2013 Annual Report - LSA Family Health Service

Lifting
Lives
in East
Harlem
Little Sisters of the Assumption
Family Health Service
2013 Annual Report
LSA FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE — The Little Sisters
With deep roots in the East Harlem community since 1958, LSA Family Health Service
has nurtured thousands of East Harlem families toward lives of health and stability. We
believe that every human being deserves to live with dignity and health, and that all
children deserve to begin life with all doors open to them, regardless of their family’s
education, background, status, religion or income level.
That’s why LSA’s door remains open to anyone in need.
OUR MISSION
LSA’s mission is to alleviate the suffering that undermines families living in poverty or
crisis through specialized health, human and social services so they can achieve the
strength and wellness they need to rise. We nurture strong relationships, health, and
stability so that our disadvantaged East Harlem neighbors can stay resilient in the face
of the harsh realities they face—like poverty, hunger, illness, crisis, domestic violence,
and language barriers—so they can reach higher and live better.
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SUPPORT
SPECIAL
NEEDS
PARENTING & CHILD
DEVELOPMENT
NUTRITION &
ADVOCACY
EDUCATION
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“How can you make
your life better
when you’re worried
about your child’s
next meal or are too
sick to work? How
can you get ahead if
you feel alone and
overwhelmed? Little
Sisters helps us plant
our feet more firmly
on the ground, they
help us feed our
children and make
sure we are well.
They lift us up so we
can begin a better
journey.” — LSA client
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2013 Annual Report
Lifting Lives in East Harlem
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Letter from the Board Chairperson
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Neighborhood Needs Profile4
Our Unwavering Commitment: Lifting Lives in East Harlem
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LSA Client Needs Profile6
Paving the Way to Pre-K8
Leading Families Out of Poverty and Crisis
10
Bringing Wellness Home12
LSA Core Programs Overview14
Moving Forward: New Partnerships, Collaborations, Research
16
New Alliances/New Initiatives18
Support Groups, Workshops, Clinics and Classes
20
Financial Report & Executive Summary
22
Volunteers and New Friends24
In the News26
Donors and Supporters27
Donate & Connect33
A Lasting Legacy: Helen Rehr’s Gift back flap
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LETTER FROM LSA’S BOARD CHAIRPERSON
Dear Friends,
It’s hard to believe that 10 years have passed since we opened our
doors to a new building in East Harlem, offering a warm and welcoming
community sanctuary for our clients. Looking back, I’m proud to say
that while our physical presence changed, the organization’s heart and commitment
to our mission has not.
With an average of 2,500 clients coming to LSA Family Health Service each year,
LSA has lifted over 30,000 lives in East Harlem over the past decade. LSA’s
outcomes consistently show the effectiveness of our programs, even as the essence
of our mission remains focused on the nurturing of relationships, fostering a sense
of supportive community and a commitment to building the strength and wellness
of the most vulnerable families.
These important values were demonstrated recently when two buildings on Park
Avenue and East 116th Street were leveled in a devastating and tragic gas explosion;
eight of our neighbors lost their lives and more than 150 were left displaced. Over
17 surviving families lost all they owned.
This happened in our community, only a few blocks from LSA, where scores of the
displaced families were our clients before the explosion. Many scores more have
become our clients since. Our nurses and advocacy staff rallied to the assistance
of our affected neighbors by being present, calming them, translating, and supplying
emergency clothing, food, toiletries, face masks, and baby supplies. LSA was asked
by the Mayor’s Fund to Advance NYC to be one of three nonprofits to engage in
the relief effort, relying on our longstanding roots in the community to reach out to
those in crisis. LSA’s dedicated staff was able to play this key role in the immediate
aftermath because of the deep relationship they and the Little Sisters have had
with the East Harlem community for over 55 years of service. That LSA can, in the
space of hours, step up to provide help in an emergency illustrates how we have
served as a community anchor for East Harlem residents over the years.
I’d like to thank Gary Carter for his five years of service as Executive
Director of LSA and his commitment to delivering key programming to
the community. We are now delighted to welcome Traci Lester, who
will be joining the agency in October 2014. She brings many years of experience
working with families and at-risk populations around the region. I have no doubt
that LSA will continue, steadfast and resolute, in its commitment to the East Harlem
community.
As supporters of LSA and its mission, you know well the wonderful work LSA does
every day, even in normal times—helping struggling families to overcome adversity
and gain a foothold from which they can begin a journey from poverty toward a
healthy and fulfilled life for themselves and their children. Together with everyone
at LSA who believes so strongly in this mission, I thank you for your loyal support
and constant encouragement.
Sincerely,
Ralph A. Siciliano, Esq.
Chairperson, Board of Directors
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In 2013, LSA’s
skilled and trained
professional staff met
the needs of 2667
clients through 3423
program enrollments.
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Living among the highest concentration of public housing in NYC and
in an ongoing arrival point for recent immigrants, East Harlem residents
suffer disproportionately from hunger, preventable illness, and poverty,
and truly need the services and caring community offered by LSA.
NEIGHBORHOOD
NEEDS PROFILE
In 2013, the challenges to helping
the families of East Harlem / El
Barrio remained daunting, as many
numbers and real-life stories offered
testimony to a further deterioration
of the quality of life and increase in
poverty for a significant proportion
of residents. Due in part to the longterm loss of income and fair– and
low-wage jobs, cuts to subsidies,
rising rents and other costs of living,
and new waves of immigrant arrivals,
residents of the neighborhood now
bear more burdens than ever.
East Harlem (part of Community
Board 11) maintains its longstanding
rank as the poorest neighborhood
in Manhattan, and one of the worst
in NYC for risk factors to the
welfare of children, including poor
economic conditions, preventable
illness, substandard housing, abuse,
neglect, quality of education and
environmental impacts on health.
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IN 2013, THESE BASELINE
NUMBERS DEFINED LIFE FOR
EAST HARLEM FAMILIES:
Our Unwavering Commitment:
Lifting Lives in East Harlem
31%
live in poverty
At Little Sisters, we change the course of the lives of parents and their young
children through a potent combination of services developed and evolved to
effectively address the impact of poverty and hardship on health, wellness and
stability.
45%
of children are born into poverty
7 of 1000
infants die each year, one of
the highest rates in NYC
18.9%
asthma rate—twice the national
and city averages
46%
receive income assistance
83%
of children qualify for
free school lunch
Highest
Head Start enrollment in Manhattan
26%
have no health insurance
LSA’S CORE
PROGRAMS:
Advocacy with Food
Pantry
Early Intervention
Education and Youth
Environmental Health
and Family Asthma
Family Support and
Preventive Services
Home Nursing
Parenting and Child
Development (HBS)
The Sharing Place
Thrift Store
*For full program
descriptions,
see Pages 14-15.
This year, LSA helped hundreds of families stay together in the face of crisis,
drug abuse, mental health issues and even domestic violence. We helped move
thousands from hunger and illness to stability and health. Every family who
enters through our door gets our full attention for as long as they need us. Every
individual is treated with dignity and respect, offered a safe haven, a supportive
community, and an array of programs to shore up their vulnerabilities and nurture
their strengths.
We embrace each family and evolve our programs to meet the needs of the
community as they are affected by the economy, legislation, immigration shifts,
rising housing costs, changing health threats, substandard living conditions,
unforeseen crises and more.
Most importantly, we understand that there’s no one solution to the multi-faceted
and deeply rooted problems and obstacles that have led families to experience
poverty and hardship. We offer a multi-service, holistic model of support and take
the time to find and apply real and lasting measures to improve the lives of each
child, parent and family.
After 55 years of service to East Harlem families, our commitment has only
deepened, while our staff has grown in skill and depth of experience with each
passing year.
