based national nonprofit
organization.
Gunn will join Seedco
on April 1, 2010, succeeding
Diane Baillargeon,
who announced last year
that she would step down
as Seedco’s President and
Barbara Dwyer Gunn
Seedco is a national
nonprofit organization
that develops and oversees
programs to create
new economic opportunities
for low-income
people and communities,
as well as those
recovering from disasters.
The organization
is involved in workforce
development and assetbuilding
programs in six
states, as well as important
anti-poverty initiatives
CEO after 12 years at the organization.
Gunn comes to Seedco from the
American Museum of Natural History
in New York. There she served nearly 15
years as the Senior Vice President for Operations
and Government Relations. Gunn
began her tenure at the Museum as the
Vice President of Finance where she managed
financial operations and the issuance
of the Museum’s first bond financing.
Gunn also brings to Seedco extensive
public service experience, working in numerous
capacities in the administration of
New York City Mayor Edward I. Koch, including
Director of the Mayor’s Office of
Operations from 1986 to 1989.
“Barbara is an acknowledged nonprofit
leader who has shown strong and
effective management skills in complex
organizations. Both her work at the worldfamous
American Museum of Natural
History and her public service career have
demonstrated a deep commitment to the
people and communities Seedco serves,”
said Dr. George A. Pruitt, Chairman of the
Seedco Board.
such as the innovative Opportunity
NYC conditional cash transfer program in
New York City.
“It is a privilege to be asked to serve
as chief executive of Seedco, which has
become an important leader in asset building
and economic development in the nonprofit
world,” Gunn said.
Gunn received a B.A. in English
literature at the College of St. Rose in
Albany and a Masters of Public Administration
from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. A Manhattan
resident, currently she is a member of
the Board of Visitors for the University
of North Carolina.
Diane Baillargeon has been with
Seedco since 1998 and served as chief
executive since 2005. She will remain
actively involved with Seedco as a senior
policy fellow, continuing to play an important
role in shaping and developing
the organization’s respected policy work.
She will also continue to serve in President
Obama’s Council on Faith-Based and
Neighborhood Partnerships.
Corriero to Step Down
at Big Brothers Big Sisters NYC
The Honorable Michael
A. Corriero has announced
that he will step
down from his post as Executive
Director of Big
Brothers Big Sisters of New
York City at the conclusion
of the fiscal year to focus
his efforts as an advocate
for children and juvenile
justice reform locally and
nationally.
Judge Corriero recently
served on the New York
State Task Force on Transforming
Juvenile Justice;
Judge Michael A. Corriero
he will continue to work for reforms that
improve the opportunities of children living
in the poorest communities.
“My work with Big Brothers Big
Sisters of New York City, first as a board
member and then more recently as its
executive director, has been a phenomenal
experience,” said Judge Corriero. “I
am extremely grateful
for the opportunity to
serve such a noble organization
and for the
trust placed in me by
the Board of Trustees. I
will always consider it
an honor to have served
as executive director of
the agency.”
“Judge Corriero
brought a unique perspective
to the agency,”
said Jon May, President
of the BigsNYC Board
of Trustees. “The Board
of Trustees looks forward to his work in
finding national and international solutions
to better guide juveniles in trouble.”
BigsNYC will launch a national
search for a new executive director.
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PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE
Capobianco New Executive Director
at Catalog for Giving NYC
Mike Capobianco has
been named Executive Director
for The Catalog for
Giving of New York City.
Capobianco comes
to The Catalog from New
Leaders for New Schools,
where he was National Director.
His experience also
includes a blend of skills
developed in both the forprofit
and nonprofit sectors
at Scantron Corporation,
Technology Solutions Corporation,
and Per Scholas,
Mike Capobianco
an organization that utilizes technology
to help transform the lives of low-income
families.
“I first became involved with The Catalog
five years ago when I was the Director
of Strategic Partnerships of Computers for
Youth (CFY), a member organization at the
time,” says Capobianco. “With the help
of The Catalog, CFY has gone on to serve
thousands of school children in New York
City and across the country. As Executive
Director, I’m looking forward to mentoring
professionals in the field and sharing
my significant experience while providing
the leadership to deepen
The Catalog’s positive
impact on the New York
City community.”
The mission of The
Catalog for Giving is to
transform the lives of
New York City children
and teens whose opportunities
are severely limited
by poverty, crime,
drugs and violence. The
Catalog identifies emerging
local organizations
and designates funds to
support their efforts. Expenses of The Catalog
for Giving are fully funded by its board
of directors, thus 100 percent of donations
support the featured organizations and the
young people they serve. Since its inception
in 1994, The Catalog has raised over $10
million for its programs and helped transform
the lives of nearly 150,000 children
across the five boroughs.
