Program areas at Union Settlement Association
Early childhood education & family service: providing high quality early care and education services for head start and child care eligible families and children. Operating from 6 sites across east harlem, we serve 2-, 3-, and 4-years olds in classroom designed to meet the social-emotional, cognitive, physical, and language needs of the children to support school readiness. In addition, our family child care networks supports individual family child care providers in the provision of high-quality services to infants, toddler, and preschoolers following the nycdoe's let's play curriculum. The early childhood program and the family child care network serve over 500 children yearly.family services: providing programming to community residents in responde to identified needs by community members. Community members are fully integrated into the decision-making process for our two-family focused programs: the family enrichment center and the community partnership. These two programs provide vital services to community residents across east harlem in collaboration with other community-based partners and program governing boards that include community-residents as partners in designing and offering services.
Mental health services: our licensed outpatient mental health counseling clinic provides critical strength-based and trauma-informed mental health services to over 1,300 children, adolescents, adults and seniors each year, helping them to heal, develop resiliency, and lead fulfilling and productive lives.
Youth services:our youth services department provides more than 3,000 children, adolescents and young adults with programs that foster creativity, curiosity, resilience and problem solving; instill habits of persistence and perseverance; and enhance social and emotional skills. Services include afterschool and summer programs, college preparation, job readiness, and programs for disconnected and court-involved youth.
Other programs include: senior services:our five older adult centers, meals on wheels, and naturally occurring retirement community (norc) programs provide nutrition, wellness, education, case assistance, transportation and other services to over 1,500 older adults each year.adult education:english language, literacy, digital literacy, job training and other educational classes for over 400 adult students each year.economic development:business classes, technology education, neighborhood improvements, access to capital and technical assistance provided to over 500 entrepreneurs and small businesses throughout east harlem.