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Other key facts about LSA’s clients include:
$15,600
96%
median client income*
of moms in Nursing’s Maternity Outreach program receive WIC
86%
10-20%
live under federal poverty threshold
speak primarily indigenous languages**
23%
46%
live in public housing
increase in visits to our Food Pantry since 2009
31%
138%
live doubled or tripled up in apartments
increase in seniors visiting our Food Pantry in 2013
20%
receive rent assistance
* Of households reporting
* *10% measured, 20% observed estimate of those
having little to no Spanish or English language skills
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LSA CLIENT NEEDS PROFILE
With gentrification on the rise,
especially in the form of new, luxury
buildings nudged into the existing
urban context, East Harlem’s poverty
and health statistics indicate areas
of improvement not reflective of the
reality for the core population. So, in
order to keep our finger on the pulse
of the needs of our community, LSA
has increasingly turned to information
gleaned from our own client base and
programs to see how neighborhood
residents are faring.
For example, after deep cuts to the
SNAP (food stamp) program in late
2013—even after some funding was
restored in early 2014—we saw a 15%
increase in visits to our Food Pantry
in the first half of 2014. Overall, 2013
visits to our Food Pantry rose 12%
over 2012.
This incidence of hunger among
families with young children offers
us a reliable barometer of the level
of poverty and hardship in the
neighborhood. This single number
speaks volumes about how East
Harlem families are faring.
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22%
of LSA’s
clients are
under the
age of 6.
Ana’s daughter, Kimberly,
was diagnosed with delays
and qualified to receive
treatment in LSA’s Early
Intervention program.
8%
more children and
9% more parents
were served by
our parenting and
child development
(HBS) program
than in 2012.
After receiving customized
therapies on-site at LSA
and at home, children like
Kimberly make progress
in many developmental
areas, from expanding their
vocabulary to showing a
greater ability to engage,
communicate and interact.
Other children make
strides in improving manual
dexterity and cognitive skills.
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Paving the Way to Pre-K
As New York City phases in a new and much-needed Universal Pre-K program,
LSA continues to train our focus on the youngest and most vulnerable in our
community, well before they even qualify to attend pre-K: toddlers and infants
under age 3. Because we know that, for children living in poverty or with
immigrant parents, attending Pre-K can often come too late to prevent delays.
Our years of experience, supported by rigorous internal and external research,
have shown us that a child’s development can be impacted from the first days
after birth. Poverty, hardship and weak or negative emotional bonds—a cocktail
known as toxic stress—can adversely affect children on a biological, genetic
level. Even after birth, the growth, development, and emotional wellbeing of a
child can be altered in ways that can have lasting effects.
Through our early childhood programs, LSA nurtures strong and positive parentchild relationships to lay a foundation for healthy emotional growth and a stable
family context. We foster strong communication, socialization and interactions to
build vocabulary, speech and age-appropriate development to keep at-risk babies
and toddlers on track or change the trajectory for those with mild delays.
Our skilled home visitors, social workers and classroom teachers emphasize daily
reading—now recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics—as well as
regular music and singing from the earliest ages. Many parents enrolled in our
programs have limited or no schooling, so we help children and parents acclimate
to the school environment in our classrooms. That way, when they begin Head Start
or Pre-K, they feel at ease and can focus on learning, rather than adapting to the
classroom setting and catching up.
For babies and toddlers with confirmed delays, LSA’s team of therapists and
trained staff from our Early Intervention program offer tailored therapies, case
management and social worker support, as needed, at home and on site.
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Our Food Pantry offers even
more than a reprieve from
hunger—it marks the beginning
of a journey forward.
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100%
of teen girls
enrolled in our
Mentoring Program
showed increased
self-esteem and
confidence.
99%
of children in LSA’s
Family Support and
Preventive Services
program were
kept out of foster
placement in 2013.
Leading Families Out of
Poverty and Crisis
One of the most troubling and debilitating aspects of poverty is its intractable nature:
once it brings a family down, it can take generations for them to lift themselves up again.
Piecemeal assistance breaks down the pride and dignity of a family and addresses only
isolated aspects of the obstacles or long-term havoc that devastating crises can wreak
on a family.
LSA’s responsive, multi-service, whole-family approach makes a difference—faster—for
more families.
Achieving financial fortitude, elevating education levels, and preventing an array of
illnesses prompted by poverty can involve many types of support over time, and LSA
helps families get to the starting line to begin their journey forward.
Critical to our efforts to break families free of what holds them back are three LSA programs.
The first, our Advocacy with Food Pantry program, serves as the portal through which
families experiencing hunger, severe poverty and crisis come to us. We assess each family’s
needs and determine how our programs can help. They leave knowing that they have food
and that someone will be there to help with their next steps.
When pain and debilitation comes from within the family—conflict, domestic abuse, mental
illness or substance abuse—poverty and crisis can lead to a rapid downward spiral.
That’s where a second LSA core program, Family Support and Preventive Services,
intervenes to foster healing and keep families together. Because united families can gather
strength and resources more readily than those in fragments, our team of counselors, social
workers, and case workers offer their compassion and skill to help families manage crises,
get the services they need and shore up their vulnerabilities through stronger relationships,
specialized treatments and parenting support.
Finally, at-risk youth represent the immediate future of every disadvantaged family. They
often bear the scars of hardship, but also have potentially promising futures before them.
Our Education and Youth programs can keep them on track through afterschool and
summer academic support services, a mentoring program for girls, Free Arts creative
programs, and services to prepare and increase their chances of pursuing an advanced
education and a professional path.
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Bringing Wellness Home
At LSA, we don’t choose between on-site care and at-home care. It’s both. Because LSA focuses on what works.
Since the 1890s, when the Little Sisters arrived from France and began caring for the poor and infirm in
East Harlem tenements, our home-visiting nurses have delivered life-saving and preventive care to tens of
thousands.
Today, our nurses are not the only LSA staff bringing wellness home in East Harlem; the majority of our
programs feature home visits. Because it’s more than a personal, meaningful way to care for our neighbors in
need. It’s effective.
Home visits allow us to deepen our work with and advocate for our clients and community because we can
understand and act upon the issues they face—whether it’s dealing with asthma-triggering mold in NYCHA
public housing, issuing ID’s that allow immigrants to function normally, rallying against SNAP cuts or supporting
the need for affordable housing. If home-delivered care or services can improve the progress of our on-site
work with families, we’re there:
· Our Environmental Health and Family Asthma program’s community health workers bring grassroots
approaches and hands-on interventions to mitigating asthma triggers for those living in sub-par building
conditions.
· In LSA’s parenting and child development program, HBS, skilled home visitors and social workers observe
and model positive parent-child interaction and communication at home to complement classroom-based
socialization, free play, music classes and structured activities.
· Our Early Intervention program sends occupational, speech, and physical therapists into the home so that
parent and child learning within the home context can strengthen therapies administered on site.
· LSA’s Family Support and Preventive Services sends social workers and case managers to visit clients at home,
where they can identify conflict and dysfunction, foster improved relationships, chart progress and support
positive family relationships and dynamics—all to augment on-site counseling and interventions.
Bringing services to the home not only allows us to observe and assess the progress and changing needs of our
clients and community—it allows us to build trusting, mutual relationships with families to help heal, draw them out
from the shadows of isolation, and build a supportive community with Little Sisters as their cornerstone.
8.2%
of women in
El Barrio get
late or no prenatal care.
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11%
of East Harlem newborns
suffer from low birth weight.
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LSA Family Health Service
Core Programs
ADVOCACY WITH FOOD
PANTRY program helps poor
families meet their immediate
need for food and address the
longer-term issues associated
with poverty. Our advocates
educate our clients about their
rights and empower them to
access needed services and
resources. We assist with
applications for public benefits,
such as food stamps and health
insurance, refer to LSA and nonLSA programs, offer immigration
advice and help tenants avoid
eviction and get needed
apartment repairs. Visitors to
our client-choice food pantry
receive fresh and healthy food
choices and nutrition education,
and meet with an advocate who
evaluates the fuller extent of
their needs.