Capobianco holds an undergraduate
degree in business administration from
Towson University in Towson, Maryland
and an MPA from Baruch College in New
York City.
Shapiro Appointed Executive Director
at The Door
first major welfare to
work initiative.
“It is with great
excitement that we announce
Ms. Shapiro’s
addition to our team,”
says Michael Zisser,
Chief Executive Officer
of The Door. “At a time
when young people
come to us in record
numbers seeking critical
services, I am confident
that Ms. Shapiro’s
leadership will take us
to new heights as we continue to provide
the highest quality programs for New York
City youth.”
Shapiro received her undergraduate
degree in Psychology and Women’s
Studies from Brown University, and her
Master in Public Policy from the John
F. Kennedy School of
Government at Har-
Julie L. Shapiro has
been named the new Executive
Director at The
Door, a leading New York
City youth development
agency.
Shapiro comes to
The Door with 16 years
experience designing and
implementing large scale,
high impact, multi-partner
human service and
workforce development
initiatives. Most recently Julie L. Shapiro
she served as Senior Vice
President at Seedco where she oversaw the
development, management and growth of
nationally recognized workforce development
programs, including one of the country’s
busiest One Stop Career Centers in
Upper Manhattan.
Prior to joining Seedco, Shapiro was
Assistant Vice President for Welfare to
Work Services at Federation Employment
and Guidance Services (F.E.G.S). She has vard University. She
also been a Project Manager in the New is a board member
York City Human Resources Administration’s
Office of Policy and Program Anal-
Employment and
of the New York City
ysis, where she helped launch the City’s Training Coalition.
I
NYNP
McGloin Retires from
Guild for Exceptional Children
Dr. Thomas Mc-
been opened under
Gloin, Assistant Director
for Residential Services
for The Guild for Exceptional
Children, Inc. has
announced his retirement
after 30 years of dedicated
service to the agency. Paul
Cassone, Executive Director/CEO
and the Guild’s
Board of Directors join
with the hundreds of staff,
the auspices of the
Guild. A staff of 35
has grown to a staff
of almost 400.
Prior to joining
the Guild, McGloin
worked at U.C.P.,
New York City from
1979 to 1981, serving
people with cerebral
palsy.
consumers and families at
Earlier in his
the Guild in thanking Dr.
career McGloin had
McGloin for his tireless Dr. Thomas McGloin
entered the priesthood,
commitment to the development
and enhancement of services for
individuals with developmental disabilities
in the Bay Ridge community.
McGloin came to the Guild for Exceptional
Children, Inc. as Residence Director
in October of 1981 when the Guild was a
small Agency with just three group homes.
Since then, under Dr. McGloin’s leadership,
10 additional 24 hour supervised residences
and 4 supportive apartments have
serving in a
variety of positions, including as Pastor of
St. Catherine of Sienna Parish in St. Albans
Queens and Retreat Master for Army
and Navy Chaplains in Japan and Korea in
1972 and in Germany 1973.
McGloin earned his bachelors degree
from Cathedral College and advanced degrees
from Catholic University and St.
John’s University. In 1975, he earned his
Doctorate from New York University.
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PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE
Stoehr Joins Graham Windham
Katherine Stoehr has
joined Graham Windham
as Vice President for Family
to Benefit Children. She
has a Master’s Degree
in Public Administra-
Permanency Planning
tion from Columbia
Services. She will oversee
the agency’s family foster
care and adoption services.
Stoehr comes to Graham
Windham from the Administration
for Children’s
Services were she has been
serving as Assistant Commissioner
University’s School of
International and Public
Affairs and a BA in Politics
and Philosophy from
the University of Pittsburgh
where she graduated
Summa Cum Laude
and was a Chancellor’s
for Program
Scholar and nominee
Policy and Development in
the Division of Child Protection.
Katherine Stoehr
for Rhodes and Marshall
Scholarships.
Before that, she served as Special
Advisor to Commissioner Mattingly focusing
on the implementation of major child
welfare initiatives and before that as Interim
Director of the ACS Office of Placement.
Previously, Stoehr served as Coordinator
of Quality, Evaluation and Improvement
at Catholic Guardian Society and as Director
of Quality Assurance at the Association
“Katie has a deep knowledge of child
welfare practice, ACS’ reform initiatives
and the dynamics of organizational change,”
said Poul Jensen, President and CEO. “We
are very pleased that she will be bringing her
expertise and commitment to serving children
and families to Graham Windham.”
