US Featured on BRIC TV
Watch our Performance Project and Brooklyn Director discuss University Settlement’s rich history and upcoming SHARE! Series, featuring emerging local artists.
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ABC7 Talks to our ED about Proposed Cuts to Arts Funding
Few people know that arts funding has been diverted from community-arts programs for over 30 years. The result is that low-income communities and people of color have few opportunities to experience and participate in art that reflects them, their lives, and their cultures. Our executive director, Melissa Aase, explained how potential cuts to the National
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US Expands Behavioral Health Services for LES Children and Families
In a press conference on Monday, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. announced a $12 investment to help existing organizations specializing in family and youth development expand their capacity and develop innovative new services. University Settlement was honored with a $1.3 million grant through this investment from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s Criminal Justice
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US Awarded Grant by Manhattan DA
University Settlement is proud to announce that it has been awarded a 4 year, $1.3 million grant to provide behavioral health services to Lower East Side children and teens, and their families. This grant is funded through the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s Criminal Justice Investment Initiative (“CJII”). University Settlement was also awarded additional funds through two
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Right to Counsel Passes in NYC
For more than 30 years, University Settlement has paved the way in innovative programming to address housing insecurity and homelessness. In New York City, more than 70% of tenants do not have an attorney to represent them in Housing Court, while more than 99% of landlords do. That is, until now. Working as a member
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Court Navigators: Changing Lives & Making Headlines
Our life-changing Court Navigators program – part of our eviction prevention program, Project Home – was just featured on Fox 5 NY. More than 70 percent of low-income tenants in NYC go without lawyers in Housing Court, while nearly 99% of landlords have attorneys to represent them. University Settlement’s Court Navigators program addresses that gap
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Groundbreaking Childhood Mental Health Program in the News
University Settlement’s groundbreaking partnership with NYU Langone’s Center for Early Childhood Health and Development was recently featured in DNAinfo. The partnership, called ParentCorps, is integrated into early childhood centers – including many of ours – to provide parents with strategies to solve behavioral problems at home while simultaneously educating teachers to reinforce those strategies in
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Innovative Program with NYU to Bunk Seniors & Students
University Settlement and New York University are partnering together to launch a brand new program to address both the affordable housing crisis for college students and the rising population of lower-income older adults. As covered in The Guardian, the program will begin in fall of 2017 and will allow older adults with an extra room
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US Fights Eviction Injustice
Imagine facing off alone against a team of lawyers trying to evict you from your home in one of the most complicated legal systems in the world. That describes the unfair housing court system that we are battling to correct. When NYC landlords sue to evict tenants, they almost always have a lawyer; 7 out
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University Settlement to NYC Council: Return Rivington House to the Community
Testimony for the New York City Council Committee on Governmental Operations and Committee on Oversight and Investigations The Lifting of the Rivington House Deed Restrictions Kevin Tobar Pesantez, Senior Housing Advocate September 29, 2016 Good morning, my name is Kevin Tobar Pesantez. I’m a Senior Housing Advocate at University Settlement. We are America’s first social
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