To get desperately needed help straight to Puerto Rico after back-to-back Hurricanes Irma and María devastated the island, yesterday, September 28, 2017, local, national and Puerto Rican organizations launched “Estoy con Puerto Rico” (I am with Puerto Rico) at Catholic Charities NY headquarters in Manhattan. READ MORE
Organizations throughout the New York area are working to send relief to Puerto Rico. NBC New York talks about The Foundling’s Head Start programs in Puerto Rico. READ MORE
Mashable compiles a list of ways to help Puerto Rico as it recovers from Hurricane Maria. The New York Foundling is included as a charity to support due to our work in PR through Head Start programs. READ MORE
The New York Foundling is included in this roundup of ways people can help with relief efforts in Puerto Rico. READ MORE
The New York Foundling’s Mott Haven Academy Middle School for Social Leadership launched at the start of the 2017-18 school year. READ MORE
Mott Haven Academy, entering its 10th year of offering a special curriculum and now expanding with new 5th and 6th grade classes, hopes eventually to offer instruction for grades K-8, reports Kalah Siegel in Mott Haven Herald. READ MORE
The New York Post spoke with Bill Baccaglini, the CEO and President of The New York Foundling, about our efforts to educate children in foster care through Haven Academy and our tutoring program. READ MORE
As part of a series featuring millennial parents who have children with developmental disabilities, a foster mom with The New York Foundling opens up about her home and raising several children with disabilities, behavioral challenges or other special circumstances. READ MORE
“Young people in foster care – especially in group homes or in households that limit kitchen access – often lack autonomy in their meal-planning or food preparation,” reporter David Brand writes. To show what programs are doing to change this, David features the efforts of The New York Foundling’s Young Mothers program to introduce youth to good nutrition and healthy food choices. READ MORE
“Students, faculty and supporters gathered at Mott Haven Academy at the beginning of the school year to celebrate the school’s 10 year anniversary and expansion into middle school.” READ MORE
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