SAVE OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER!
Neighborhood Center for Homeless People (NCHP), opened in 1989, is the only drop-in/referral center for homeless people on the Upper East Side. NCHP has a daily capacity of 83 and receives an average of 150 referrals every month from local churches and synagogues, Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Outreach Team, the police and neighbors.
The NYC Department of Homeless Services (DHS) plans to cut all funding for our Center. NCHP will close on June 30, 2008 unless you help us Save Our Neighborhood Center.
Community Board 8 has already voted overwhelmingly to support the Center.
Here's what you can do to help...
Contact Mayor Bloomberg (http://www.nyc.gov/html/mail/html/mayor.html). Email Council Member Jessica Lappin (lappin@council.nyc.ny.us), Council Member Dan Garodnick (garodnick@council.nyc.ny.us), Council Speaker Christine Quinn (quinn@council.nyc.ny.us), DHS Commissioner Robert Hess (rhess@dhs.nyc.gov) and Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Linda Gibbs (lgibbs@cityhall.nyc.gov). Please copy the text below and paste it into the body of the email.
As a neighbor and a concerned community member, I am appealing to you to save our Neighborhood Center for Homeless People (NCHP) at 237 East 77th Street. It is unconscionable that the Department of Homeless Services intends to close NCHP on June 30th.
NCHP in opened in 1989, with the support of local churches and synagogues. It is one of the few programs and the only drop-in/referral center for homeless people on the Upper East Side. Without NCHP the homeless men and women in our area would be completely deprived of the services they currently receive - food, clean clothing, showers, laundry services, case management, psychiatric counseling, substance abuse treatment, medical services, vocational training and overnight stays in volunteer-staffed shelters.
Embracing the community's responsibility for its homeless neighbors, on April 16th, Community Board 8 voted overwhelmingly to support NCHP's continuation. Closing NCHP would be a terrible loss to our most vulnerable neighbors, and to our community's ability to serve them.
I urge you to reconsider your decision to close this indispensable community resource for our poorest neighbors, and to visit NCHP personally, since it is only a few blocks from your home. I look forward to your compassionate response.
Read/download our Flyer/Fact sheet
At NCHP, homeless men and women receive support and essential services leading them back to independent life.
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