Abraham House Inc

Filing Period

Sep 1, 2010 to Aug 31, 2011

Signed

May 22, 2012

Return Version

2010v3.4

Gross Receipts

$1,084,648

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

The after school and summer program (asp) offers a safe haven, academic support, counseling, and youth development curriculum to help children move ahead to the next academic grade, graduate from high school, and stay free of juvenile delinquency and criminal activity. Started in 1999, the after school and summer program was initially geared to younger at-risk youth - specifically children of the incarcerated as well as those youth experiencing other societal at-risk factors. The asp's goal and priority is to provide quality after-school programs as well as case-management and intervention services, to youth and families residing in the mott haven neighborhood of the bronx which for many years has been plagued with various social problems, particularly poverty and crime. During the academic year, 35 students in grads prek - 5th grade were provided with academic support, sports instruction, and counseling. In grades 6 - 12, 40 students received support during the academic year. In addition, 40 students were offered academic support, and sports instruction during the summer program.

Activity 3

The family pastoral center (fpc) serves as a place of community and strength, where families affected by incarceration and other social factors, can find hope, solace, friendship, and support. The fpc provides case management, counseling, advocacy, and referrals to essential services, in order to help families deal with crises and ongoing challenges. The fpc offers religious services and education, a hot meal on saturdays, a food pantry, and a clothing bank.an initiative had been developed and implemented to work with the teens and this group is called the youth volunteer program. There are two groups of children: the pre-teen and teens' group. There are three members in the pre-teen group and seven members in the teen's group. Our group of teens both from the after school program (asp) and family and pastoral care (fpc) are used every saturday to assist the staff in different tasks such as making copies, displaying informative boards, taking pictures, organizing activities for little ones, and giving out items from the food pantry. The abraham house prison ministry keeps running every wednesday at riker's island for its second year. Currently, deacon john powers voluntarily shares the gospel's readings with inmates at gmdc and our social worker also attends once a month.this past year we celebrated ten first communions, fifteen baptisms, and seven teens received the sacrament of confirmation with the blessings of bishop josue iriondo and our revs. Fr. Houle, and fr. Peter raphael. Mass attendance throughout the year totaled to 8,600 individuals. Our spiritual sharing group-who consist of the reflection of the gospel-have met regularly twice a month on saturdays. Our members from the three programs at abraham house have had the opportunity to learn and to reflect from the bible readings and have requested to keep this group. Abraham house also hosts members of the program and community every first thursday of the month for one hour to pray and praise before the sacred heart of jesus. We had our annual spirtual retreat, on november 7th, 2010 that took place at mariandale center and many of our members of our three programs attended with a total of 100 persons. There is such wonderful cooperation among the staff of the pastoral center and a wonderful spirit of working together. We are blessed with dedicated teachers, co-workers and a staff that really wants to be there for others. This is a real "plus" for all of abraham house.

Filer

EIN

13-3721924