Projects - FOCAL POINT

Target Organization: DOMUS Kids (Stamford, CT)

FIRST LIGHT

Target Organization: Homes for the Brave (Bridgeport, CT)

Target Organization: Family Services of Westchester (Westchester, NY)

EVELYN SACHS STEINER RESIDENCE FOR GIRLS / YOUTH RESIDENCE FOR BOYS / JEROME WAGNER YOUTH RESIDENCE FOR BOYS / WHITE PLAINS GUEST HOME

Target Organization: Greenhope (New York, NY)

Target Organization: Malta House (Norwalk, CT)

Needs Assessment:

To assist women in strengthening themselves as agents of change in their lives
To enable women to record and reflect their community's strengths and concerns
To promote critical dialogue and knowledge about personal and community issues
To empower students to create and initiate contact with policy makers to create change

Target Organization: Department of Elderly Services (New Haven, CT)

DIXWELL SENIOR CENTER / ATWATER SENIOR CENTER / EAST SHORE SENIOR CENTER
Needs Assessment:

Support areas of concern for seniors in community by developing group dynamic and skill building
Provide opportunities for public education and outreach for social support and quality of life
Enable participants to reflect and record issues such as; major life changes, grief and loss, physical and mental challenges and family dynamics

Target Organization: West Side Federation (New York, NY)

RED OAK SENIOR CENTER / FREDERICK DOUGLASS SENIOR CENTER
Needs Assessment:

Support areas of concern for seniors in community by developing group dynamic and skill building
Provide opportunities for public education and outreach for social support and quality of life
Enable participants to reflect and record issues such as; major life changes, grief and loss, physical and mental challenges and family dynamics

Target Organization: The Bowery Mission - Heartsease Home (New York, NY)

Needs Assessment:

To assist women in strengthening themselves as agents of change in their lives
To enable women to record and reflect their community's strengths and concerns
To promote critical dialogue and knowledge about personal and community issues
To empower students to create and initiate contact with policy makers to create change

Target Organization: Pivot Ministries (Bridgeport & Norwalk, CT)

Needs Assessment:

To change self-expectation through community ownership
To help men develop skills in a decision making capacity
To encourage democratic participation in the group process
To promote group support on issues of accountability
To provide educational enrichment in organization learning

Target Organization: Family Services of Westchester (White Plains, NY)

Needs Assessment:

Shared Understanding
To develop support to create and collaborate through the photographic lens

Shared Support
To develop community base of integrated goals and understanding

Shared Challenge
To develop core skills and goals through arts context

Target Organization: Walter Hoving Home (Garrison, NY & Pasadena, CA)

Needs Assessment:

Conceived to address significant community concerns in the lives of the populations, where there are significant disparities and negative social outcomes impacting girls and women
The project objective is to develop a contribution to the health and well-being of the women at WHH
Focal Point is a methodology used in the field of community development, public health, and education

Target Organization: Accion Academy

Needs Assessment:

Arts education programming is designed to fit educational standards criteria and mission statement of organization
Provide opportunities for students to learn the value of community service and activism
Fulfill community service requirement called ‘Community Action’
Students graduate with 120 hours of community service

Target Organization: San Miguel Academy

Needs Assessment:

Develop collaborative group dynamic
Increase opportunity for critical thinking and collaborative decision making
Create opportunities for student interaction, engagement and discussion of life issues
Engage larger community
Develop self as a stakeholder