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9 people are interested
Adult Basic Literacy Tutor at Women's Mental Health Shelter
ORGANIZATION: Lenox Hill Neighborhood House
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9 people are interested
Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, widely recognized as one of New York's premier human services providers, is a 125-year-old settlement house that provides an extensive array of effective and integrated services which significantly improve the lives of 15,000 people in need each year on the East Side of Manhattan. Our Women's Mental Health Shelter at the Park Avenue Armory on East 67th Street provides a temporary home to 80 homeless women age 45 and over who are living with mental illness. The Shelter is seeking a literacy volunteer to provide one-on-one and/or small group literacy tutoring to Shelter clients that includes reading, pronunciation and writing skills.
Volunteers should have experience teaching adult basis literacy and must be comfortable with a psychiatrically and medically vulnerable population.
The time commitment is Monday and Wednesday, 9:45am-10:45am for eight weeks.
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About Lenox Hill Neighborhood House
Location:
331 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021, US
Mission Statement
Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, widely recognized as one of New York's premier human services providers, is a 130-year-old settlement house that provides an extensive array of effective and integrated services--social, educational, legal, health, housing, mental health, nutritional and fitness--which significantly improve the lives of 15,000 people in need each year, ages 3 to 103, on the East Side of Manhattan. Our clients include older adults, homeless and formerly homeless adults, children and families, recent immigrants, disabled persons, adult learners and thousands more. For information on Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, please visit our website at www.lenoxhill.org or connect with us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/LenoxHillNeighborhoodHouse/.
Description
Lenox Hill Neighborhood House was founded in 1894 by the Alumnae Association of Normal College (now known as Hunter College of the City University of New York) as a free kindergarten for the children of indigent immigrants. Since then, we have remained at the forefront of community advocacy and social and educational change.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
643 Park AvenueNew York, NY 10065
DATE POSTED
April 15, 2019
SKILLS
- Literacy / Reading
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 18
- Monday and Wednesday, 9:45am-10:45am for eight weeks