United Bronx Parents Inc

“Conflict of interest policy: conflict of interest policy states no "presumption of guilt" is created by the mere existence of a relationship with outside firms. However, if employees have any influence on transations involving purchases, contracts, or leases, it is imperative that they disclose to an officer as soon as possible the existence of any actual or potential conflict of interest so that safeguards can be established to protect all parties.”

“Governing documents the organization does not make its governing documents and conflict of interest policy available to the general public. The financial statements are posted on the internet.”

“Form 990 is distributed to the board of directors prior to filing.”

“Compensation review: form 990 data on the highest paid employees in the south bronx is compiled for the last 3 years and then presented to the executive and board as reference in order to make comparisons.”

“Residential Drug Treatment for Women and their Children La Casita 1 Inaugurated in 1990 and currently boasting 20 years of uninterrupted 24-7 operations, La Casita is the Agency's first comprehensive, residential, drug treatment program for homeless women with children. La Casita (The "Little House") is a New York State Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse ("NYS OASAS") licensed residential drug treatment program for homeless, pregnant or parenting woman with up to three children ranging from infancy to the age of 9. The program offers substance abuse treatment services, culturally-appropriate congregate meals, educational/vocational evaluation and referral services, independent living skills training, parenting training, family counseling, recreational activities, a licensed on-site childcare program, medical and mental health management and a broad range of family-based case management intervention and support. The programs offer one and a half years of intensive treatment in residence and follows a modified therapeutic community model, including gradual progress through a level system in which participants earn privileges and take on increasing responsibility for their recovery, children and future independence. When families complete the residential component of the program, they are assisted in locating permanent housing, including La Casita 2 and La Casita 3: The Mix, reserved for families completing the program. The achievement of "live out status" is followed by a 6 to 9 month aftercare program of counseling and monitoring leading to graduation. Currently La Casita is one of the few therapeutic communities admitting women who are on methadone treatment. La Casita 1 is funded by both NYS OASAS and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. La Casita 3, located at the Agency's 1006 East 151st Street site is the Agency's second comprehensive, residential drug treatment program for homeless women with children. La Casita 3 is both licensed and funded by NYS OASAS.”

“Services for People Living with HIV/AIDS. Casita Esperanza Inaugurated in 1997 with a grant from The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development's ("HUD") Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS("HOPWA") program, Casita Esperanza (the "Little House of Hope") is a transitional housing program for chronically homeless persons with HIV/AIDS who are actively abusing alcohol or other drugs. The program provides both emergency and transitional housing for up to 39 single adult men and women. Services include case management, recovery readiness counseling, placement in harm reduction and substance abuse treatment programs, HIV education, survival skills and independent living skills training, health care education and coordination, recreational activities, hot meals, nutritional counseling, support groups and assistance obtaining primary care, entitlements, ongoing community-based supportive services and placement in permanent housing. Esperanza's primary goals are to stabilize residents' substance abuse and health status and train clients to live independently, lowering the risk of repeated instances of homelessness once housed independently. Casita peranza, one of NYC's few transitional programs for homeless people living with both HIV and substance abuse, is currently a primary referral site for non-profits in Puerto Rico assisting clients who wish to migrate to NYC seeking improved entitlements, drug treatment, housing and primary care. Effective January 1, 2014, the Organization began leasing this space to an affiliate, Promesa, Inc., who has taken over this program. HIV Case Management and HIV Prevention Education & Outreach HIV Case Management (Health Home) This program offers Medicaid-reimbursable, intensive case management services for persons living with HIV/AIDS and their partners and families. Services include an in-depth assessment of each client's needs and assistance in connecting with a range of quality services in the community, including primary medical care, emergency care, entitlements such as Social Security, food stamps, rental enhanced public assistance or HIV (HASA/AIDS Services Administration), a variety of transitional and permanent housing options, mental health services, substance abuse counseling and treatment services, permanency planning, other family support services, nutritional services, social; services, intensive HIV treatment educational and both hospital and home visits. HIV Prevention Education & Outreach (MSA) The MSA program is intended to provide HIV outreach and prevention education services as well as outreach and education to the community at large, targeting parents, local youth, injection drug users, other alcohol and other drug users, commercial sex workers, the elderly and other high risk persons. Participants are provided with a series of eight basic HIV education workshops, which include HIV risk reduction, the importance of early medical intervention, and information regarding how to live longer and healthier with HIV/AIDS. An advanced risk reduction workshop series provides prevention skills building for persons needing assistance negotiating condom use with sexual partners and learning harm reduction and relapse prevention techniques. Participants receive assistance in obtaining confidential HIV counseling and testing and a variety of placements in harm reduction, recovery readiness and substance abuse treatment programs upon request. The MSA program also provides intensive case management services to HIV positive individuals who do not have current Medicaid entitlements or who are not Medicaid eligible, including recent immigrants and parolees. HIV Related Supportive Services Women's Supportive Services (WSS) The WSS program provides a variety of support services for HIV positive women and their families, including crisis intervention, hospital visits, various targeted support groups, recreational activities (including weekly arts and crafts groups, beauty parlor”