A HOLISTIC
APPROACH TO
ACHIEVING
FAMILY
WELLNESS
AND
RESILIENCE
EARLY INTERVENTION
EDUCATION AND YOUTH
Each year, EI treats some 275
infants and toddlers (to age
3) who have been diagnosed
with developmental delays
or disabilities, with the goal
of helping them achieve their
full potential and maximize
daily living skills. Each child’s
evaluation is conducted by a
specialized team of certified
clinicians: a developmental
specialist, psychologist, social
worker, speech pathologist,
nurse and/or physical and
occupational therapist.
Treatment combines the
benefits of home and on-site
therapies. LSA’s EI program
offers special expertise in
serving indigenous Mexican
families with distinct cultural
family dynamics and languages.
helps youth underperforming
or failing in school improve
their academic performance
and skills through afterschool
Homework Help and Tutoring,
and express and develop their
creativity through arts workshops.
For girls in grades 7-9, we offer
a Girls’ Mentoring Program
with the goal of boosting selfesteem and academic progress
through positive example and
interaction with a professional
woman. Each girl has a dedicated
mentor with whom she engages
in cultural activities throughout
the year. We work with parents
to support each student’s
progress, guide them in navigating
the educational system and
connecting them with community
resources and programs.
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND FAMILY ASTHMA was established in response to the high rate of
asthma among children in East Harlem. Our community health workers help families improve housing conditions and
modify household living habits in order to raise the quality of indoor air, reduce asthma triggers and symptoms, and
promote positive health and well-being. Our home-visiting team is trained to assess each home environment, identify
unhealthful conditions, and teach safe, effective ways to address them. We advocate for tenant repairs that impact
health, in both public and private housing, and played a significant role in supporting community groups in pressuring
NYCHA to address mold and make timely repairs. The program was featured on DATELINE NBC’s investigation into
the link between poverty and asthma (see our website for more).
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THE SHARING PLACE
THRIFT STORE is the
FAMILY SUPPORT AND
PREVENTIVE SERVICES
works to strengthen fragile or
crisis-impacted families and
keep them safe and together.
Through caring, hands-on
interventions by our skilled
staff, we focus on building
strong, trusting relationships
through these effective program
components: in-home family
treatment, case management
advocacy, referrals for
specialized treatment, parenting
support and improvement of
daily life management skills. We
strive to help our families meet
their treatment goals through
services tailored to each family’s
specific needs. The program
consistently achieves the
highest grades each year for our
performance.
HOME NURSING,
a Certified Home Health
Agency (CHHA), provides
direct nursing care to up to
100 patients at a time, making
over 2500 home visits a year.
Care is provided to young
pregnant/postpartum mothers
and their infants, a specialty
focus of our work, as well
as general CHHA services
to acute and chronically ill
patients of all ages in their
own homes. The nurses
mutually engage with families,
providing skilled assessment,
intervention and monitoring.
The program offers a variety
of educational opportunities,
including parenting classes and
support groups to help foster
wellness and nurture strong
relationships.
PARENTING AND CHILD
DEVELOPMENT (Home-based
with Socialization) works with
East Harlem families whose young
children (to age three) are at risk
for developing delays. Through
home visits and on-site socialization
groups, we offer support to parents
facing the challenges of raising
their children. Our approach
emphasizes improving parentchild interactions and supporting
healthy development by focusing
on the following priorities: building
a secure attachment relationship,
strengthening the child’s language
and literacy skills, promoting
children’s self-regulation skills and
emotional development, supporting
exploration, play, and learning, and
connecting the family to needed
resources for themselves or their
children.
destination in East Harlem for
those in need of gently-used,
quality clothing (including
exclusive designer labels),
housewares, toys and books
at very low prices. It’s a warm,
welcoming place where
neighbors shop, meet and
socialize. They can build a
stronger sense of community for
all, and much-needed support
networks for newcomers
and long-time neighborhood
residents alike. The Sharing
Place gives our neighbors the
opportunity to shop with dignity,
even with a tight budget, while
also gaining awareness of other
programs at LSA. Proceeds
benefit LSA’s programs. Voted
Best Thrift Shop by NY Daily
News readers in 2012.
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Moving Forward:
Partnerships,
Collaborations & Research
LSA Family Health Service continually makes it
a priority to balance a strong clarity of focus on
our community and mission with the ability to
adapt and advance our work. That means finding
new and innovative ways to update and hone our
practice across programs, and one of our primary
approaches is to partner and collaborate with other
organizations to mutually bolster our strengths and
broaden our reach.
We evolve with the changing needs of our community so
that we can improve the lives and health of families in even
more effective ways. As a small agency, we recognize that our
partner institutions, agencies and community entities, both
large and small, have as much to offer us as we have to offer
them.
The agency works in tandem with a variety of partners, while
each program also reaches out to form alliances that can help
us all learn and pave the way for new approaches and even
better outcomes.
These pages present some of the partnerships and projects
currently in place. For more information, visit our website,
including our News & Events section for new alliances and
press throughout the year.
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GLOBAL HEALTH TRAINING PROGRAM
EAST HARLEM NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK
LSA’S Home Nursing program collaborated on a research project in 2013 with
two rising second-year Residents from The Arnhold Global Health Institute of the
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, which places students in a “third world”
situation with the mission of closing the gap in global health. The residents looked
at the third world aspects of living in East Harlem. Through our research we focused
on the realities of our families’ health status and helped to form future directions
for improvement. Findings included:
Anchoring Achievement in Mexican-American Communities
• Women in LSA’s Maternity Outreach program who received prenatal
and postpartum care through skilled nursing home visits are statistically
significantly more likely than those who had received just one service to have
full-term, non-low birthweight babies, despite having a markedly higher sociodemographic risk profile, and surpass the state goals of reducing prematurity.
• The increased prevalence of gestational diabetes in LSA’s population offers an
opportunity for interventions and education about type 2 diabetes, for which
these moms are at increased risk.
• The prevalence of pre-eclampsia in East Harlem compares to that of many
developing countries, which speaks broadly to how poverty affects the health
of a community, including the health of its unborn children.
Along with Union Settlement Association and The Boys Club of New York, LSA
has created the new East Harlem Neighborhood Network (EHNN), thanks to a
generous grant from the Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation.
Over the course of three years, the Network will address issues that have grown
in parallel with a significant increase in the number of Mexican families moving into
East Harlem, many of whom live in poverty.
This partnership of well-respected and effective East Harlem communitybased organizations will allow each agency to leverage expertise and staff from
specialized programs for even greater impact on families of Mexican descent,
including recent immigrants.
Many children in these families, even those US-born, quickly fall behind in school
and tend to drop out early, making it difficult for them to succeed. That’s why
one of the Network’s key goals is to expand and deepen support services that
encourage and enhance academic achievement among a population of Mexican
toddlers and children at high risk for developmental delays, poor academic
performance and teen pregnancy.
More specifically, the Network provides supportive educational services to
children of Mexican origin and descent, from birth through third grade, as well as
providing referral and wrap-around services to their families to support children’s
academic progress and achievement levels.
With the help of a new educational advocate, LSA’s role centers on tracking
outcomes, supporting transitions to Head Start and Pre-K, and helping parents
navigate the educational system and access employment networks.
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In Brief:
New Alliances / New Initiatives
THE MOUNT SINAI
HOSPITAL
LENOX HILL
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE
A new collaboration with the
Pediatric Residency program,
funded by the American Academy
of Pediatrics Heathy Active Living
Grant, focuses on the development
of a pilot program for obesity
reduction in children ages 0-5 in
El Barrio’s Hispanic community. A
new, bilingual nutritionist will lead a
support group and train LSA staff to
bring nutrition approaches to their
work in our parenting and child
development (HBS) program, and
our Food Pantry, Home Nursing and
Environmental Health and Family
Asthma programs, in particular.
A new referral service to our
Advocacy program offers
bi-weekly legal advice and
represention on housing issues,
including eviction and repair,
by an LHNH Legal Advocacy
attorney.
We’re also partnering with Mount
Sinai medical students and
pediatricians to assess our families’
knowledge of when and how to
access medical care through their
children’s health providers or the
emergency department. Thanks
to a CATCH grant, Improving
Community Understanding of
the Medical Home, LSA will also
develop educational materials to
assist literate families and those
with low or no literacy in 2014.
