Recent Immigrants

Center for Family Life in Sunset Park/SCO Family of Services $25,000 Legal Aid Society
$50,000
A one-year grant, approved in 2011, for the Family Counseling Program, providing psychiatric and psychological services to low-income immigrants.

Julia Jean-Francois, LCSW, PhD, Co-Director
345 43rd Street
Brooklyn, NY 11232

A two-year grant of $100,000, approved in 2009, for part-time social worker in the Immigration Law Unit to counsel mentally ill immigrants and advocate for them in court through the lawyers.

Steven Banks, Attorney-in-Chief
199 Water Street
New York, NY 10038

Medicare Rights Center
 $50,000
Refugee and Immigrant Fund
 $70,000
A one-year grant, approved in 2010, for staffing a Spanish hotline so that Spanish-speaking elders and their caretakers can access Medicare counseling on questions relative to physical and mental health.

Joe Baker, President
520 8th Avenue, North Wing, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10018

 A two-year grant of $140,000, approved in 2010, for general operating support of the Fund, which offers psychological and legal support to asylum seekers.

Maria Blacque-Belair, Executive Director
32-13 37th Street
Astoria, NY 11103