The Supported Housing Program provides apartments in East New York for 12 individuals with severe and persistent mental illness, some of whom participate in Brooklyn Bureau programs. Clients occupy well-maintained, furnished two-bedroom apartments, paying an affordable share of the rent.
Transitional Living Community (TLC) is a temporary residential facility that provides homeless women suffering from serious mental illness as well as medical and social difficulties with social support and therapeutic services.
The Adolescent Employment and Education Program (AEEP) provides older adolescents diagnosed as seriously emotionally disturbed with an array of educational and vocational services. To prepare them for employment, staff provide remedial instruction; help them attain GEDs or high school diplomas; conduct vocational assessments and job-readiness training; and arrange transitional employment opportunities to facilitate job placement.
English Language Instruction Program
offers beginning and advanced level English language instruction at no fee for low-income parents in a focused, supportive environment.
Child Care Services
| Adult Services | Family Services | School-based Services
The Bureau operates three child care centers and a network of home-based child care providers in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, which serve infants and children through age 10. The centers play a dual role for predominantly low-income families. They enable children to advance their social and academic skills in a safe, supportive and stimulating environment, while allowing parents to fulfill work and other obligations knowing that their children are well cared for and safe.
The two most recent enhancements to the program (solely funded with private support) are an After-School Literacy Program and a Visual Arts Education Program. The latter, in collaboration with Studio in a School, provides five professional artists who deliver weekly instruction to 510 children, train staff, develop bi-annual center exhibitions, conduct parent workshops and take children on field trips to museums.
Family Services
| Adult Services | Child Care Services | School-based Services
Family Preservation
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Family Centers, located
in East New York and Bedford-Stuyvesant, work toward improving
family functioning, teaching parenting skills, and preventing
child abuse and neglect. More than 95% of the children the
centers serve annually are able to remain with their families.
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The Homemaker Program offers
support and training for parents in properly caring for their
children and managing their households.
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Project Jump Start is a home-based, early childhood development and family support program that prepares pre-school children for the intellectual, emotional and social rigors of school. It also helps parents dealing with a host of poverty-related difficulties develop the confidence and skills to become better parents and educational mentors to their children.
The Family-Centered Tutorial Program
is a privately funded program
that offers underachieving elementary and high school students
hour-long, twice-weekly tutoring sessions with volunteer tutors
recruited from high school, college, professional and retiree
populations. Parents are engaged in weekly Parent Empowerment
Groups that enhance their partnership in their children's education.
School-based Services
| Adult Services | Child Care Services | Family Services
The Gary Klinsky Children's Centers provide academically enriching after-school instruction — in effect, adding 50% more learning time — to elementary school students in East New York and Crown Heights. The Brooklyn Bureau manages sites at four schools serving children in kindergarten through 6th grade.
The Renaissance After-School Program ,
launched in the fall of 2000, is our first after-school program
for middle-school children. We offer academically oriented after-school
programming on a daily basis at MS 246 in East Flatbush. Together
with the Gary Klinsky Centers, over 900 children are served
annually. Both programs are supported in part by The After School
Corporation (TASC).