CUNY CITIZENSHIP NOW
Sponsored by our City Council
Member (and now Speaker)
Melissa Mark-Viverito’s office
in 2013, our participation in the
program has allowed us to host a
weekly immigration clinic offering
assistance with citizenship/
naturalization, staffed by an
attorney from CUNY Citizenship
Now!.
COOL CULTURE
In September 2013, LSA’s
early childhood programs
were welcomed into NYC’s
Cool Culture program so that
participating families can receive
passes for free entry into over 90
cultural institutions in NYC.
EAST HARLEM
EMERGENCY
PREPAREDNESS
COLLABORATIVE
In January of 2013, as a member
of the East Harlem Community
Health Council, LSA joined this
new initiative to address the lack of
support for East Harlem community
preparedness. The work of the
EHEPC led to a community forum,
a partnership with the Office of
Emergency Management, and after
the March 2014 gas explosion, a
report and community event to
discuss the effectiveness of the
emergency response and how
it might be improved for future
disasters.
NYC DEPARTMENT OF
YOUTH AND COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT (DYCD) /
NEW YORK IMMIGRATION
COALITION
LSA has become an outreach
provider for DYCD, working to
find and connect with DACAeligible youth (Deferred Action
for Childhood Arrivals). As part of
our effort, we share DACA-related
information, and refer candidates to
free legal and educational services
provided by our partner agencies,
such as the Legal Aid Society and
Union Settlement Association.
LINEAGE PROJECT
This new collaboration with
our Education and Youth Girls’
Mentoring program brought a 10week series of yoga classes to the
agency in tandem with wellness and
health discussions with Mt. Sinai
doctors for LSA teens.
NYC ACS CHILDREN’S
TRAUMA INSTITUTE / NYU
LANGONE MEDICAL
Since mid-2013, LSA’s Family
Support and Preventive Services
program has been part of a
collaboration with ACS and NYU
seeking to use trauma-related
knowledge to improve child welfare
practice and to help the child
welfare system meet its goals. The
project focuses on the impact
that parental trauma, PTSD and
depression have on parenting
and reducing the risk of child
maltreatment through screening,
assessment and treatment, and
training and technical assistance.
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Updates: Research & Collaborations
HUD/NYAM ASTHMA STUDY:
HEALTHY MOMS =
HEALTHY BABIES
LSA has a new, online campaign
to raise awareness of the issues
of maternal and newborn
health in disadvantaged urban
communities like East Harlem,
and to increase engagement
online with new audiences. We
launched the new campaign in
May 2013 with a Mother’s Day
Short Poem and Haiku Contest
in both Spanish and English.
The response was very positive,
and after a hiatus in 2014 due
to our focus on the East Harlem
Relief Effort after the March
gas explosion, the program will
return in 2015 with a Mother’s
Day photo contest online and via
Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
2013 marked the final year of the 3-year, HUD Healthy Homes-funded research into asthma interventions to mitigate
triggers in the indoor environment for children living in New York City public housing that LSA has been working on
with the New York Academy of Medicine’s (NYAM) Center for Evaluation and Applied Research. Findings will be
published in late 2014/early 2015 and will include comprehensive outcomes and a cost-benefit analysis that may assist
LSA in setting up new ways to deliver the program.
LSA’s Environmental Health and Family Asthma program team, as a long-time member of Manhattan Together, also
served as a consultant to its legal team (NRDC and NCLEJ) in the course of successfully settling a suit against the
New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) to have building repairs and mold/moisture conditions mitigated with
expedited response times. NYCHA’s settlement also included provisions to provide special accommodations under the
Americans with Disabilities Act for tenants suffering from asthma.
The team was featured on DATELINE NBC’s hour-long investigation into the link between poverty and asthma.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY RESEARCH PROJECT:
Our parenting and child development (HBS) program continues a partnership, funded through the Robin Hood
Foundation, which supports a focus on the program’s five main priorities. Based on the NYU reearch, the program has
increased the number of weekly socialization groups from once to twice weekly in order to strengthen the impact on
participating families.
NEW YORK CITY ASTHMA PARTNERSHIP:
Our involvement with the partnership’s Environment Committee and Steering Committee continued, and included the
development of a new campaign for 2014, Know Your Housing Rights, aimed at tenants suffering from asthma.
JUST FOOD / UNITED WAY / HPNAP:
Through the Local Produce Link program, now in its 5th year, LSA receives weekly donations of fresh vegetables
from J. Glebocki Farms of Goshen, in upstate New York, during the active season from late June through November.
This partnership allows us to offer fresh, nutritionally rich produce that our clients often can’t otherwise incorporate
into their diets. The program funds educational cooking demos, using these farm-fresh vegetables, by our in-house
Community Chef, Lucia Bravo.
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53%
increase in
symptom-free
days by children
enrolled in our
Family Asthma
Program and a
36% decrease
in trips to the
emergency room.
Support Groups, Workshops,
Clinics, Classes
“The HBS home visits have helped
me so much—they show me
different activities I can do with my
daughter and help me understand
her development. The visitors and
teachers answer all my questions. It’s
a big help for new mothers like me,
and for that I am very grateful.”
—Jessica Mendez, new mom
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72%
To augment our core program services,
build community and nurture wellness,
LSA’s staff and guest professionals offer
focused activities, events and support
groups in addition to what we bring to
clients on-site and at home. A critical
aspect of moving forward is staying
strong and stable. That means setting
aside the time to take care of oneself,
learn how to maintain a healthy lifestyle,
and take a proactive role in fostering
wellness for everyone in the family—
whether for first-time moms, growing
and developing toddlers or children
with asthma.
Breastfeeding Classes
Building Bridges to Hope
of students in
Education and
Youth’s Tutoring
program
improved or
maintained
their academic
performance
level.
Community CookShop Classes
Community Chef Cooking Demos
Housing Clinics
Environmental Health Community
Workshops
Immigration Legal Clinics
Nutrition Workshops - Bilingual
(Spanish)
Parenting Classes and Support Groups
Yoga
Yoga for Teen Girls
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OPERATING REVENUE
AMOUNT%
FOUNDATIONS
$1,129,26523%
GOVERNMENT
$1,015,765 20%
FEE FOR SERVICE AND OTHER INCOME
$837,040 17%
SPECIAL EVENTS
$541,670 11%
INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS
$478,804 10%
THRIFT STORE
$383,207 8%
$319,715 6%
$264,942 5%
$4,970,408 100%
INVESTMENT INCOME
IN-KIND SERVICES
TOTAL
20%
10%
8%
11%
6%
5%
23%
17%
OPERATING EXPENSES
AMOUNT%
PROGRAMS
$4,015,529 80%
MANAGEMENT & GENERAL OPERATING
$562,465 11%
FUNDRAISING
$475,388 9%
$5,053,382 100%
TOTAL
80%
9%
NET$(82,974)
11%
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2013 Financial Report & Executive Summary
The year 2013 launched important changes at LSA as we worked to meet the needs
of more clients than ever with 2667 in 3423 program enrollments. Cuts to SNAP
food stamps alone sparked an increase in visits to the Food Pantry in November
2013, and rising 15% as we entered 2014. Despite these challenges to our capacity
and resources, by December we had made measurable progress in strengthening
our financial foundation while successfully embarking on a leadership transition.
Our communications and development teams launched new strategies for the longterm expansion of our donor base and laid the groundwork for fundraising efforts
with creative ways to increase engagement and raise awareness of the agency with
new audiences. A new volunteer group was initiated, the Daisy Circle, to engage
new donors and spark donations, culminating in a successful April 2013 fundraising
luncheon event.
With the effects of the 2008 recession still being felt by our community, staff,
donors and agency, LSA pushed forward and expanded efforts to increase
revenues and reach out to new supporters while modernizing and reinvigorating our
infrastructure. Our annual benefit Gala, The Spirit of East Harlem, netted revenues
surpassing $500,000, almost $200,000 greater than garnered by the event in 2012.
