Hartley House Inc

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2012 to Dec 31, 2012

Signed

Sep 3, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.0

Gross Receipts

$2,009,553

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

SOCIAL WORK SERVICESHOPE (Home Outreach Program for Elders) has been serving the Hells Kitchen community for 13 years, providing comprehensive case management and financial assistance for older adults. Traditionally serving clients 60 years and older, we have made a few exceptions for those in their late 50s due to extraordinary need. HOPE now offers three dedicated social workers who work with individuals to help identify their needs and meet their full potential in order to help stabilize them in the community. HOPE supervised two undergraduate students and one graduate student in 2012.Hartley House is accredited by the Social Security Administration (SSA) as an Organizational Representative Payee for HOPE clients, the basis of its Formal Money Management (FMM) component. HOPE has enrolled a total of 12 clients, with an additional two pending, as full representative payees since the inception of FMM. In 2012, HOPE managed nine clients as full representative payees. These clients have now significantly reduced their incidence of elder financial abuse, reduced their debt, prevented their monthly bills from ending up in arrears, and prevented possible evictiondelaying early institutionalization. In addition, 26 clients received informal money management services from assistance with bill payment to budgeting. These skills, along with the other services provided by our social workers, enable the seniors to remain in their homes longer as viable members of the community. By collaborating with other agencies, 15 of these clients received stipendiary assistance to help meet basic monthly needs. In general, 65%-75% of our clients receive money management services as representative payees, informally from HOPE or in collaboration with other agencies. HOPE served a total of 73 clients throughout 2012 with an average of 67 active clients at any given time. It obtained emergency grants for 28 clientsused for utilities, rental arrears, heavy duty cleaning, emergency home care, etc. Our Social Workers helped our clients work through difficult issues this year from the mandatory enrollment into a Managed Long Term Care (MLTC) plan to eviction lawsuits brought by landlords.

Activity 3

COMMUNITY EDUCATIONAdult Education - Through a combination of collaborative partnerships, the Adult Education services at Hartley House include three programs: the General Equivalency Diploma (GED) preparation program, El Centro de Educacin de Trabajadores, and ESL classes. These programs help adults realize their goals of improving their education, learning English or Spanish, developing computer skills, help new immigrants understand their rights or becoming a US citizen.The Adult General Equivalency Diploma (GED) preparation classes are led by two volunteers and they meet twice a week. As many as 15 students receive free instruction in subjects such as Math, Social Studies, English, and Science to help them earn their equivalency diplomas.El Centro de Educacin de Trabajadores (El Centro) is an independent organization partnering with and conducting its operations at Hartley House. El Centro provides assistance to recent immigrants to New York City. Evening classes are offered in English, Basic Computer skills, and preparation for the INS citizenship exam. With the addition of Spanish and Mandarin language classes, El Centro fosters a friendly community environment that promotes cross-cultural understanding and support. Workshops are offered on topics such as housing rights, access to health care, tax and immigration issues, and low-cost banking options. 2012 Enrollment was approximately 375 participants over three semesters (spring, summer and fall).Hartley House offers free space to the NYC Department of Education to host four daily English as a Second Language (ESL) classes for 75-100 adults between 9:00am 4:15pm. These programs support Hartley Houses educational mission to address inequities and foster self-sufficiency by helping individuals thrive and become empowered members of the community.Creative Arts A versatile and attentive Creative Arts Program is an essential part of Hartley Houses various programs and provides an integral service to the larger community. Its goal is to improve and enhance the physical, mental and emotional well-being of individuals of all ages by providing them with access to private individual art therapy sessions and/or group open studio workshops. We believe that art making is beneficial for everyone. In 2012, a total of 270 children, adults and seniors participated in our various offerings.Offering private art therapy sessions to our After School children and HOPE seniors, Creative Arts focused on the creative process of art making rather than learning art techniques. The process involved in artistic self-expression helps people to resolve conflicts and problems, develop interpersonal skills, manage behavior, reduce stress, increase self-esteem and self-awareness, and achieve insight. With the help of their mentors, 7 seniors and 19 youth strengthened their identities as artists and developed their visual communication/storytelling skills while dealing with their personal experiences and giving form to the many thoughts and feelings that they may not have had the words to express. Additionally 192 youth attended Learning Community art workshops during After School and/or Summer Camp, expanding their visual and kinesthetic learning skills through traditional art, crafts, digital art, costume design, prop design, and ceramics group classes. For the larger community, open studio workshops were made available. They provided a safe and supportive environment, allowing group members to experiment without the fear of failure. 19 adults and 34 seniors learned or refined their skills with ceramics and oil painting. 18 families came together to make art as parent and child groups working collaboratively on join projects. In collaboration with Covenant House, our Young Mothers Group for homeless teen moms utilized informal conversation and open-ended art directives to enhance their appreciation of the culture of Hartley House and one another through the shared art making process; 38 young mothers we

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EIN

13-1656652