“Day Care Services Day Care Center #1 Licensed by the NYC Department of Health and funded by the New York City Administration for Children's Services/Agency for Child Development ("ACS/ACD"), the Agency's Day Care Center #1 is a fully bilingual day care program offering services to 110 children. Services are free of charge to families on public assistance while working parents must pay a fee for the service based on their income in accordance with HRA/ACD requirements.”

“SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: LA CASITA 2 IS A PERMANENT, LOW-INCOME, SUPPORTIVE PERMANENT HOUSING PROGRAM FOR FORMERLY HOMELESS FAMILIES WHO HAVE COMPLETED LA CASITA 1 or 3 RESIDENTIAL DRUG TREATMENT PROGRAMS. THIS PROGRAM IS FUNDED BY U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT'S SHELTER PLUS CARE PROGRAM, WITH NYS OASAS AS THE PROGRAM SPONSOR. THE PROGRAM OFFERS RENTAL SUBSIDIES TO 12 APARTMENTS, WHICH INCLUDES APARTMENTS FOR LARGE FAMILIES. RESIDENTS ALSO PARTICIPATE IN LA CASITA'S AFTERCARE PROGRAM AND A VARIETY OF SUPPORTIVE SERVICES AT OBP. CRISIS INTERVENTION, FAMILY CASE MANAGEMENT AND OTHER SUPPORT SERVICES ARE AVAILABLE, ENSURING CONTINUED SOBRIETY, HOUSING STABILITY AND INCREASED INDEPENDENCE FOR ITS RESIDENTS. CASITA 3: THE MIX INAUGURATED IN AUGUST OF 2000, LA CASITA 3 THE MIX PROVIDES 6 ADDITIONAL APARTMENTS OF SUPPORTIVE, PERMANENT, LOW-INCOME HOUSING FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES WHO HAVE GRADUATED FROM OUR LA CASITA TREATMENT PROGRAM. THE PERMANENT HOUSING COMPONENT OF LA CASITA 3:THE MIX ALLOWED OBP TO EXPAND ITS HOUSING UNITS FROM 12 TO 18 APARTMENTS, THANKS TO GRANTS FROM SAMHSA'S CSAT, NYS OASAS AND NYS HHAP PROGRAMS. MEDICAL SERVICES: LA CASA DE SALUD, THE "LITTLE HOUSE OF HEALTH," IS UBP'S FIRST COMPREHENSIVE MEDICAL SERVICES PROGRAM. LICENSED ONDER ARTICLE 28 OF THE NYS PUBLIC HEALTH LAW, LCDS OFFERS PRIMARY HEALTH CARE TO INSURED COMMUNITY RESIDENTS AS WELL AS THE UNINSURED AND INDIGENT. THE CLINIC PROVIDES A PLETHORA OF MEDICAL SERVICES AND SUB-SPECIALTIES, INCLUDING ADULT MEDICAL CARE, PEDIATRICS, PSYCHOTHERAPY, PSYCHIATRY, SOCIAL WORK PODIATRY, PHYSICAL THERAPY, GYNECOLOGY, IMMUNOLOGY, HEPATOLOGY, FAMILY PLANNING, AMONG OTHER SERVICES. LCDS MEETS A GRAVE COMMUNITY NEED IN THE COMMUNITIES OF THE SOUTH BRONX, WHICH ONLY HAS ONE MAJOR MEDICAL PROVIDER, HHC'S LINCOLN HOSPITAL, TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY'S