LSA also developed our first online and social media campaign for 2013, Healthy
Moms=Healthy Babies, to raise awareness of maternal and newborn health and
mortality in East Harlem, and to engage new audiences. The campaign successfully
tripled visitors to our website, saw the most supporter and new audience
engagement of any effort to date, sparked a 20% increase in our social media
following and even brought in a modest number of first-time donors.
Also, as a result of a carefully considered process that reviewed and refocused
LSA’s programs and staff in 2012 to better differentiate the agency and respond to
the evolving needs of the community, LSA saved in excess of $200,000 in operating
costs in 2013. We continue to operate cost-effectively through lean operations.
Overall gains registered over the course of the year were instrumental in helping to
offset increased expenses, most of which were planned or anticipated.
Because the cost of operations continues to rise, and in light of investments in
infrastructure for 2014 already underway, the Board recognized that the need to
increase revenues persists. They took action by developing, approving and starting
the implementation of a bold initiative to do so. Key components of the effort
include:
1) Adding 10 Board members by the end of 2016 (with three installed in 2014);
2) Increasing the minimum Board member’s give/get requirement from $5,000
to $10,000;
3) Focusing on enhancing and expanding our individual major donor program,
with a new, strategic focus on planned giving.
As noted on pages 18 to 21, LSA engaged in a number of new and ongoing
partnerships and collaborations to expand our reach and impact, and enhance our
practice and knowledge base across programs.
Other changes played out on the staff front: Our community thrift store, The
Sharing Place, bid a fond farewell to its dedicated manager, Elsie Sanchez, of over
35 years, while welcoming the fresh enthusiasm and strong retail experience of new
manager Carlos Calderon, who has already generated increased 2014 revenues.
As Q4 began, the agency experienced a major change, as Gary S. Carter stepped
down as Executive Director, a position he had held for five years, leading the agency
as it staved off the harshest impacts of the fragile economy and strengthened
our systems for collecting data and reporting outcomes. Our Board of Directors
showed exceptional diligence in implementing a transition plan, culminating in the
recruitment of Traci Lester, former Executive Director of Reach Out and Read of
Greater New York, to become LSA’s next Executive Director.
We look forward with excitement to our new leadership joining us in October, the
fruits of our strategic efforts and a gradually improving donor environment in 2014.
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Volunteers and New Friends
Volunteers
We count on volunteers to bring their unique skills and healing kindness to
families to encourage growth and stability, improve health, and let them know
they aren’t alone.
Volunteers established a strong presence in 2013, with almost 50 serving as
tutors in our Homework Help and Academic Tutoring programs, as mentors
for teens in our Girls’ Mentoring program, or assisting in our Summer Reading
Academy. Another 40 compassionate and dedicated volunteers helped in our
early childhood programs, the Food Pantry, The Sharing Place Thrift Store,
and by offering critical administrative support around the agency. We also
benefited from the kind student volunteers from the Convent of the Sacred
Heart School, whose CASA program, now in its 7th year, offered a pottery
program to LSA children.
New Friends Committee
Once again our New Friends—young professional supporters—generously offered
their time and treasure to support LSA in 2013. They participated in three directservice activities with LSA children in February, May and October. Our May
Carnival transformed our 2nd floor into a ‘carnival’ where the children enjoyed
games, face painting, and even a visit from ‘Captain Jack Sparrow.’ Direct service
activities allow our New Friends to interact and connect with children enrolled in
our programs and offer them a special day to get away from the stresses of daily
life and engage in creative arts and crafts activities, holiday-related celebrations or
other events.
The New Friends held Spring and Fall fundraising events in 2013, fun after-hours
social gatherings at popular hotspots, where they introduced LSA to other young
professionals and friends, many of whom became new supporters, donors and
fundraisers for LSA. The New Friends socialize, network and help raise funds for
LSA’s programs.
Interested in volunteering or joining our New Friends? Contact Trish at
[email protected] or visit www.littlesistersfamily.org to fill out a Volunteer or
New Friends sign-up form with your interests, schedule and more.
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“When I think of my time
as an LSA volunteer, I’m
reminded of the positive
impact one organization
can have on its surrounding
community, as you do in
East Harlem. Thank you for
teaching me so much.”
— Emily, LSA Volunteer
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LSA IN THE NEWS
Our work fighting the impact of poverty
on health and well-being for the families
of East Harlem is relevant to many of
the issues in the public eye these days,
from immigration to asthma or the
importance of early intervention for
babies and young children. Our model
works, and we’re getting noticed.
Visit www.littlesistersfamily.org/News
to watch LSA on DATELINE NBC, NY1,
WPIX and Telemundo, or read about us
in The New York Times, The Wall Street
Journal, DNAinfo, The Observer, The
New York Daily News, Crain’s New
York, El Diario-La Prensa and more.
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With Gratitude
Every attempt has been made to include and correctly list the names of
all donors. If you find an error, please contact our development office.
BEQUESTS
Kings’ Carriage House
FOUNDATIONS
INSTITUTIONS
Byron Chandler
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
American Endowment Foundation
Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of NY
Elizabeth Gillespie Clark
Liberty Paper & Janitorial Supply Co.
Anonymous
Church of St. Thomas More
Rev. Norman C. Eddy
Massey Quick & Co. LLC
Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund
Church of the Heavenly Rest
Catherine Rita Martin
Merrill Lynch - The Payne Group
Charles A. Frueauff Foundation, Inc.
Church Pension Group
Helen Rehr
Mutual of America
Conway Family Foundation
Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes
Omega Ensemble
Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation
Portware
Doty Family Foundation
Convent of the Sacred Heart School, Greenwich CT
Prime Time Personnel Inc.
Elsie Lee Garthwaite Memorial Foundation
Convent of the Sacred Heart School, NYC
RX 2000 Inc D/B/A RX Center
Hettinger Foundation
S. Feldman Housewares, Inc.
Maternity & Early Childhood Foundation, Inc.
Convent of the Sacred Heart School, NYC, Parents Association
Selby Transportation Corp.
Mutual of America Foundation
TABB Group
New York Community Trust
Tait Weller & Baker, LLP
Duchesne Fund for Ministry, Society of the Sacred Heart
Sidney and Judith Kranes Charitable Trust
Food Bank for New York City
Bluff Point Associates
Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse
& Hirschtritt LLP
Soaring Apple Foundation
Horace Mann School
Catalyst Public Relations
Tarrytown Honda
The Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation
Certified Financial Group, Inc.
The Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corporation
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center
Cross-Fire & Security Co. Inc.
The Northern Trust Company
DDM Development and Services
TRUiST
Driscoll Foods
Waldorf Risk Solutions, LLC
Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP
The Hannah and Ryan Barry Memorial Foundation
Wealth Management Systems, Inc.
The Heckscher Foundation for Children
Notre Dame School of Manhattan
The Howard & Barbara Farkas Foundation, Inc.
P. S. 96/Common Cents New York, Inc.
The Lizzie & Jonathan M. Tisch Fund
SocialVest
The Kenneth and Hazel Roe Foundation, Inc.
St. Augustine’s Ladies Auxiliary
The Mayer & Morris Kaplan Family Foundation
St. Francis de Sales Church
The Pinkerton Foundation
St. Procopius Abbey
The Robin Hood Foundation
The Ireland-U.S. Council
The Sheldon and Marilyn Fireman Family Foundation, Inc.
The Mount Sinai Medical Center
J.McLaughlin
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
The Stonbely Family Foundation
CORPORATIONS
90th St. Pharmacy
Administrative Systems Inc.
Aite Group, LLC
Aplifi
Articulate Communications Inc.
Baker & Hostetler
Favour Royal
Gluck+
GNYHA Ventures
H.Y. Market Corp
Innovest Systems LLC
Insperity
J. J. Lally & Co.
The Carson Family Charitable Trust
The Clark Foundation
The Deerfield Partnership Foundation
The Theresa & Edward O’Toole Foundation
Dominican Sisters of Hope Ministry Trust
Isaac Newton Middle School/Common Cents New York, Inc.