Stoehr will take up her new position on
May 10th.
Abbott House Names Sr. VP/CFO
and Director of Finance
Abbott House has announced
two new appointments
to its finance department:
Senior Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer
Gerard P. Finn and Director
of Finance Dan Margoshes.
“Astute financial oversight
has arguably never
been more important than it
is now,” said Abbott House
President/CEO Claude B.
Meyers. “I’m confident
that the experience and acumen of both
Mr. Finn and Mr. Margoshes will strengthen
the financial foundation of our agency
as we chart a course through these challenging
times.”
“I am thrilled to join the staff of Abbott
House as the organization’s new Senior
Vice President and CFO,” said Finn, a Certified
Public Accountant with over 25 years of
experience including strong familiarity with
OMRDD funding and rate-setting. “It is my
intention to work with the agency’s board of
directors and executive staff to make Abbott
House stronger, more efficient and more robust
than it has ever been.”
Dan Margoshes and Gerard P. Finn
Director of Finance Margoshes
echoed the sentiment: “An organization’s
best practices begin in finance and operational
budgeting,” he said. “I look forward
to providing the financial direction that
will lead Abbott House into a position of
long-term sustainability as it continues
its service to children and families.” Margoshes
comes to Abbott House from the
National Football League, where he held a
variety of strategic and operational finance
roles, most recently providing financial
oversight of the NFL’s international business
activities as Vice President, International
Finance.
Nonprofit Seminar
The Offi ce of the Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo in
partnership with the Better Business Bureau and the Center
for Nonprofi t Strategy and Management
Present
Strength Through Partnership:
Charities Workshop on Fundraising
An opportunity to learn about:
- Selecting a Fundraiser
- Negotiating a Contract
- Monitoring a Campaign
- Better Business Bureau Charity Standards
- Legal Requirements
Speakers:
Karin Kunstler Goldman, Assistant Attorney General
Charities Bureau, New York State Department of Law
Claire Rosenzweig, CAE, President and CEO
The Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan New York
and its Education and Research Foundation
Monday, April 5, 2010
4:00-6:00 PM
Baruch College Information & Technology Building, Newman Conference Center,
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Leake & Watts Appoints Davidson
Director of Mother/Infant Program
Leake & Watts has
named Deborah Davidson
to be the Director of
Mother/Infant program
in the Bronx serving teen
mothers in foster care as
well as their babies.
Most recently, Davidson
was the Program Coordinator/Supervisor
of
the Baby & Me and Parent-Child
Home Programs
at SCO Families of Services
which uses books Deborah Davidson
and toys as the tools to
increase literary and communication skills
as well as enhance social-emotional development,
and strengthen the parent-child
relationship.
Bringing her experience with teen
mothers in early childhood
education to her
new role, Davidson
stated: “Leake & Watts
is doing great work in
the community. I look
forward to building
upon the foundation of
success that has already
been established in the
Mother/Infant program.”
Davidson has a
Master Degree in Social
Work from Hunter College
and a Bachelor of
Arts in Psychology from Baruch College.
She is also trained in SPIN, a strengthsbased
practice focusing on the identification
and augmentation of every individual’s
strengths and resources.
CAPC’s Chen Named to Charter
Revision Commission
David Chen, Executive Director of
the Chinese-American Planning Council
Inc., has been named to the New York
City Charter Revision Commission. In
addition to his role at CAPC, Chen is the
founding Chairman of the Board of Di-
rectors of the Chung Pak Local Development
Corporation. He is also a member
of the board of the Chinatown Partnership
Local Development Corporation and
served as a Commissioner on the 2004-
2005 Charter Revision Commission.

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PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE
UCP Suffolk Appoints Wolf Director
of Health Center Operations
Peter Wolf has joined
United Cerebral Palsy Association
of Suffolk as
Director of Health Center
Operations. Wolf will
oversee the administration
and fiscal operations of
UCP’s three Health Centers
located in Central Islip,
Hauppauge and Port Jefferson
Station.
“Peter Wolf brings with
him an impressive background
in the healthcare
Peter Wolf
field and a fiscal acuity which will help
further expand UCP Suffolk’s delivery of
quality medical and therapeutic services to
persons with disabilities,” said President/
CEO Stephen H. Friedman.
