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Can You Help a Client Take the Next Step?
Next Step has pre-screened and motivated job candidates seeking jobs in maintenance, food service, stock room, construction, customer service, and more... Thank you to Chipotle, TJ Maxx, and Fried Frank for our most recent hires.
If you're hiring or able to able to make an introduction to a hiring manager, call now!
Monica Roquitte,
Next Step
Program Director
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212-620-0340 ext. 355 |
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Here Come the Vans! | | |
Two additional medical vans join the fleet this summer! Get ready to welcome two more medical vans - the CareVan and Lifeline join the MedVan, StreetSmart, and ScanVan in delivering primary care and radiology services. With demand growing for medical services for homeless men and women, Medical Director Roslynn Glicksman identified mobile healthcare as the most effective way to meet that need. "Our vans travel directly to the clients - in shelters, on the streets, or at drop-in centers. With the recent closing of several hospitals and public clinics, our patients literally have nowhere else to go. Once the new vans are licensed and on the move, we will be able to expand our schedule to meet this need."
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It's Almost Time to Move In at the New Fletcher Street Residence | | |
 Construction is 95% complete at our newest residence in the Bronx and we're getting ready to welcome 105 new tenants in this supportive housing development. One wing includes 55 studio apartments for mentally-ill men and women living independently. The other wing is a therapeutic community for 50 men in recovery from alcohol and/ or substance abuse.
This model has proven effective because it is based on both individual and group counseling and a job program at the Times Square Alliance. The new building helps to meet the growing demand for affordable and safe housing for formerly homeless New Yorkers. |
| Parole Support and Treatment Program Featured in The Christian Science Monitor | |
An opinion piece in The Christian Science Monitor points to our Parole Support and Treatment Program as a promising model providing a cost effective and humane alternative to prison:
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Robert Blocker has directed PSTP since its 2002 inception. |
"In 2002, Project Renewal, a New York City-based nonprofit, collaborated with New York's mental health and parole supervision agencies to launch the Parole Support and Treatment Program. The program helps transition ex-offenders with serious mental illnesses to community living by combining transitional housing, work with specially trained parole officers, and readily accessible services - including peer counselors who serve as positive role models. One forthcoming study finds that participation in the program cuts the odds of re-arrest by 44 percent. It costs about $23,000 annually per participant, less than half the $52,000 annual price tag for incarcerating an adult in New York State prison and a fraction of the $240,000 per patient per year cost at Central New York Psychiatric Center. And for those who transition successfully, the cost to the state goes away entirely."
Click here to read the full story. |
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Your July e-news is packed with coming attractions! To meet the demand for healthcare and affordable housing, new medical vans and new housing are just around the corner. See a preview of these innovative services along with a look at our Parole Support and Treatment Program - another model setting the stage as an alternative service to prison.