Ladies of Charity of the Catholic Charities
New York Academy of Medicine
Union Settlement Association, Inc.
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INDIVIDUALS
Missy & George Boyd
Andrew Abranovic
Elena Boyd
Jean Ackerman
Kathleen Breiten
Jessica Alex
Patricia & Stephen Brennan
Michael Amendolare
Barbara Brenner & Robert Rosengard
Fatemeh Amirrezvani
Tyndale Brickey
Martha Andrade-Dousdebes
Ursula Brinkmann
Jane Andrews
Elvira Broniecki
Chasi Annexy
David Bronxmeyer
Anonymous
Ryan Brown
Guedy Arniella
Margaret & William S. Browne Jr.
Marilyn & Robert Atkinson
Susan & Jeffrey Bruno
Assunta Gaglione-Austin & Franklin Austin
Alice R. Buedden
Pamela & James Awad
Leslie Burgstahler
Therese Awad
Lauren Burke
Benjamin Bankson
Mary Burke
Pat & Tom Barry
Sally T. Butler
Terri & Tom Barry
Karen Byrnes
William Barry
Robert L. Cahill, Jr.
Kathy & Charles Beach
Enrico Calrog
Nancy & James Beha
Dorothy Calvani & Dava Weinstein
Cecily Belford
Cara A. Campbell
Paula & John Bendall
Barbara & Peter Canning
Veronica Bennett
Carol & Stephen Canter
Zachary Berliner
Paul Capetillo
Jan & Bob Billingsley
Julie & John Capetta
Hillary Billingsley
Patricia & Frank Cappelli
Susan Bilotta
Judith & Russell Carson
Elizabeth & Lawrence Blau
John Carter
Barbara J. Blecka
Claire & Robert Casale
Anne Board
Nicole Cassese
Sarah Bond
Diane Chachas
Linda & Richard Bonforte
Lola Chlupsa
David Boone
Lori & Scott Church
Jennifer Booze
Joseph Ciancaglini
Marco Boschiroli
Alex Clark
Neil E. Botwinoff
Paul Clarke
Jackson Bull
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Marjorie Clarkin
Rose Dimartino
Maida Galvez & Ali Mencin
Jill & Peter Hooper
Paula & William Lake
Barbara & John Coffey
Richard Donovan
Victoria Gammello
Russ Horowitz
Helen & James Lally
Ellen & Charles Collins
Maureen J. Doran
Sarah Gans
Ray Hubley
Kathryn Lamermayer Flaherty
Francis Comerford
Le-Ellen & George Doty
Elizabeth & Paul Garland
Anna Incoronato
Philip Landrigan
Paige & Drew Conner
Cathy & John Dougherty
Eugene Gaughan
Kate & Jason Irizarry
Laurie & Pierre Lapeyre
Tosha Connors
Mary L. Downing
Carole & David Gaunt
Mary Jacobson
Michael Larson
Gabe Conradi
Angela & David Duff
Cindy & Brian Gavin
Vickram Jain
Jennifer & Vincent Latino
Carol Cook
Carol & James Duffy
Janet Gaynor
Kris & Kevin Jandora
Loraine & Gary Lawrence
Marion Coolen
Edmund C. Duffy
Barbara & Joseph Geli
Bill Jaume
Byrd Leavell
Arlene Cope
Margaret Duffy
Valerie & John Geli
Meagan & Daniel Johnson
Let W. Lee
Lynn & Leo Corbett
Mary Duffy
John Gelini
Marie & Jim Johnston
Wendy D. Lee & Easton Ragsdale
Melanie A. Coronetz
Sylvia & Peter Dworkin
Peter Gerstein
Susan & Bobby Jones
Andrew Lehrer
John W. Corwin & Laurie Woods
Michelle Eacobacci
Mary Ann & Martin Gillan
Gregg Juhlin
Sr. Margaret Leonard, LSA
Arelia Cotton
Mildred & Charles Eisenhardt
Lesley Gliedman
Gerald Kahana
Cynthia Levy
Ruth Cox
Dorothy & Glen Elfers
Lori & Eric Goldberg
Marianne & Gary Kahn
Christopher Limbach
Margaret Crotty
Nicole & Alfred Eskandar
Jill Lloyd
Marie & John Evans
Mary Francina Golden
& Kenneth Handal
Janelle & Michael Kahn
Zach Dabah
Juli & Dan Karson
Sean Lombard
Marisa Dabice
Loretta Fahy
Maxine Golub
Justina & Hayes Kavanagh
Stacy & John Louizos
Jennie & James Daley
Rossella Fanelli
William Goodloe, Jr.
Dr. Mary Keane
Helen Lowe
Christina Daly
Francesca Fanelli
Gail & Norman Gordon
Alexandra Kelly
Arthur Lowenstein
Phyllis Darby
Courtney Favini
Sheila Gorman
Anne Kelly
Karen & Kevin Lucas
Kriti Dave
Rebecca & Paul Feuerstein
Trish Gough
Elizabeth Kelly
Dan Lundy
Dr. Steven B. David
Alice R. Finley
Laurence Greenberg & Martha Land
Frances Kelly
Kathleen & Clark Lydic
Jackelyn Day
Marilyn Fireman
Mary Greenebaum
Leonore M. Kelly
Nuria Lyles
Victoria M. De Barbieri
Nancy Fisher
Ann Grow
Lisa & Jim Kelly
Christine Mack
Laura & John De Boisblanc
Dan Fitzgerald
Michele Guerin
Maura & Michael Kelly
Maureen & Donald MacNeal
Ariel Dearie
Alice & Thomas Fleming
Leonora Halligan
Nancy Kelly
Natalia Mager
Rosemary Del Vecchio
Amy Fletcher
Theodora P. Hamell
Rosemary Kelly
Alice Maggin & Wayne Nelson
Philippe H. Delouvrier
Norma & Edmundo Flores
Maura Hanlon
Eva Kesner
Carrie & Tony Maglia
Nina DeMartini-Day
Genevieve Foley
Thomas Harvey & Cathleen Black
Kavita Khanna
Yinet Maldonado
Christie & Anthony DeNicola
Alfredo Fortuna
Winifred Heavy
Sean Killeen
Catherine & Paul Maloy
Barbara & Benjamin J. Denihan
Kate Fredlund
Jacob Heimer
Liz King & Paul Farrell
Monica & Temy Mancusi-Ungaro
Kateri & Scott DePetris
Colleen M. Frey
Zia Heller
Emily & Keith Kobyra
Betty & Lynn Mangum
Laura DeRose
Sharon & Tracy Fu
Enna Henriquez
Alice LaBrie
Lynn & Gene Manheim
Kristine & James DeRubertis
Elise & Neil Gabriele
Greg Herman
Joan Lacagnina
Nathalie Marcos
Christina & Jonathan Dever
Richard Gallagher
Anne D. Herrmann
Linda Lacchia & Elliott Schulman
Meg Mark
Tracey Dewart
Pamela & Timothy Gallivan
Sheila Higgins
Sr. Susanne Lachapelle, LSA
Elizabeth Marren
Victoria Hoehn
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Caroline & David Marren
Mark Moran
Yessenia Portillo
Ellen Marren
Daniela Morell
Jessica Post
Seane & Bernard Marren
Steven Motschwiller
Zulma A. Power
Luke & Elena Mayville
Mel & Marlies Mraz
Nella Pramberger
Christine McCann
Nancy Mullan
Sarah Primmer
Kathleen McCarthy
Tracey & Kyle Mumford
Eileen & Leslie Quick
Lynn McCluskey
Whitney Murphy
Emily Rafferty
Lynn & John McCormick
Karen & Michael Murphy
Noa Rafimayeri
John & Kay McEnroe
Alice & James Murtaugh
Susan Rahm
Kathleen McEntegart
Patricia & John Nallen
Clyde E. Rankin III
Andrea McInerney
Frances C. Nater
Patricia & Herbert Rauser
Kerry McInerney
William P. Nelson
Jennifer Reckrey
Maureen & John McInerney
Mary Novelly
Kathleen M. Reddington
Melissa & Robert McInerney
Bill Nussbaum
Ali Rezaizadeh
Nancy & Michael McInerney
Mary Belle O’Brien
Barbara Richert
Paula & Tom E. McInerney
Thea & David Obstler
Christine & Manny Tirado
Susan & Tom J. McInerney
Jane & Tony O’Connell
Ellen Ritchie
James McKenna
Rory O’Connor
Robin Rivera
Rae Anne McKenna
Betty & Luke O’Connor
John K. Robertson
Joan & John McLaughlin
Eugenie O’Hagan
Elizabeth & Brad Robins
Gerri & Paul McNamara
Melinda & David O’Halloran
Sue Ann & Robert Robinson
Anne W. McNulty
Rev. Daniel O’Hare, S. J.
