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Palladia has long focused on the particular needs of women in treatment, staging conferences, [3] pioneering ways to bring services to hard-to-reach clients [4] and developing programs that highlighted the connection between trauma and addiction. [5]
Created in 1993, the department was the first of its kind nationally; with a mission exclusively focused on the issue of homelessness. [7] The Department of Homeless Services was created in response to the growing number of homeless New Yorkers and the 1981 New York Supreme Court Consent Decree that mandates the State provide shelter to all homeless people. [8]
Sanctuary for Families is a New York City-based non-profit organization dedicated to aiding victims of domestic violence and their children. Founded in 1984, its services include crisis intervention, emergency and transitional shelter, legal assistance and representation, adult and child counseling, and long-term follow-up care.
Home for the Friendless, 32 East 30th Street Home Chapel, 29 East 29th Street and 82 East 30th Street Woody Crest Home, 936 Woodycrest Avenue, The Bronx. The American Female Guardian Society (full name, American Female Guardian Society and Home for the Friendless) was an American prototype civic improvement association and a pioneer child-saving institution. [1]
Safe Horizon's Anti-Trafficking Program (ATP) meets practical needs for victims of human trafficking, such as food, clothing, and shelter, as well as legal assistance. ATP was established in 2001 [ 31 ] and has helped clients and provided intelligence to authorities allowing law enforcement to locate traffickers since its very beginnings. [ 32 ]
[4] [5] She became coordinator of the Center for the Elimination of Violence in the Family, [6] and in 1977 co-founded Women's Survival Space in Brooklyn, [7] the city's first state-funded shelter for battered women. [1] [8] She was a rape prevention educator at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and a founding member of the Mayor's Task ...
Kingsbridge Heights Community Center (KHCC) is a settlement house founded in 1974 by community activists Janet Athanasidy, Patricia Burns, and Mary McLoughlin, serving the Kingsbridge Heights neighborhood and the Bronx.
The 14th Regiment of the New York State Militia, organized in the 1840s, [3] [4] was the United States' most active state militia by the late 19th century. [5] Nicknamed the "Fighting Fourteenth" and the "Red-Legged Devils", [4] [6] the 14th Regiment participated in numerous battles during the American Civil War. [7]