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NEW YORK, NY, May 21 2021 – The Creative Center at University Settlement has been approved for a $20,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to support The Creative Center Training Institute for Artists and Administrators in Arts in Healthcare and Creative Aging. This virtual training, to be held throughout November 2021, will enable attendees from across the US to […]
Last week Barbara DiGangi, Director of Families Thriving at University Settlement, submitted testimony to the New York City Council’s Committee on Health and Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction. Read the full testimony below or click here. —- Testimony of University Settlement Before the New York City Council FY 2021 Joint Preliminary Budget Hearing: Committee on Health
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Yesterday Marilus Castellanos, Senior Program Director of Early Childhood Mental Health and Family Wellness at University Settlement, submitted testimony to the New York City Council’s Committee on Health and Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction. Read the full testimony below. *** Testimony of University Settlement Before the New York City Council FY 2021 Joint Preliminary Budget Hearing:
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The pharmacist has started doing pop-up vaccination events at senior affordable housing facilities, possibly illuminating a new way to reach vulnerable groups. In a city scrambling to vaccinate people against Covid-19 as quickly as possible, Ambar Keluskar faced a problem this month that seemed to defy logic: Mr. Keluskar, a pharmacist in Brooklyn, struggled
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The Creative Center, a program of University Settlement, offers daily, free-of-charge, art workshops over Zoom to people living with, or survivors of, cancer and their caregivers as an antidote to the isolation and fear that often accompanies a cancer diagnosis, which has become even more challenging during the pandemic. “Since 1994, The Creative Center has
Last week University Settlement submitted testimony to the New York City Council’s Committee on Aging for the joint preliminary budget hearing. Read the full testimony below. — FY 2021 Joint Preliminary Budget Hearing: Committee on Aging Council Member Margaret Chin, Chair of the Committee on Aging Presented by Bing Ji, Program Director of the Village
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The Creative Center at University Settlement Hosts Showcase featuring monologues written by people living with illness, read by notable performers New York, NY (March 12, 2021) – The Creative Center, a program of University Settlement, offers daily, free-of-charge, art workshops in visual, literary and performing arts to people living with cancer and other chronic illnesses as
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Yesterday, Veronica Wong, Advocacy Director at University Settlement, submitted testimony to the Committee on Contracts preliminary budget hearing, (held Jointly with the Committee on Finance and the Subcommittee on Capital Budget. Here’s what she had to say: —- Good afternoon, thank you for the time to speak. My name is Veronica Wong, and I’m the Advocacy Director for
Yesterday, Michele Rodriguez, Program Director of Older Adults at University Settlement, submitted testimony to the NYC Council hearing on COVID and Seniors: Protecting Older Adults in the Community. Here’s what she had to say: — February 17, 2021 Dear New York City Councilmembers of the Committee on Aging, Committee on Health, and Committee on Technology,
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Last month University Settlement’s Director for Advocacy Veronica Wong testified before the New York City Council, presenting our perspective on the City’s withdrawal from a previous commitment to cover more of nonprofits’ true operational costs. The city’s decision on what it refers to as the “indirect rate” will significantly impact University Settlement’s programs and services,
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