NEWSLETTERSingle Stop is partnering with the Robin Hood Foundation through its Veterans Initiative to bring our ‘one-stop’, comprehensive, peer-based service to help veterans and their families in New York City. Robin Hood’s Veterans Initiative is dedicated to lifting veterans out of poverty by helping them get all the support services they need, such as housing, health care and jobs. Our innovative, cost-effective approach uses peers, veterans serving veterans, who are situated at two of our community-based partners and five strategically placed new locations. Through this initiative we help veterans and their families access public benefits, veteran’s benefits, jobs, housing, mental health, education, and other social services at one location.
After meeting with our site coordinator at the Mid-Manhattan Library, this veteran said that the support he received from Single Stop was his first glimmer of hope after two years of searching for help.
We are collaborating with Mission Continues, an organization that arranges six-month fellowships for post 9/11 veterans. The Mission Continues Fellows participate in Single Stop intensive training and utilize our unique Benefits Enrollment Network (BEN) to assess eligibility for benefits; and explain how one benefit or service might negatively impact another. The Fellows also make targeted referrals to other community-based providers, and will follow-up to make certain that benefits and services are received.
Open to all veterans regardless of service era or discharge status, this program is especially critical for those returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. It can be difficult and time-consuming for returning veterans and their families to sort through all the various benefits and access the resources and programs that they need to thrive. Our veterans services include the entire household, spouses, grandparents, children, and other family members to ensure that the whole family receives the critical services they need.
Veteran’s locations:
LIFT – The Bronx
2381 Belmont Avenue, Bronx, NY 10458
Contact: Rosa Carty
Email: rcarty@liftcommunities.org
Telephone: 718-733-3897
Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation
1406 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 10458
Contact: Cedric Smith
Email: csmith@restorationplaza.org
Telephone: 718-636-6941
Institute for Family Health
1879 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10035
Contact: Candice Diaz
Email: diazc@institute2000.org
Telephone: 212-423-4500×4547
New York Public Library – Mid-Manhattan Library
455 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10035
Contact: Carrie Anne Powell & Cassandra Charles
Email: carrieannepowell@nypl.org, cassandracharles@nypl.org
Telephone: 212-340-0861
Brooklyn Workforce1 Career Center
9 Bond Street, 5th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Contact: Cynthia Castillo
Email: cynthia_castillo@goodsheperds.org
Telephone: 347-296-8039
Bronx Workforce1 Career Center
400 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY 10458
Contact: Hayde Salcedo
Email: hayde.salcedo@cucs.org
Telephone: 718-960-2457
Queens Workforce1 Career Center
168-25 Jamaica Avenue, 2nd Floor, Jamaica, NY 11432
Contact: Elizabeth Ortiz
Email: elizabethortiz@childcenterny.org
Telephone: 718-577-2214