HEALTH CARE NEEDS. LASTLY, LCDS IS THE ONLY COMMUNITY CLINIC OFFERING PAIN MANAGEMENT, ACUPUNCTURE AND COMPREHENSIVE DENTAL SERVICES AND IS QUICKLY BECOMING A NEIGHBORHOOD MECCA FOR THOSE INFECTED WITH HEPATITIS C, CURRENTLY AN INCREASINGLY DAUNTING NEIGHBORHOOD SCOURGE. LASTLY, LCDS IS THE ONLY COMMUNITY CLINIC OPEN TO THE PUBLIC ON EVENINGS AND WEEKENDS. MENTAL HEALTH AND OUTPATIENT DRUG TREATMENT MRS. A'S DAY PROGRAM IN EXISTENCE SINCE 1992 AND BOTH LICENSED AND FUNDED BY NYS OASAS, MRS. A'S DAY PROGRAM IS A PART 822 MEDICALLY-SUPERVISED DAY TREATMENT PROGRAM FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS. SERVICES INCLUDE INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP COUNSELING, MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH EVALUATION, EDUCATIONAL/VOCATIONAL CONSULING, HIV EDUCATION, FAMILY GROUP COUNSELING, RECREATIONAL/ CULTURAL ACTIVITIES AND CASE MANAGEMENT SERVICES. THE PROGRAM OFFERS A FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE OF GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL SERVICES DESIGNED TO MEET INDIVIDUAL NEEDS. THE INTENSIVE PORTION OF THE PROGRAM LASTS FROM 6 TO 9 MONTHS AND IS FOLLOWED BY A 3 TO 6 MONTH PROGRAM OF AFTERCARE COUNSELING AND MONITORING LEADING TO GRADUATION. FOOD ASSISTANCE: CONGREGATE MEALS UBP OFFERS CONGREGATE MEALS PROGRAMS AT BOTH ITS DAY CARE CENTER #1 AND CASITA ESPERANZA SERVICE FACILITIES. THE NYS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH'S FOOD PROGRAM ACTING WITH SUPPORT FROM CORPORATE DONORS PROGRAM COVERS CONGREGATE BREAKFAST AND LUNCH FOR ALL CHILDREN AT UBP'S DAY CARE CENTER AND CASITA ESPERANZA RESIDENTS. HOMELESS HOT MEALS & EMERGENCY FOOD PANTRY PROGRAMS TO COMBAT HUNGER INCLUDE THE HOMELESS HOT MEALS PROGRAM, WHICH SERVES HOT LUNCHES TO 225 HOMELESS PEOPLE WHO "WEAR THEIR NEED" ON A DAILY BASIS. OUTREACH IS ALSO CONDUCTED BY PEER EDUCATORS FROM UBP'S PREVENTION PROGRAMS AS A MEANS OF ENGAGING THEM IN OTHER SERVICES OFFERED BY UBP, INCLUDING REFERRALS TO SHELTERS, RESIDENTIAL AND OUTPATIENT TREATMENT PROGRAMS, HARM REDUCTION PROGRAMS AND HIV PREVENTION SERVICES. ON A REGULAR BASIS, HIV PREVENTION EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS ARE PROVIDED FOR THOSE THAT WISH TO PARTICIPATE IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE MEAL, A LATE LUNCH, IS SERVED, WHICH CLIENTS REPORT IS OFTEN THE ONLY MEAL THAT THEY CONSUME ON THAT DAY. AN EMERGENCY”