Hour Children

Hour Children provides transitional housing and services at five locations and permanent housing at three locations for formerly incarcerated mothers and children.hour Children offers intense care management to residents including couseling, job readiness, relapse prevention services, baby sitting services, an after-school club, food pantry, and mentoring programs for Children whose parents are incarcerated and for women upon reentry. Hour Children's two thrift shops and furniture outlet offer employment training to residents while providing organizational revenue and needed resources. Services to the local community include the thrift stores and community food pantry and teen program. Hour Children runs the family service program in bedford hills and taconic correctional faciclities which includes a nursery program,children's center, advocacy, parenting and domestic violence programs. An advocacy program is also run in rose m. singer at rikers island. Outreach services are provided for women on work release at edgecombe correctional facility.