Prior to joining the UCP Suffolk
executive team, Wolf
was the Senior Network
Vice President/Special
Director of the Southern
Brooklyn/Staten Island
Health Network. Previously,
he held the positions
of Chief Operating
and Financial Officer
at Coney Island Hospital,
Chief Financial
Officer at North Bronx
Healthcare Network,
and Chief Financial Officer
for the Lincoln Medical and Mental
Health Center.
Wolf holds a Master degree in Planning
from Harvard University and a Bachelor
of Arts degree from the State University
of New York at Albany.
Sampogna Joins Leake & Watts
Susan Sampogna has
joined Leake & Watts as
the new Director of the
Residential Treatment Center
on the Yonkers campus
which serves youth ages
12-21 in need of therapeutic
and educational support
Sampogna comes to
Leake & Watts from the
Administration for Children’s
Services, having recently
served as the Director
of the Office of Safety Susan Sampogna
First, a hotline available to
mandated reporters who have ongoing safety
concerns related to open child protective
investigations.
“I am delighted to join the team at
Leake & Watts when so much expansion
Kenneth C. Thompson, MBA, CPA has
joined nonprofit HealthCare Chaplaincy in
New York as Chief Financial Officer.
For the past decade, Thompson has
worked in the not-for-profit sector in the
fields of finance and accounting. Most recently
he served as Vice President, Finance
and Administration at the United Nations
Association of the USA. Previously he was
Assistant Director, Administration and Finance,
at the Courant Institute of Mathematand
diversification of
services is already in motion,”
says Sampogna,
“It is the opportunity to
make a real difference
at such an exciting time
for the organization.” In
addition, Sampogna has
experience as Director of
Social Services in Congregate
Care at Catholic
Guardian Society and
is a Faculty Advisor at
the Fordham University
Graduate School of Social
Service.
Sampogna has a Master Degree in
Social Work from Tulane University and a
Bachelor of Arts from with a major in Clinical
Sociology from Ithaca College.
Rivera New VP at Exponents, Inc.
Sam Rivera has been
appointed Vice President
of Exponents, Inc. The
announcement was made
by Exponents’ Founder
and President Howard
Josepher, LCSW at the
108th graduation of the
ARRIVE Program.
“Like many of us at
Exponents, Sam turned
his life around from one
of drugs and crime to
become a contributing
member of society,” said
Josepher. “He is an example of the transformative
power of turning a negative into
a positive and becoming a source of healing
and hope for others.”
Rivera graduated ARRIVE in 1992
and has been working with the agency
since 2007. He has 20 years of direct and
administrative experience in substance
abuse treatment, criminal
justice and HIV/AIDS prevention
and care. He is the former
Community Co-Chair of the NYC
HIV Prevention Planning Group,
a former member of the NYC Department
of Health Commissioner’s
Advisory Board and former
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Co-Chair of UCHAPS
(Urban Coalition of
HIV/AIDS Prevention
Services).
Josepher noted that
Rivera’s appointment is
part of Exponents’ strategic
plan to ensure the
agency’s continued legacy
providing strengthbased
programs focusing
on the health and
wellness of participants.
“I want everyone to
know that I believe the
agency would be in good hands should my
role change,” said Josepher. “For now, I
don’t see that happening and I want people
who care to welcome and accept this
announcement with happiness for Sam
and understanding that we are looking out
for the future.”
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Kenneth Thompson Named
HealthCare Chaplaincy CFO
ical Sciences at New York University, and
the Deputy Controller of the New School
University.
Thompson began his career in the public
accounting sector.
HealthCare Chaplaincy is a national
leader in the research, education, and practice
of multifaith patient-centered care. It
helps people find meaning and comfort –
regardless of religion or beliefs – in stressful
health care situations.
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PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE
Egan Named VP Program Services
at UCP Suffolk
Eileen McDonald
munity Residences and
Egan has been appointed
Vice President, Program
Services at United Cerebral
Palsy Association of
Suffolk. She will oversee
Adult Day Services, the
Community Program Center
(CPC), Educational
and Residential Services.
“I am confident Ms.
Program Development and
Special Projects at Nassau
AHRC and Director, Residential
Services at new England
Villages in Pembroke
Massachusetts.
Egan joins the organization
with over twenty-five
years experience in the field
of special education, developmental
disabilities, and
Egan’s extensive background
and experience Eileen McDonald Egan advocacy. She holds a Master
developing and managing
OMRDD, State Education Department and
Department of Health programs coupled
with her leadership qualities make her an
excellent addition to our executive team,”
said President/CEO Stephen H. Friedman.
“Her talents will greatly enhance the unparalleled
service currently provided by
UCP Suffolk.”
