South East Consortium

http://www.secrec.org/

Created in 1981, the South East Consortium for Special Services, Inc. (SEC) is a not-for-profit community-based organization dedicated to providing therapeutic recreation programs and leisure-related services to children and adults with disabilities and special needs residing in our member municipalities in lower Westchester County, NY.  

The mission of the South East Consortium is to effectively develop and implement a balanced and comprehensive schedule of therapeutic recreation and leisure-related services that strive to meet the interests and needs of children and adults with disabilities and special needs.
We are able to do so by utilizing available community- based resources within the member municipalities and beyond. The South East Consortium is committed to delivering enriching, appropriate, safe and enjoyable programs and services under the supervision of qualified staff and dedicated volunteers. These activities are and cultural development of our participants.

Programs and services are offered year-round with a focus on after-school, evenings and weekend needs. While an emphasis is placed on providing for those individuals with developmental disabilities, this does not preclude or lessen our commitment to deliver services to others with special needs.

The South East Consortium serves as an extension of its local recreation programs and is mandated to provide valuable opportunities and experiences for those who, for whatever reason, are unable to participate in regular recreation programs.The majority of our programs are considered to be self-contained, but we try to provide modified-inclusive programs whenever possible and appropriate. If we cannot provide adequately for your child or family member, we will work closely with you to explore viable options so that their needs will be met.

All Stars Project - Development School for Youth

https://allstars.org/dsy/

Each year, the All Stars Project involves more than 20,000 young people in development activities that give them the opportunity to perform and to grow.

We have transformed from a grassroots, all volunteer-run effort into a national model for engaging poverty through Afterschool Development and community organizing.  ASP is headquartered in New York City on West 42nd Street in a 31,000-square-foot performing arts and development complex and in 2013 opened the Scott Flamm Center for Afterschool Development, a 9,000-square-foot performing arts and development center in Newark, NJ.  With two centers and operations in seven cities across the country, we bring inner-city youth together with business and cultural leaders, academics, police officers and other caring adults to create new kinds of relationships and environments where everyone grows.

Connecting kids to the world of work.

In the Development School for Youth (DSY), young people ages 16 to 21 learn to perform as professionals, and they partner with business leaders across the country who conduct development workshops and provide paid summer internships at their companies.

How it works.

Inner-city teenagers learn how to create a professional performance in partnership with corporate leaders.

Young people experience the business world through a series of rigorous, high-level workshops and trainings where they learn to perform as professionals.  Business leaders from top companies conduct workshops and provide training in leadership and business including resume-writing, networking, public speaking and dressing professionally.

Program graduates are then placed in six-week paid summer internships where they continue to develop their leadership and professional skills and connect to the world of success.

Blythedale Children's Hospital

https://www.blythedale.org/

With more than 120 years of experience, Blythedale is a nationally recognized leader in developing innovative, multidisciplinary inpatient programs. 

As one of only 19 pediatric specialty hospitals in the United States, Blythedale has the combined staff, expertise and resources – including the largest pediatric therapy department in New York State – to provide exceptional comprehensive care for medically complex children and support for their families. We were the first hospital in the United States to develop a post-NICU/PICU program and we are New York State’s only children’s hospital with its own K-12 public school district on site. In addition, we have received numerous awards and recognition for positive outcomes related to patient safety.

The Trust for Public Land

https://www.tpl.org/

The Trust for Public Land’s Vision and GIS service uses cutting-edge research and innovative mapping techniques to create parks, protect open space, and deliver community-driven conservation plans.

Greenprinting is our GIS-based service that helps communities prioritize their park and conservation goals. Using spatial analysis (GIS) in a transparent mapping and modeling process, a Greenprint delivers both a long-term vision for conservation and a concrete plan to protect the places most important to a community.  

Our greenway and trail services range from big-picture guidance to the nuts and bolts of planning: estimating construction and maintenance costs, determining trail locations through community input, fundraising consulting, and acquiring land and easements.  Our experts provide strategic analysis and planning of large landscapes. These GIS-based plans help communities build partnerships, develop policies, and secure funding for conservation.

The Trust for Public Land helps state and local governments design, pass, and implement legislation and ballot measures that create new public funds for parks and land conservation. We’ve helped pass more than 527 ballot measures—an 81 percent success—creating $68 billion in voter approved funding for parks, land conservation, and restoration. Every $1 invested in this program has generated more than $2,000 in new public funds.

The Trust for Public Land helps structure, negotiate, and complete land transactions that create parks, playgrounds, and protected natural areas. We buy land from willing landowners and then transfer it to public agencies, land trusts, or other groups for permanent protection. In some instances, we will protect land through conservation easements, which restrict development but permit traditional uses such as farming and ranching.

East End Hospice

https://www.eeh.org/

East End Hospice provides care and comfort for all terminally ill patients, their families and loved ones living on the North and South Forks of Long Island, including Brookhaven Township. Health care professionals and volunteers offer pain and symptom control as well as palliative care and social, emotional and spiritual support to patients and their loved ones in a comfortable and caring environment.

East End Hospice also seeks to promote awareness of the benefits of hospice care in our communities through educational and informational presentations to civic, fraternal and religious groups, professional organizations and educational institutions.
No one is ever denied care by East End Hospice because of inability to pay.

Our coordinated teams of seasoned health care professionals and volunteers are committed to meeting the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the patients and families who come to us for care. Supporting families through grief and bereavement is an essential component of East End Hospice, including a comprehensive children’s bereavement program and Camp Good Grief—our highly acclaimed day camp for children aged 4-16

SPLC - The Southern Poverty Law Center

https://www.splcenter.org/

The SPLC is the premier U.S. non-profit organization monitoring the activities of domestic hate groups and other extremists – including the Ku Klux Klan, the neo-Nazi movement, neo-Confederates, racist skinheads, black separatists, anti government militias, Christian Identity adherents and others.

Civil rights lawyers Morris Dees and Joseph Levin Jr. founded the SPLC in 1971 to ensure that the promise of the civil rights movement became a reality for all. Since then, we’ve won numerous landmark legal victories on behalf of the exploited, the powerless and the forgotten.

Our lawsuits have toppled institutional racism and stamped out remnants of Jim Crow segregation; destroyed some of the nation’s most violent white supremacist groups; and protected the civil rights of children, women, the disabled, immigrants and migrant workers, the LGBT community, prisoners, and many others who faced discrimination, abuse or exploitation.

Fighting Hate

We’re currently tracking more than 1,600 extremist groups operating across the country. We publish investigative reports, train law enforcement officers and share key intelligence, and offer expert analysis to the media and public.

Teaching Tolerance

Our Teaching Tolerance project combats prejudice among our nation’s youth while promoting equality, inclusiveness and equitable learning environments in the classroom. We produce an array of anti-bias resources that we distribute, free of charge, to educators across the country – award-winning classroom documentaries, lesson plans and curricula, Teaching Tolerance magazine, and more.

Seeking Justice

We’re standing up for the powerless, the exploited and other victims of discrimination and hate.  For more than four decades, we’ve won landmark cases that brought systemic reforms – toppling remnants of Jim Crow segregation and destroying violent white supremacist groups; shattering barriers to equality for women, vulnerable children, the LGBT community and the disabled; protecting migrant workers from abuse; ensuring the humane treatment of prisoners; reforming juvenile justice practices; and more.  Today, with a staff of 75 lawyers and advocates, we’re focused on impact litigation in these practice areas:  Children’s Rights, Economic Justice, Immigrant Justice, LGBT Rights, and Criminal Justice Reform .