BronxWorks

Homeless prevention relocationstreet homelessness in the bronx has declined by 17% between 2020 and 2024* as a result of the efforts of the Bronxworks homeless prevention and relocation services programs. Bronxworks made 35,703 contacts with people experiencing street homelessness across the bronx. Bronxworks jerome avenue men's shelter, homeless outreach team, and safe haven programs placed 332 formerly street homeless individuals into permanent housing. For fiscal year 2024, Bronxworks family shelter staff successfully placed a total of 158 families from the jackson, sedgwick, and willow family residences, as well as the Bronxworks family hotels, into permanent housing. Additionally, 60 mothers completed the moms (mental health outreach for mothers) stress management course, an eight-week evidence-based group mental health intervention for female-identifying caregivers living in shelter. For fy 2024,the transform program, which provides intensive case management support to families who have moved out of shelter, served 111 families across the four family shelters jackson, willow, nelson residences, as well as our Bronxworks family hotels. The emergency needs for the homeless program helped 231 households remain stable while the rapid re-housing program assisted 148 people.

Children and youth programsbronxworks' children and youth department programs serve children and young people from 2.9 years to the age of twenty-four, as well as their parents or guardians and families. For children ages two to five, programs include the home instruction for parents of pre-school youngsters (hippy) program and two neighborhood-based early childhood learning centers (eclcs) for pre-school aged children. Afterschool programs for k-8th grade as well as high school, college retention and four cornerstone community centers located in nyc housing authority developments.our compass and sonyc after-school and summer camp programs that are based in schools or neighborhood centers specifically served 1439 young people in elementary and middle school, programs. Include the middle school transitions initiative (msti) assists 286 young people and 92 parents/caregivers transition from middle school to high school by offering workshops for participants and caregivers on the high school application and selection process. Older youth participate in the center for achieving future education (cafe) a college readiness program, for high school youth who attend selected bronx-based high schools as well as a college retention component for college students pursuing an associate or bachelor's degree. The care program served 416 high school and college students.bronxworks provides a range of academic enrichment and other services to young people at the jill chaifetz transfer school (jcts). Our organization serves as the lead community-based organization for the community schools programs for jcts and the two middle schools that comprise the webster campus, is 313 and is 339. We served a total of 574 students in our community school programs. Cornerstone community centers based in or near public housing complexes served school-aged youth and their parents or guardians. In fy 2024, Bronxworks was the lead organization for four cornerstones, serving 17,326 children, youth, and adult residents through afterschool programming for children, teens, adult activities, and services.in fy 2024, hippy served fifty parents with 58 children. The two eclcs enrolled a combined total of 96 pre-school children.

Homeless sheltersthe Bronxworks jerome avenue men's shelter, homeless outreach team, and safe haven programs provided temporary shelter to 2,069 people. Bronxworks-administered family residences provided temporary housing and on-site social services for 560 families with about 1,220 persons.

