Met Council

The emergency food program helps families struggling to feed their children, New immigrants with little income, or frail elderly people without nutritious food, met Council's kosher food program meets the needs of all who are hungry. Providing a holistic care program of food packages and emergency food vouchers, met Council is meeting the complex needs of struggling New yorkers. All food provided is kosher, making met Council a unique provider for the needy Jewish population. At the same time, all nutritional resources are available to anyone in need, whether they keep kosher or not, regardless if they are Jewish or not. For example, met Council supplied over 30 halal food pantries with halal certified food for mostly immigrant clients across New York.

Housing - met Council and its affiliated housing companies provide housing for special needs populations: low income elderly, and homeless individuals in the city of New York. These programs and entities are primarily funded by government programs. The entities provide approximately 1,100 units of housing.

Crisis intervention services is a resource to help people when in serious need. Families who have no health insurance and must pay for medical bills; an elderly woman who loses her husband and faces eviction; a poor person discharged from the hospital with no place to go - the cases are endless and always varied. Additionally, our benefits enrollment program provides support to clients in both education and enrollment into New York city's public benefits programs, including medicaid, child & family health plus, and the supplemental nutrition assistance program. Met Council has a specific expertise in supporting victims of family violence in insular communities as well as holocaust survivors.

Benefits access & home repair services