Before joining UCP Suffolk, Egan
was the Vice President, Special Needs at
Terence Cardinal Cook Health Center in
New York City. Previously, she held the
positions of Assistant Executive Director
at the Shield Institute, Director of Comfrom
of Public Health degree
Yale University’s School of Medicine,
a Masters of Arts degree from State
University of New York at Stony Brook
and is a graduate of Southern Connecticut
State University.
UCP Suffolk, based in Hauppauge,
NY, provides services to 4,000 children
and adults with disabilities annually and
65% of those served are individuals with
a disability other than cerebral palsy. Job
training and placement, physical therapy,
individual and family support, early intervention,
preschool, school age, adult day
and residential programs are available.
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Hollywood New Assistant VP
at Samaritan Village
James Hollywood
tor of Samaritan’s Intensive
LCSW has been appointed
Assistant Vice President
of Residential Programs
at Samaritan Village, Inc.
Hollywood’s responsibilities
will include providing
clinical leadership and
management at Samaritan’s
Ellenville, Van Wyck,
Outpatient Program,
was promoted to the position
of Assistant Vice
President for Program
Development.
Hollywood is an experienced
clinical manager
with over 22 years
of experience working
Highbridge, Richmond
in the fields of substance
Hill, and 53rd Street programs.
abuse, mental health and
homeless services. Most
James Hollywood
The announcement
recently, he served as
follows a series of other senior management
appointments at Samaritan Village by President/CEO
Tino Hernandez. In October, the
agency named Sheila Greene to be Vice
President of Communications and Intergovernmental
Affairs. At the same time, Carol
Davidson LCSW, CASAC was promoted
to Senior Director of Veterans Services. In
December Steve Rockman, Program Direc-
Senior Director for Residential Services
at Palladia. Prior to working with Palladia,
Hollywood was the Program Director of
Urban Pathway’s Olivieri Center for Homeless
Women.
Hollywood holds a BA in Sociology
from St. John’s University and an MSW
from Hunter College School of Social
Work.
Daymond Promoted at SIMHS
The Staten Island Mental
Health Society (SIMHS) has
named Valarie M. Daymond,
LCSW to be Director of its
Teen Center, Project for Academic
Student Success (PASS),
and Afterschool GED Preparation
Program. Daymond will
continue to lead SIMH’s Family
Support Mental Health Program,
where she has served as
Director since 2003.
Daymond joined the
SIMHS in 1996 as a social
worker in the agency’s Family
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and was named that
program’s director
two years later.
Prior to joining the
SIMHS, she was a
caseworker, and later
a supervisor, for
the New York City
Administration for
Children’s Services.
“Valarie Daymond
has demonstrated
exemplary
Valerie Daymond, LCSW
work with the children
and families who receive services at
the Family Support Center,” said SIMHS
President/CEO Dr. Kenneth Popler. “Her
aptitude and experience, combined with her
superior interpersonal and leadership skills,
will ensure that she will be also be an extraordinary
director of our various programs
for adolescents coping with mental health
and chemical dependency challenges.”
Daymond earned her BS degree from
the University of Florida, and her MSW degree
from the Wurzweiler School of Social
Work of Yeshiva University, Manhattan.
The Teen Center provides treatment
services to adolescents and young adults
who are dependent on alcohol and/or drugs
or whose family members are challenged by
chemical addictions. PASS provides alcohol/
drug prevention services and free academic
tutoring for at-risk preteens and teens. Both
programs have sites in St. George and Great
Kills locations. The GED Preparation Program
is located in St. George.
The Family Support Center provides
bi-lingual outpatient mental health services
for children up to age 18 and their families,
as well as an array of support services.

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EVENTS
NYNP Fire Safety Conference
More than 150 representatives from 50 nonprofit agencies turned out on March 10th to learn the
latest on new fire safety regulations and initiatives impacting nonprofit service providers. The free
Fire Safety Conference was jointly sponsored by NYNP, Briscoe Protective Systems and Metropolitan
College of New York.
Attendees got an update on the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities’
new fire safety initiative which comes in response to last year’s tragic fire at an OMRDD residence in
Wells, NY. No new mandates have been issued to OMRDD licensed providers as of yet, said Sheila
McBain, Deputy Commissioner for Quality Management. However, she urged agencies to review
the 16 recommendations outlined by OMRDD’s Fire Safety Panel of State and National Experts in
their Final Report to the Commissioner issued in February as a way to anticipate steps that might be
forthcoming. Charles Kearley, Director of OMRDD’s new Office of Safety and Security Services,
offered an overview of the agency’s current planning process in this area.
