"Joy Captured" by Whitney (Walter Hoving Home - Spring 2017)

Updates:

Focal Point at Pivot Ministries | July 2018
Focal Point at Stamford Academy (DOMUS) | June 2018
Focal Point at White Plains Guest Home | April 2018
Focal Point at Dixwell Senior Center | January 2018
Focal Point at Malta House | January 2018
Focal Point at DOMUS | December 2017
Focal Point at Dixwell Senior Center | December 2017
Focal Point at Walter Hoving Home | December 2017
Focal Point at East Shore Senior Center | December 2017 
Focal Point at Greenhope | September 2017
Focal Point at Walter Hoving Home | April 2017
Focal Point at Walter Hoving Home | December 2016
Focal Point at Homes for the Brave | November 2016
Focal Point at Atwater Senior Center | November 2016
Focal Point at White Plains Guest House | September 2016
Focal Point at Malta House | September 2016
​Focal Point at Pivot Ministries | September 2016
 We're Back in Session at Walter Hoving Home! | August 2016
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Family Services of Westchester: White Plains, NY
White Plains Guest House
This assisted-living facility provides men and women a safe, secure, supervised environment that helps them maintain their physical and mental function.
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Malta House: Norwalk, CT
A house that provides a nurturing home environment and support services to pregnant and parenting mothers of all faiths, and their children. Mothers at Malta House receive on-site counseling, financial education and parental development, followed by transitional and post-residential support.
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Pivot Ministries: Norwalk & Bridgeport, CT
A residential, faith-based treatment center assisting men challenged by alcohol and substance abuse. The sanctuary provides both basic human needs along with the tools needed for long-term stability, such as job skills training, counseling and programs like Focal Point.

Outcomes
  • Developing communication skills
  • Cultivating leadership development
  • Fostering mutual support and engagement
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Family Services of Westchester: White Plains, NY
Youth Residences
  • Jerome Wagner Youth Residence for Boys
  • Evelyn Sachs Steiner Residence for Girls
The residences are for adolescents ages 13-21 and provide places of safety and support for boys and girls who cannot or should not remain in their family homes. The Focal Point curriculum works in conjunction with FSW's mission of empowering youth to become contributing members of society.

Outcomes 
  • Developing photography and visual communication skills
  • Defining and setting short term achievable goals
  • Support for healthy behaviors and socialization
  • Addressing and developing healthy relationships with peers and adults
  • Implementing, experimenting and negotiating collaborative work skills 
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ACCION Academy: New York, NY
Outcomes
  • Served as partner organization
  • Maintains creative arts programming in group homes, schools and community center
  • Offers services to low income, homeless, abused and neglected children
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San Miguel Academy: Newburgh, NY
Outcomes
  • Created non-traditional learning environment that reached some students that normally didn’t participate actively in the traditional classroom setting
  • Positive change with the students and community
  • Added benefit of student development in the form of leadership, advocacy, photographic and digital imaging skills, and empowerment



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Walter Hoving Home: Garrison, NY & Pasadena, CA
Outcomes 
  • Assisted women in reflecting on their own community concerns and issues 
  • Allowed students to see themselves as power holders and agents of change in their own lives and their own communities 
  • Provided an opportunity to develop leadership skills among a group