For families where abuse or neglect endanger children, New York City Mission Society’s Family Preservation Services give parents tools to cope in hard times, the ability to create a safe home environment, and help to prevent children from being placed in foster care.
The Family Life Management Center at the Minisink Townhouse and the Beacon Center for Family Services at Wadleigh Secondary School on 114th Street provide support services, including:
- Case Management
- Advocacy
- Counseling for Parents
The Enhanced Teens Program provides more intensive services, including psychological and psychiatric care.
Uniting Families in Transition (UFIT) offers group sessions about:
- Parenting Skills
- Anger Management
- Substance Abuse
- Domestic Violence
- Youth Development
Pregnancy Prevention
New York City Mission Society provides a comprehensive teenage pregnancy prevention program, Club Real Deal. The program serves boys and girls with education, employment, family life and sexuality education, self-expression, lifetime individual sports, medical and dental care, and mental health services over five years.
We undertake this because teen pregnancy and birth lead to a reinforcing cycle of poverty: Girls who give birth as teens are more likely to drop out of high school. Their children are more likely to do worse in school and drop out of high school, be incarcerated during adolescence, give birth as a teenager, and face unemployment as a young adult.
Violence Prevention
New York City Mission Society reinvents gun violence prevention using a public health approach. By envisioning the spread of violence like an infectious disease that can be interrupted, Operation SNUG (“Guns” spelled backwards) works directly with those who are most likely to commit gun violence—young people—and persuade them to find peaceful solutions to conflict.
“Funded by the New York State Department of Criminal Justice Services in partnership with New York State Senator Bill Perkins Operation SNUG replicates the highly successful model conducted by CeaseFire Chicago. Focusing on Central Harlem, this program serves as one of ten throughout the state.”
