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Email our Parent Coordinator: Arlyn Diaz
Community
Parent tips
After-School
- New Rainbow House INC (RBH Center) 754 45th Street, 1FL, Brooklyn, NY 11220 (718) 666-2459
- Brooklyn Wild
- Children of the City
- Kids Orbit
- NYC Parks After-School Program
- Salvation Army
- Kairos Learning Community of Sunset Park
- Center for Family Life
- CPC
Child Mind Institute Resources for Families
- Family resources include Facebook Live video chats with expert clinicians, remote evaluations and phone consultations, and parenting tips for managing anxiety, discipline, and behavior.
NYC Assistance Search
Food Pantries
- Center for Family Life
5505 4th Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11220 Tel: (718) 492-3585 Tuesdays 10am-1pm; Wednesdays-Thursday 11am-1pm. Photo ID required. Serving 11220, 11232, 11209, and 11219 zip codes. - Fourth Ave Presbyterian Church
6753 4th Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11220
Tel: (718) 836-0681
Monday-Friday / Call before you go - OLPH
545-60th Street Brooklyn, NY 11220 Tel: (718) 492-9200 (For members of the parish and zip codes: 11220 & 11209) (Food Vouchers: Tuesday-Thursday 9-10am) ID and proof of address Friday 10:00-12:00 - OLA Human Services 336-73rd Street Brooklyn, NY Tel: (718) 680-6344 (Once a Month Monday & Friday 10:00-12/1:00-2:00) ID for each person (children birth certificate) and proof of address.
- Salvation Army Sunset Corp
520-50th Street Brooklyn, NY
Tel: (718) 438-1771 Monday& Friday 9:30am-11:30am/1:00pm-2:30pm
ID & Proof of address
Farmers Markets / Greenmarkets
GrowNYC’s Greenmarkets
Most Greenmarkets are open and operating on schedule, so you can still shop for fresh, healthy food and support local farmers. Check GrowNYC for updates.
Local Hospitals
Maimonides Medical Center
4802 Tenth Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11219
Tel: (718) 283-6000 (Call before)
NYU Langone- Brooklyn (Lutheran Medical Center)
150 55th Street Brooklyn, NY 11220
Tel: (718) 630-7000 (Call before)
Housing/Shelters:
Brooklyn Community Housing 25 Chapel Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 Tel: (718) 852-9322 Shelter/housing assistance in Spanish, Haitian Creole, Polish, and French; Monday – Friday 9am- 5pm
Crisis and Hotlines
- Call 911 if you are in danger and in need of immediate help.
- List of common hotline numbers (USA only)
- ThriveNYC’s Mental Health Services, Support, mobile crisis, referrals, suicide prevention by talk/text/chat through NYCWell
Find information on a wealth of mental health resources for all New Yorkers, as well as services tailored to the needs of aging New Yorkers, veterans, students and young people, and people harmed by violence, crime or abuse. All services are free to New Yorkers, regardless of insurance coverage or immigration status. NYC Well is available 24/7: Call 1-888-NYC-WELL, text “Well” to 65173, or on the web at nyc.gov/nycwell. - Gender-Based Violence/Domestic Violence coping and support
- NYC Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Hotline at 800-621-4673 (HOPE), TTY: 866-604-5350 (if you are hearing impaired), or call 311 and ask for the hotline
Community Organizations
- Brooklyn Chinese-American Association
5000 8th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11220 Tel: (718) 438-0008 - Family Support Center at NYU Langone 6025 Sixth Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11220 Tel: (718) 630-7171. We focus on five areas of service: early childhood services, youth and adolescent services, community development, family strengthening services, and older adult services. The Family Support Center staff continue to be available to help community members during this difficult time by providing short term counseling, referrals to community resources, monthly access to food at their food pantry, and assistance in applying for benefits such as SNAP and WIC. Please call (718) 630-7186 to make a phone appointment for the Food Pantry.
Legal Assistance
Instructional
Additional instructional resources for Students and Families/Caregivers
The links below provide additional instructional supports for families to enhance the remote learning experience:
- Science
- Math
- Music
- Physical Activity: GoNoodle, Hello Wonderful Indoor Activities
- Art appreciation
- Art: Mo Willems Free Online Drawing Session
Brooklyn artist Mo Willems, the first Education artist-in-residence at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, is leading a free online drawing session every day at 1pm. Your little ones can see the magic behind the mind that came up with Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Knuffle Bunny and many more contemporary classics. You can watch LUNCH DOODLES live here, or catch previous sessions on YouTube. All ages.
Home Learning
Learning Support and Opportunities at Home
If you are choosing a voluntary quarantine at this time for your child, we encourage you to use this time to continue your student’s learning while they are at home. To help students engage in educational material, we have shared the resources below for students by grade level. These materials do not replace what your child has been learning at school, but during this unusual time it is important that students continue to read, write, do social studies and science activities, and work on math problems.
The materials on the grade specific pages below include:
- Suggested daily study schedules
- Guides and materials for instructional activities for 10 days of instruction:
In the event of a school closure, the NYCDOE will provide additional resources that are grade specific.
Resources for Families
How to Talk to Your Children About Race and Current Events
- Talking to Kids About Racism, Early and Often(Open external link) (New York Times)
- 31 Children’s books(Open external link) to support conversations on race, racism and resistance (Embracerace)
- 13 Children’s Books About Race and Diversity to encourage conversations about race and diversity with your children (PBS Kids)
- Black Lives Matter Still Matters(Open external link) (Teaching Tolerance)
- Talking about Race for Parents & Caregivers(Open external link) (National Museum of African American History & Culture)
- Coming Together, Standing Up to Racism(Open external link) (Sesame Street)
- Talking to Children About Racial Bias (Healthy Children.org)
- Talking About Race
- Resources for Talking to Kids About Race and Racism (Huffington Post)
- Raising Race Conscious Children: Website, Blog, and Organization that offers virtual consultations and workshops that dismantle the “color-blind” framework, and instead raise youth to work towards racial justice.
- 4 Things We Should All Teach Kids About Racism Right Now
- How to talk to kids about racism: an age by age guide (Today’s Parent)
- 60+ Resources for Talking to Kids About Racism
- 13 Tips About How to Talk to Children About Diversity and Difference (Alden H. Bacon)
Mental Health Resources
These can help address stress and trauma that children and families may be experiencing at this time.
- Managing Strong Emotional Reactions to Trauma(Open external link) (National Association of School Psychologists)
- Radical Self Care in the Face of Mounting Racial Stress(Open external link) (American Psychological Association)
Free Mental Health Support
- NYC Well For Staff, students and parents
Call: 1-888-NYC-WELL (1-888-692-9355)
Text: WELL to 65173
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