David Rocco
Mary & Win Rutherfurd
Zeynep Semin
Iris McQuillan-Grace
Theresa Olcese
Carol Rocker
Judith Saffer
Sheri & Sandy Severino
Mary & Jerry McTeague
Mary Ellen Oldenburg
Rocco A. Roina
Paul Saltzmann
Laura & Gerald Shanley
Noreen McTeague
James Olson
Adam Roina
Noreen Sankbeil
Ellen Shaw
Patricia McTeague
Danielle Ompad
Samantha Roina
Grace & Glenn Sarno
Perry Elizabeth Sheffield
Patricia Meyer
Barbara O’Sullivan
Gabriel Romeu
Matthew Savage
April Shelton
Katie & Joe Minias
Amy & Kevin Owens
Rosanna Rosado
Jim Scala
Alethea K. Shepardson
Robert Minicucci
Constance Pedrani
Steven Rosandich
J. Michael & Kathleen Schell
Elizabeth & Joseph Shipley
Heather Mitchell & Darren Eskow
Patricia & John Pellegrini
Stephanie Ross
Kathryn Schlatter
Donna Siciliano & Stephen Haug
Jennifer Mitchell & Dave Szuchman
Karyn & Jim Pellow
Michaela Roth
Murray Schneider
Lea N. Siciliano
Marcus Mobley
Noreen & Martin Petraitis
Catherine Royce
Polly Schonfeld
Linda Jean & Robert Siciliano
Pat Monahan
Louise Petz
Robert Ruckh
Noah Schudl
Ralph A. Siciliano
Jacqueline Mondros
Nora Phillips
Peter R. Ruiz
Mark Schulte
Rose & Ralph Siciliano, Sr.
Diane Montelione
Claire Pizzurro
Margaret A. Ruley & David Lovett
Jacqueline Schuman
Rosemary Siciliano
Bette Mooney
Xander Point-Zolo
Patricia & David Rung
Eric Schwutz
Margot Silverman
Manuela Morales
June Pope
Jamie Russell
Maxine Seifert & Thomas Small
David N. Silvers, MD
& Joan Binstock
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Pam Silverstein & Trish Cosgrove
Sandra Talavera & Felipe Ventegeat
Ellen & Maribeth Welsh
Julia Sitarz
Betty Taller
Richard Wender
Francesca Slay
Dr. Jenny Tang & Dr. John Zhang
Beth & John Werwaiss
Anne Mieke Smeets
Sandra & Michael Tannenbaum
Sue Whang
Andrew Smikiss
Julia Tanner
Carolyn & William Wheatley
Brian J. Smith
Jephtha Tausig-Edwards, PhD
Susan & William Whelan
Dian & Robert Smith
Emilia & Randolph Taylor
Gabrielle & Robert Wile
Elizabeth Smith
Daniel Taylor
Sarah Woods
Nicholas Smith
Kim & William Thomas
Paul Wrapp
Preston Smith
Alice & George Tiedemann
Sunmoo Yoon
Rebecca Smith
Audra Tiner
Hugh Zaretsky
Margaret Smyth
Jonathan Tisch
Mei-Mei Zhao
Cynthia & Philip Sollecito
Todd Tocco
Margaret Zwiren
Joshua D. Sparrow
Lindsay Tomenson
Jo Anne B. Stack
Leslie & Walter Tomenson, Jr.
Patty & Jack Stack
Angela Tortorella
Carmen Stanley
Emma Trucks
John Sterling
Joseph G. Tucker
Russell Stern
Nora B. Tulchin
David Stern
Natalie Turtuno
Lisa Stern
Mark VanDermass
Laura Stern
Mike & Mary Vavroch
Peggy Stevens
Gray J. Velasquez
Kat Stevens
Virginia Veras
Alice Stock
Robin & Paul Vermylen
Joan & Neal Stolleman
Jacqueline Vincent
Christine & George Stonbely
Peggy Vishnupad
Peter Stonbely
Lucille Vita
Jonathan Stonbely
Timothy Vitale
Michael J. Stonbely
Cecilia & Mark Vonderheide
Tina & Joe Stonbely
Gerald VonDohlen
Simonne Stone
Joann & Jonathan Waldvogel
Greg Stott
Emily Wallace
Annabel & Peter Strife
Kathleen & Stratford Wallace
Msgr. Kevin Sullivan
Keith Wan
Cary Sun & Amy Rubusch
Eric Wang
Robert Swanton
Mary M. Welch
IN HONOR OF
Sr. Susanne Lachapelle,
Sr. Pat Hayes & Dorothy Calvani
Joyce Griffith
Sr. Margaret A. Leonard
Renate Belville & Allen Fischer
LSA Family Health Service Staff
Marilyn Johnson
LSA Nursing & Environmental Staff
Dorothy Calvani
Joe & Shelley Luff
Sam K. Alfstad
Mary McTeague, RN
Marge Duffy
Teri Mierswa
Marie & Thomas Mierswa
Heather Mitchell
Renee Eskow
Ellen & David Mitchell
Sister De Paul, RN
Marge Duffy
Sister De Sales, RN
Marge Duffy
Dr. Kurt W. Deuschle
Jeanne M. Deuschle
Bill Doyle
Anne & Jack Doyle
Stanley Doyle, Jr.
Maureen & David Egen
Mr. Frodo
Carol & Paul Foucault
Patrick Halligan
Patricia McTeague
Barbara Kiss Keeler
Margaret Kiss Magyar
Sr. Theresa Kelly
Sr. Donna Conroy
Assunta Gaglione-Austin
Cara Chambers
Elizabeth Murphy
Mary Helen Jordan
Tullah Kelman
Joyce Richardson
Pat Barry
Kathy & John Slattery
Christine Rickoff-Tirado
Diana Medina
Carmen Martinez
Norma & Edmundo Flores
Dr. Richard Bonforte
Phyllis Kossoff
Doris Cohen
Elsie Sanchez & Sharing Place Team
Therese Mierswa
Rose & Thomas McGrath
Rosemarie McGrath
Cecilia S. Vonderheide
Susan Katzke
Douglas Morse
Meredith & Ken Rosh
Lucille Millette
Elizabeth Weese
John Capetta
Douglas Karp
Joe Ciancaglini & Sacred Heart
Brenda Earl
Bernard J. Cooney
Jean & Bernie Cooney
IN MEMORY OF
Laura Cowan & LSA Staff
Gary Rissman
Petra Allende
Sandra Talavera & Felipe Ventegeat
Susan M. Deakins, MD
Dorothy Calvani
Albert Berti
Bette Kerr
Scott DePetris
Hon. & Mrs. William Lamb
Sr. Judy Cagney
The Clamage Family
Colodny, Fass, Talenfeld, Karlinsky, Abate & Webb, P.A.
