6025 6th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11220
(718) 630-7171
Fax: (718) 630-7295
Director: Kathleen A. Hopkins
Email: Khopkins@lmcmc.com
The Department of Community-Based Programs has a twenty-seven year history of providing educational and supportive services to community residents and their families. The work of the Department is grounded in the philosophy that is the foundation of Lutheran HealthCare's holistic orientation to community health - that health depends upon such factors as an individual's psychosocial, familial, economic, housing, educational, and employment status. The Department is committed to affirming each family's cultural, ethnic and linguistic identities. As such, our work is deeply routed in community social work practice, ensuring that programs are always designed to be responsive to evolving family and community issues in the context of a diverse, multicultural society.
The department's expertise incorporates the following areas:
- Designing and developing culturally competent programs which meet the needs of the diverse populations, particularly new immigrant families, in our community
- Developing strong collaborative relationships with community partners to create integrated service delivery systems.
- Utilizing a model of community building, that promotes participatory management and supports relationship and community involvement at all levels.
- Recognizing that families are resources to their own members, to other families, to programs and to communities.
- Advocating with families for services and systems that are fair, responsive and accountable to the families served.
Work with families to mobilize formal and informal resources to support family development.
6025 6th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11220
(718) 630-7186
Fax: (718) 630-7295
Email: khopkins@lmcmc.com
The Family Support Center, the department's newest initiative, brings together 7 community programs together under one roof to provide a fully integrated "one-stop shopping" hub for family strengthening services in southwest Brooklyn. The services offered at the Family Support Center include:
- Family Support Services: Case management services, including psychoeducational workshops, linkage to community resources, and advocacy;
- Adult and Family Education: Free classes in ESOL, basic education, family literacy, GED preparation, and computer classes;
- WIC: Nutrition education and food supplements provided for pregnant and postpartum women and children under age 5;
- Healthy Connections: Individual, group, and family counseling for individuals and families affected by trauma, grief, and loss;
- Reach Out and Read: Early childhood literacy programming and volunteer opportunities;
AmeriCorps/VISTA: Community involvement and leadership development provided through the Sunset Park Community HealthCorps.
Director: Stacie Evans
(718) 630-7150
Fax: (718) 630-7816
Email: Sevans@lmcmc.com
The Adult and Family Education Program, established in 1976, is centered on the belief that all adults deserve access to free, high-quality basic educational services to help them achieve their goals in life. To this end, we offer classes in English for Speakers of Others Languages (ESOL) Basic Education (BE), preparation for the high school equivalence diploma (GED), and Computer Technology classes. Morning, afternoon and evening classes are held at our main site at the Family Support Center as well as at other community sites in Sunset Park and Bay Ridge, including churches, schools, and senior citizen and community centers. The Adult and Family Education Program serves 700 students annually.
Director: Suzann Jacquez-Sanchez
(718) 630-7186
Fax: (718) 630-
Email: Sjacquez@lmcmc.com
This program is the core of the Family Support Center, assisting participants in accessing the full range of services available to them both within the center and in the community. Program staff provide case management services including short-term counseling, crisis intervention, information and referrals to community resources, assistance with enrollment to public benefits, advocacy, advocacy, workshops, and support groups.
Director: Sarah Russ
(718) 630-7186
Fax: (718) 630-7190
Email: Sruss@lmcmc.com
Healthy Connections was founded after the events of 9/11 to assist individuals and families in coping with issues of trauma, violence, grief, and loss. The program provides individual, group, and family therapy and specializes in working with children and families.
Director: Heidi Sabers
(718) 630-7175
Fax: (718) 630-7295
Email: Hsabers@lmcmc.com
The Reach Out and Read program is a pediatric literacy program in which pediatric providers, educators, volunteers, and parents work together to support language and literacy skill development for children ages 6 months to 5 years of age. Children receive a new developmentally appropriate book during each well-child visit to our family health centers. Parents receive educational information about children and literacy. Story-time volunteers read to children in the waiting rooms, helping to create a literacy-rich environment in each health center. Volunteers to this program are always welcome.
Director: Gayathri Chandran
(718) 630-7164
Fax: (718) 630-7295
Email: Gchandran@lmcmc.com
The Community HealthCorps is an AmeriCorps program sponsored by the New York State Commission on National and Community Service and the National Association of Community Health Centers. Through AmeriCorps, the domestic Peace Corps, a team of 20 full-time national service volunteers joins Lutheran Family Health Centers and dedicate themselves to a year of serving residents of Sunset Park and other southwest Brooklyn neighborhoods in placements throughout the Family Health Center programs. In exchange for their service, members receive extensive training, a living allowance, an educational award, medical insurance and, if eligible, child care.
Director: Marisol Alvarado
(718) 765-1682
Fax: (718)
Email: Malvarado@lmcmc.com / spevenstart@hotmail.com
This program is a Family Literacy Partnership between Lutheran Medical Center and District 20 of the NYC Department of Education. The program provides services for 40 families who live in the catchment area of Public School 314. While parents participate in ESOL class and parenting support classes, their preschool children attend the early childhood education class and encounter literacy in a wide variety of meaningful and enjoyable activities.
230 60th Street
Brooklyn NY 11220
Telephone 718-439-5600
Director: Migdalia Morcilio, CSW
Email: Mmorcilio@lmcmc.com
The Center for Child Development is a family-centered program providing developmental services for children from birth to 12 years. Early Intervention and Pediatric Rehabilitation services are provided by a multidisciplinary team, working closely with families. Services include Child Development Screenings and Evaluations; Audiology Assessments for Children and Adults; Physical Therapy; Occupational Therapy; Speech and Language Therapy; Social Work; Special Instruction; Service Coordination; Parent Support and Workshops on Child Development Issues.
Lutheran Family Health Centers sponsors full-day, year-round early childhood centers for children, ages 6 months to 12 years. In a supportive, stimulating and enriching environment, teachers and caregivers work in partnership with families and community collaborators to support children to reach their social, emotional and academic potential. The centers are licensed by the Department of Health and funded by the Administration for Children's Services and the Department of Education. Participating families meet income eligibility guidelines.
Center locations:
Children 6 months to 3 years
230 60th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11220
Telephone 718-439-0450
Director: Ann Guo
Children 3 years to 5 years
4917 4th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11220
Telephone 718-492-9678
Director: Elena Jaffe
Children 6 months to 12 years
343 Warren Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Telephone 718-237-9578
Director: Gloria Martinez
4520 4th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11220
(718) 492-9370
Director: Maria Cardona
Sunset Park Senior Center provides hot nutritious meals and recreational activities to over 100 older adults, Mondays through Fridays, from 8:00 am to 4 pm, at the center's main site located at 4520 4th Avenue. An additional 175 older adults receive services through the center's satellite programs located in the Windsor Terrace, Sunset Park, and Midwood communities. Older adults who attend the senior center are also offered the opportunity to participate in educational and recreational activities such as English for Speakers of Other Languages, immigration counseling, yoga, entitlement counseling, health education, monthly trips, and arts and crafts. The Senior Center also delivers meals to 160 older adults who are unable to leave their home due to advancing age or illness. This service is supplemented on weekends through the city Meals-On-Wheels Program, through which 450 older residents of Community Boards 6, 7, and 10 receive home-delivered meals on Saturdays.