Bob Williams, President of Briscoe Protective Systems, provided training for testing on the New
York Fire Department’s new requirements for “Certificate of Fitness for Supervision of Fire Alarm
Systems and Other Related Systems” which impacts thousands of agencies in operating facilities
which were not previously subject to Certificate of Fitness requirements.
An overview of the new Amanda’s Law requirements for carbon monoxide detectors was provided
by Dana Ferrer, District Sales Manager for EST Fire and Sound.
Additional insights into fire and life safety issues were provided by architect James Vassalotti of
Vassalotti Associates; Rob Storey, Director of Risk Management at Irwin Siegel Agency; and Joseph
Woznica, Deputy Assist. Chief, Bureau of Fire Protection, NYFD.
Agencies and individuals interested in learning more about or obtaining training for the newlyrequired
NYFD Certificate of Fitness for Supervision of Fire Alarm Systems and Other Related Systems
can contact Briscoe Protective Systems at 888-274-7263.
NYNP Publisher Robby Long introduces panelists (from left) Fred Scaglione, Editor
of NYNP; Charles Kearley, Director of OMRDD’s new Office of Safety and Security
Services; Sheila McBain, Deputy Commissioner for Quality Management, OMRDD;
Bob Williams, President of Briscoe Protective Systems; and Rob Storey, Director of
Risk Management at Irwin Siegel Agency.
VCG Celebrates 40th Anniversary;
Honors Harlem RBI
Volunteer Consulting Group
(VCG) celebrated its 40th Anniversary
on March 10th at the Harvard
Club of New York City. As part of
this event, it honored the Board of
Harlem RBI with the First Annual
Brooke W. Mahoney Award for
Outstanding Board Leadership.
VCG works regionally and
nationally to strengthen nonprofit
boards’ governance and management
capabilities. It recognized
Harlem RBI’s Board of Directors
for their ability to “step up” during
an economically challenging
time. Harlem RBI’s Board donated
more than $700,000 in the face of
the global economic crisis in 2009,
a 100% increase from the previous
Peter Daneker (Board Director), Richard Berlin
(Harlem RBI Executive Director), Kenneth Rosh
(Board Chairman and President), Robert Sheehan
(Board Director and Vice President), Ray Dominguez
(Board Director and Harlem RBI Alumnus) and Stuart
A. Fraser (Board Director).
year. The Harlem RBI Board also developed a 12 step “Guide to Protecting Harlem RBI
in Uncertain Times” that other non-profits are adopting nationally to take steps toward
safeguarding their own finances. Harlem RBI is a 19-year-old youth-development organization
in East Harlem.
The VGC’s John C. Whitehead, along with its three other Founders, T.J. Dermot Dunphy,
Harold Tanner and Byron R. Wien, served as Honorary Founding Co-Chairmen of the
Anniversary Celebration. The event honored VCG’s four decades of service and paid tribute
to Brooke W. Mahoney, VCG’s first Executive Director, who passed away in 2007.
“Brooke, a nationally renown governance leader and innovator, was passionate about
opening non-profit boardrooms to the talent, expertise and diversity required to ensure successful
organizations,” said VCG’s Executive Director David LaGreca.During the nominating
process, VCG looked for non-profits that demonstrated strategic board recruitment,
clear communication of expectations, successful evaluation systems, a culture of problem
solving, a deep passion for the mission and mechanisms for hearing the voices of those
served.
The four finalists for the award included: Brotherhood/Sister Sol, Community Voices
Heard, COSIA and The Fortune Society. The Brooke W. Mahoney Award was made possible
with support from The Rauch Foundation
St. Dominic’s Raises Close to $1 million
at Awards Dinner
The 29th Annual
Friends of St.
Dominic’s Business
& Labor Awards
Dinner raised more
than $935,000 for
the agency this year.
Over 1,090 leaders of
business and labor/
construction trade
organizations turned
out for the January
26th event which was
held at the Waldorf-
Astoria.
Michael V. Belluzzi,
President and
Award recipients Michael V. Belluzzi (l.) and Thomas R. Nelson
(r) with Rosanna Scotto, John T. White, Sr. Joseph Mary
Mahoney and Executive Director Judy Kydon.
Business Manager
of the Sheet Metal Workers International Association Local Union No. 28, and
Thomas R. Nelson, Senior Managing Director of CB Richard Ellis in the Northeast
Region, were recipients of the Francis J.P. McHale Memorial Award and the Victory
Award, respectively.