Marjorie Rothenberg
Marge Duffy
Doris Konig
Patricia & Michael Ford
Patricia & Michael Hannon
Mary & Jerry McTeague
Sr. Susanne Lachapelle
Lilia Guzman
Linda Cassano
James McDonald
Dr. Florence Crawford
Dr. Louise Lisi &
Rev. Burton Froom
Alfred W. Murphy, MD
Elizabeth Murphy
Teresa O’Toole, RN
Marge Duffy
Mary Powers
Anne & Tom Whalen
Sr. Mary Patrick Powers
Eileen Barth
Cynthia Eagle Russett
Soaring Apple Foundation
Dr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Stack
Jo Anne B. Stack
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IN KIND
GAP
P. S. 6
MATCHING GRANTS
Abbocato Taverna
Gotham Dream Cars
Pajama Program
America’s Charities
Alice Buedden
Hartshorn Portraiture
Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center of New York
Altman Foundation
Amy Salinger
HBO
RedBulls
Bank of America Matching Gifts
Apollo Theater
Horace Mann School
Refresh Body
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
Ary Katchikan
Hunter College High School Flowers for Change Program
Remy Steinfink
JPMorgan Chase Foundation
Ricardo Steak House
J.McLaughlin
Macy’s Foundation
Riverdale Country School
Jeorgina Ruiz
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
John & Claudia Lachapelle
Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, Northeast Community Inc.
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding
Trust, Inc.
Judy & Michael Zalansky
Splash of Pink
New York Life
Just Food Inc.
Sr. Margaret McEntee
OppenheimerFunds
Katy Perry
St. Augustine Church
Kelley, Drye & Warren LLP
St. Francis de Sales Church
The Prudential Foundation Matching
Gifts Program
Kings’ Carriage House
St. Ignatius Loyola
UBS
Lauren Merkin
St. John’s Bread and Life
Convent of the Sacred Heart, CASA Program
Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Legal Advocacy Department
Tarte Cosmetics
Convent of the Sacred Heart, HEART Program
LIVE with Kelly & Michael
Convent of the Sacred Heart School, NYC
The Brenner Family
Mac Menamins Bar Hells Kitchen
EFSP - Emergency Food and Shelter Program
Convent of the Sacred Heart Upper School Campus Ministry
The Brookdale Foundation Group
Macmillan
HUD
The Brooke Jackman Foundation
Major League Soccer
The Buckley School
HPNAP - Hunger Prevention and Nutrition Assistance Program
Manhattan North Management
The Gabriele Family
Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City
Margaret Duffy
Materials for the Arts
The Legal Aid Society / Robin Hood Legal Services Initiative
New York City Administration for Children’s Services
Most Valuable Kids of Greater New York
The Linen Shop
New York City Council
Disney Worldwide
Museum of Modern Art
The Peninsula Hotel
Disney Worldwide Services, Inc.
New York Cares, Inc.
The Wile Family
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Dr. Alan Spizman
Nickelodeon
Today Show Charitable Foundation, Inc.
East Harlem Asthma Center of Excellence
Nightingale Food Enterprises
Toys R Us
Elizabeth King & Paul Farrell
Notre Dame School of Manhattan
Valerie & Arty Lake and Friends
Elizabeth Marren
NY Giants
WIC Program
TEFAP - The Emergency Food Assistance Program
Epiphany Church
NY Jets
Wile Events
United Way of New York City
Eve H. Wolf
NY Rangers
Yaling Ramirez
Food Bank for NYC
NY Yankees
Yves Durif @ The Carlyle
Franciscan Sisters of the Renewal
Original Penguin
Yvonne Souliere
Free Arts
Owens Family
Friends of LSA
P. S. 112
Baby Buggy
Barbara Richert
Blue Tree
Candle Bar
Catholic Charities
Cecilia Vonderheide
Church of the Heavenly Rest
Church Pension Group
Citizen
City Harvest Inc.
CUNY Citizenship Now!
David Chapman, PT
Denis & Carol Kelleher Foundation
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Asthma Initiative
The Apollo Theater
PUBLIC SUPPORT
EFAP - Emergency Food Assistance Program
New York City Department of Health/EIP
New York City Department of Youth and Community Development
We would like to extend a special
thanks to all those who generously
donated items throughout the year to
The Sharing Place Thrift Store, and in
doing so, supported both our programs
and our community.
A Lasting Legacy:
Helen Rehr’s Gift
LSA Family Health Service received a wonderful
legacy gift from the estate of Dr. Helen Rehr,
the former head of Social Work Services at
Mount Sinai Medical Center.
Helen knew LSA’s work and supported us over many years with regular annual
contributions. In fact, she started a Community Board at Mount Sinai to
give a voice to East Harlem consumers and organizations regarding access
to health care and the quality of care delivered to patients. As a professor
and leader at the School of Medicine, Department of Community Medicine,
Helen made sure that there was a strong referral service between LSA and
The Mount Sinai Hospital.
Recognized nationally and internationally as a towering figure in her field,
Dr. Rehr dedicated her career to professionalizing and advancing it as a
pivotal aspect of medical training and practice.
LSA Board member, Barbara Brenner, also a longtime Mount Sinai social work
practitioner and Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine, noted that
Dr. Rehr “kept her eye on the health of the community,” and remembered
her as “a visionary leader who advanced the field by being the first to apply
evidence to measure the outcomes of social work practice.”
We are honored to recognize Helen Rehr’s professional accomplishments and
extremely grateful to her for entrusting a major bequest to LSA to help us
serve the health and advocacy needs of East Harlem families.
How you can leave your legacy with LSA
Planning Your Legacy Gift
For over 55 years, Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service
and our supporters have partnered to create a place where the most
marginalized and vulnerable families of East Harlem can find help for
their children and themselves. Many generous friends, through financial
contributions, volunteering, or donation of goods and services, have
helped ensure that future generations of families living in poverty or
crisis in our neighborhood will be cared for by LSA.
A bequest is one of the easiest and most effective ways to perpetuate
your legacy and commitment to the vital mission of LSA Family Health
Service. A bequest in your will can be added as a codicil or created with
this simple statement:
“I give and bequeath the sum of $____________(or _______% of my residual
estate) to Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service, Inc.,
333 E115th Street, New York, NY, 10029, for its general purposes.”
If you or your attorney would like more information about planning
a legacy gift to LSA Family Health Service, contact our Board
Chairperson, Ralph Siciliano, at (212)508-6718 or [email protected].
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Make our mission your mission.
DONATE
Help struggling East Harlem families live healthy,
stable and economically promising lives by supporting
LSA Family Health Service’s programs:
www.littlesistersfamily.org
Contact: Norma Flores, [email protected]
or 646.672.5278
CONNECT AND SHARE
Facebook: Facebook.com/LSAFamilyHealthService
Twitter:
@LSA_EastHarlem
YouTube YouTube.com/LSAFHS
LinkedIn:
Little Sisters Family Health Service
Shop:www.socialvest.us/LittleSistersFamily
GET INVOLVED
To volunteer or join our New Friends group,
contact Trish Gough, Director of Volunteers,
[email protected] or 646.672.5200
Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service, Inc.
333 E. 115th St., New York, NY 10029
LSA is a CHARITY NAVIGATOR 4-STAR CHARITY
2013 LSA BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Board of Directors
Ralph A. Siciliano, Esq.
Chairperson
Scott DePetris
Vice Chairperson
Barbara Brenner, Dr. PH
Secretary
Assunta Gaglione-Austin
Patricia R. Barry
Richard J. Bonforte, MD
George H. Boyd III
Margaret Duffy
William A. Goodloe
James W. Johnston
Elizabeth King
Sr. Susanne Lachapelle
Wendy D. Lee
Sr. Margaret A. Leonard
Cynthia Levy
Stacy H. Louizos, Esq.
Nadia M. Martincic
Paula G. McInerney
Robert Swanton
Audra Tiner
Joseph G. Tucker
Cecilia S. Vonderheide
Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service, Inc.
333 E. 115th Street
New York, New York 10029
Founding Member
William J. Doyle
(1940-1993)
Donate. Volunteer. Care. www.littlesistersfamily.org
Executive Director
Gary S. Carter, LCSW
A CHARITY NAVIGATOR 4-STAR CHARITY
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Principal Photography: Chasi Annexy
Additional Photography: Alessandro Barthlow
Melina Gonzalez
Editorial Direction, Copy, Photography: Rosemary Siciliano
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