Community programs Bronxworks' community programs efforts included to health insurance enrollment and navigation services, protective and crime victim services for adults, emergency food assistance, benefits and entitlements assistance, and immigration or family support services. These programs reached residents from throughout the bronx.the health insurance enrollment and navigation services engaged 6,706 people. They enrolled 6,685 people without insurance into a health plan.the adult protective services (aps) program engaged 445 people. Crime victim assistance was offered to 137 people.selected Bronxworks locations distributed 53,835 bags of food that contained about 227,722 pounds of food that were used by vulnerable households to prepare about 366,419 meals throughout the year for an average of about 5,163 persons a month. The estimated monetary value of the bags was $2,691,750.the Bronxworks walk-in offices and access to benefits program offered benefits and entitlements assistance to 2,882 people, providing 816 consultations that led to the acquisition of public benefits worth $1,556,252.bronxworks enrolled 208 households for snap (food stamp) benefits with an annual value of $472,238, while selected sites served 670,723 meals to bronx residents, including seniors, children, young adults, and people with chronic health conditions. Bronxworks' immigration services helped 348 new americans from 31 countries retain legal residency status or become citizens. Our organization provided immigration assistance to 1,594 people who sought help with applications for citizenship, maintenance of legal residency status, esol, and civic classes.the Bronxworks family enrichment program served 120 families with 305 children through in-person visits to assess child safety and risk factors.health programstargeted prevention and supportive services and communities of color programs provided 153 hepatitis c and 158 hiv tests in the communities of the bronx. Harm reduction program teaches ways to reduce the harm of risky behaviors related to alcohol and substance use and helps participants living with hiv/aids learn to live a healthier lifestyle. The program served 59 clients and provided 3437 services. Case management health education program provided case management and health education services to hiv-positive individuals with an unsuppressed viral load and are not connected to services or stopped accessing services. Staff had 1,760 encounters with enrollees, leading to the provision of 1,884 types of service. The comprehensive adolescent pregnancy prevention (capp) program provided sexual risk education to 209 participants. The sexual risk avoidance education program provided sexual risk education to 105 participants. The Bronxworks youth food justice corps (yfjc) has engaged 45 youth in 2024-2025 yfjc activities. The efforts helped build a foundation for youth to learn about nutrition, food systems, and inequities within their neighborhoods. Youth also learned the important roles played by healthy eating, culinary skills, and advocacy to change food system-related inequities in their respective neighborhoods. The 2024-2025 yfjc service year activities included, youth assisting at the Bronxworks farm stands twice a week, creating social media resource and nutrition education posts, assisting with cooking demonstrations, and teen battle chef (tbc) healthy cooking education sessions. Tbc sessions occurred at the south bronx preparatory school at 360 east 145th street, mott haven academy charter school, 170 brown place. A spring session is also scheduled for the sonyc youth program at Bronxworks carolyn mclaughlin community center (cmcc) at 1130 grand concourse near yankee stadium. All sites were provided programming for middle school-aged youth. The youth were ages 14 to 21. They came from neighborhoods in bronx cds 1 and 4, including melrose and mott haven in bronx cd 1 and the concourse and morrisania in bronx cd 4. They were primarily of latin or african american descent. They were recruited from the bronxworks-sponsored summer youth employment program (syep), opportunity youth program, and after-school programs at the cmcc, mott haven academy, and south bronx preparatory school. The snap nutrition education and obesity prevention program (snap-ed ny) conducted 355 nutrition education workshops with adults, older adults, and youth (6-17 years old), engaging 3,915 participants. A total of 35 nutrition and cooking demonstrations were completed at the mott haven farm stand reaching 689 participants all of which received health bucks as incentives. The snap-ed healthy retail program completed 59 store visits to promote healthy nutrition messaging through focused and custom designed posters and shelf talkers given to 10 different stores throughout the bronx. The snap-ed team also participated in 19 different community events (tabling events) and reached 188 participants conducting cooking demonstrations with the goal of getting people to taste healthy easy to make recipes. A total of 21 partnership meetings were held or attended by staff to build relationships, rapport, and sustainability of nutrition and food access efforts in the bronx community. Care coordination program served 279 members. A total of 450 patient care visits were made. Community health advocate and health literacy programs engaged over 628 people. Services for the elderly Bronxworks enrolled 3,210 people in eight older adult centers and social club for older adults.social services were provided for 152 seniors at the naturally occurring retirement communities at river park towers and woodstock terrace. Specialized social services were provided to 1,648 seniors, including housing assistance or home improvement, geriatric mental health.supportive housingsupportive housing services were provided to 347 households, which included 95 formerly homeless individuals and families at cooper gardens in bronx community district (cd) 6, 50 formerly homeless households at park haven in bronx cd 1, 120 formerly homeless individuals at the brook in bronx cd 1, and 82 formerly homeless households at bronx point in bronx cd 4.bronxworks is the social services provider for the brook, cooper gardens, park haven, and bronx point, where supportive housing services are provided for 527 previously homeless individuals. The homebase program served over 3,500 households with about 7,000 individuals. 95% of the individuals have successfully remained in their homes or found another stable place to live. The hud scatter site program served 47 people. Workforce development for fy 2024, the workforce development department provided targeted services to 10,433 people. The populations served included young adults, adults including nycha residents, hpd section 8 voucher holders, non-custodial fathers, and residents of three pact/rad projects. Participants enrolled in workforce development programs received comprehensive job-readiness instruction, sector-based skills trainings, adult basic education instruction, financial literacy counseling, free income tax services and access to benefits assistance.workforce programming was provided to 191 youth including many who were previously disconnected from education, skills training, or employment opportunities. In addition, 1,305 youth received project-based learning or were placed into short-term internships during the summer.for the 2024 tax season, the workforce development department free tax preparation services prepared 7,819 returns resulting in refunds totaling $7,661,795, $2,959,234 in earned income tax credits (eitc) and $2,215,270 in child tax credits (ctc).