Fox 5’s “Good Day New York” co-host Rosanna Scotto served as the dinner’s
mistress of ceremonies and introduced the Saint Dominic’s Home new “Did
You Know” video. Sr. Joseph Mary Mahoney, O.P., President of Friends of Saint
Dominic’s, thanked the room full of supporters and expressed the organization’s
gratitude for their continued generous support of Saint Dominic’s Home in such
difficult economic times.
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JOBS JOBS JOBS
Director of Operations
for CYO
Catholic Youth Organization, a division of Catholic
Charities Community Services, Archdiocese of New
York, is seeking a Director of Operations. CYO assists and
supports parishes in developing vibrant parish youth ministry
programs—spiritual, cultural, and athletic—for young people
throughout the boroughs and upstate counties. The Director
of Operations will be responsible for the development and
implementation of an over arching structure for effective
parish-based youth programming. Supervision of county
directors and promoting awareness and support for the activities
of CYO. BA in Sports Mgmt., Recreation, Education or
related field. Minimum 5yrs related exp. Must be flexible with
schedule. Weekend/evening hrs required. 90K
Send resume and cover letter indicating position of interest
and salary requirements to:
Catholic Charities
Human Resources Dept.
1011 First Avenue
New York, NY 10022
Fax: (212) 826-8795
Email: cccsjobs@archny.org
Social Worker
Astor Services for Children & Families seeks a Social
Worker for our Residential Treatment Facility in Rhinebeck.
Candidate will provide services to children and families on assigned
caseloads including direct supportive treatment services
appropriate to meeting the needs in the case and helping the
client get connected to other needed services. Serves as a
liaison with the family and with outside agencies; works as a
member of a multi-disciplinary treatment team consisting of a
psychiatrist, psychologist, special education teacher as well as
nursing and direct care staff.
Requirements: LMSW and eligibility for the NY State licensing.
Will consider candidates in process of MSW
Benefits:
Four weeks annual vacation, 4 personal days, 12 holidays, 12
sick days,. Fully paid life, long term disability, and dental.
Email resumes to cbagnall@astorservices.org
Please Reference Job Code: 77SW
FAMILY LAW/DOMESTIC
VIOLENCE ATTORNEY
Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation (NMIC)
serves the Washington Heights and Inwood communities. All NMIC
services are bilingual in English and Spanish.
NMIC seeks an experienced domestic violence/family law attorney
to join its Legal Services Department and NMIC’s Domestic Violence
Project (DVP), an interdisciplinary team of social workers and legal professionals
who assist low income victims of intimate partner violence.
Requires representation in Family Court and Integrated Domestic
Violence Court; filing DV-based immigration petitions; advocacy in
other civil law areas as needed, representing the project at various
meetings; conducting training seminars; providing consultations and
technical assistance; advise in matrimonial matters; and referrals for
other services.
Applicants must be admitted in NYS and have relevant litigation experience.
Spanish language ability is required. Experience in other areas
of legal services/public interest law practice a plus.
Competitive salary, four weeks vacation, 14 holidays, health, life and
dental insurance, long term disability, employee assistance program,
employer contribution 401(k) and other generous time-off benefits.
Send resume/cover/writing sample (with position
in subject line) to NMIC, Human Resources
Director, 76 Wadsworth Avenue, NY, NY 10033 or
employment@nmic.org or fax to (212) 928-4180.
NMIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
DIRECT CARE COUNSELORS
Southern Westchester Non-Profit Mental Health Agency seeks
F/T, P/T, Overnight, Relief & Weekend Direct Care Counselors
with excellent interpersonal and communication skills to provide
restorative services to recipients recovering from mental illness
& substance abuse. Clean driver’s license/Car Req’d. Excellent
benefits, 401K & tuition reimbursement. Competitive Salary. Fax
salary requirements & resume to Kathy (914) 835-8905 EOE
Sr Dir. – MR/DD
Brooklyn based agency seeks leader to oversee ICF, IRA, transitional,
employment pgm, and MSC svcs in NYC. Applicant must
have B.A and extensive onsite exp. In residential/clinic services with
MR/DD consumers. M.S Preferred. Position involves managerial/
admin oversite of staff, consumer benefits, billing, QA and Compliance.
Required: On-Call, Valid Driver’s License, Car, computer
literacy. Competitive salary with comprehensive benefits package
Forward resume to cemanuel@artcny.org
ABBOTT HOUSE, an innovative multi-service agency, seeks
the following professionals:
CHILD PSYCHIATRIST(PT)/
PSYCHOLOGIST (FT)
Irvington, NY
Seeking board eligible/board certified part time Child Psychiatrist,
M.D. flexible hours up to 14 hours per week. Expertise in psychopharmacology
with excellent clinical skills. Bilingual spanish a
strong plus.
Also seeking full time NYS Licensed Psychologist, PhD/PsyD.
Experience in trauma therapeutic modalities preferred.
To work with multi-disciplinary team serving children in Residential
Treatment Center and Foster care programs.
SOCIAL WORKERS
• Therapeutic Foster Boarding Homes- Westchester, Bronx,
Montgomery or Dutchess
• Group Homes- Mt. Kisco
LMSW, LMSW Eligible. To provide clinical and case management
services to children, adolescents and families in foster care. Min.
1 yr of Social Work exp. Knowledge of ACS/DSS systems-CON-
NECTIONS preferred or excellent computer skills.
Valid driver’s license & car required.
Competitive salary. Excellent benefits package.
Fax or e-mail resume with cover letter & salary requirements to:
914-591-9435, HR Dept hr@abbotthouse.net
ABBOTT HOUSE
100 N. Broadway
Irvington NY 10533
Visit us at www.abbotthouse.net
EOE
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
APPLIED BEHAVIOR SCIENCE SPECIALIST
QUALIFICATIONS
We are currently seeking (1) ABSS. Applicants must have a Bachelor’s/Master
degree in psychology with a minimum of one year experience working
with the MRDD population. Also, the must be SCIP-R and CPR/First Aid
Certified.
Identify resident strengths and needs in the area of cognitive skills, adaptive
behavior, and social and affect development and behavior/emotional functioning.
Development of programming to meet resident needs. Primary liaison
with outside therapists and psychiatrist and monitor psychiatric treatment.
SALARY - Negotiable
We offer competitive salaries and benefit package. Interested parties should
send their resume to:
Paul J. Cooper Center for Human Services, Inc.
519 Rockaway Avenue, 2nd Floor Brooklyn, NY 11212
Attention Personnel Department
Email: TeresaStewart@pauljcooper.org
Harlem Children’s Zone Promise
Academy Charter Schools are currently
recruiting for Teachers and other schools personnel
for the 2010-2011 school year. Come and explore the
opportunities that we have available.
Event: Career Fair
Date: April, 9th, 2010
Location: 35 East 125th Street, New York, NY
10035
Time: 4:30pm-7:00pm
SOCIAL WORKERS (INDIVIDUAL CARE
COORDINATORS) needed to provide
individualized services and service coordination
to seriously emotionally disturbed children and
families. MSW or related master’s degree plus
two years exp., or BA plus four years exp. with this
population. Excellent benefits. Positions available
in Bronx and Rockland County. To apply on line
and to view other positions,
visit our website www.stdomincshome.org,
and click on employment. or go to URL:
https://home.eease.com/recruit/id=492915.
EOE
WAIVER SERVICE PROVIDER
COORDINATOR -
BRIDGES TO HEALTH (B2H)
The Waiver Service Provider Coordinator (WSPC)
works collaboratively with the B2H WSP Administrative
Team in the recruitment and screening of Waiver Service
Providers (WSPs) for the Bridges to Health program.
The WSPC will schedule and track WSPs participation in
required trainings. The WSPC will coordinate and match
WSPs with children and their families based on interest,
commonalities and scheduling. The WSPC will work in
conjuction with the WSP Administrative Supervisor in providing
ongoing supervision to all WSPs to ensure quality
services for the B2H program. The WSPC will review and
ensure that all agency, ACS and OCFS mandates have
been met.
Qualifications, skills and abilities:
MSW preferred, Solid organizational skills, Knowledgeable
with Microsoft Office, Bilingual preferred, Flexible
work schedule, Must have good interpersonal skills and
be able to work with people from various demographics.
Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE)
Please email resumes to ilora@cgshb.org,
fax to 212-421-1709 or mail to I. Lora,
Catholic Guardian Society and Home Bureau,
1011 First Avenue, 10th floor New York, NY 10022
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Please email resumes to ilora@cgshb.org,
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Good Shepherd Services
A leader in NYC youth and family services is looking
for professionals for the following positions located in
Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx:
* SOCIAL WORKER
* CASE WORKER
* PROGRAM DIRECTOR
* SOCIAL WORK
SUPERVISOR
* YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
COUNSELORS
In addition to competitive pay and benefits,
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and full descriptions, visit
our website:
www.goodshepherds.org
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profit organization dedicated to
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Fax: (718) 321-8774
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