Henry Street Settlement opens doors of opportunity for Lower East Side residents and other New Yorkers through social service, arts, and health care programs.
For this issue of Staffing Update, we talked with Henry Street Settlement’s President and CEO David Garza, whose experience and current role within the agency make him uniquely qualified to comment on the benefits—for both jobseekers and employers—of using employment services like Henry Street’s. When Garza came to the Settlement as a job developer in… Read More »
Above: BGR staff and Ryan Vig (second from right) show off the winning 8Culture T-shirt designs. Boys and Girls Republic (BGR)—Henry Street’s youth community center on East Sixth Street, received 30 new pieces of sports equipment in February through a donation from Ryan Vig, the 16-year-old founder of the charity 8Culture. After-school participants at BGR… Read More »
Above: Anna Duensing, Dominique Jean-Louis, Robyn C. Spencer, and L. Joy Williams at Henry Street Settlement, May 29, 2019. “The NAACP is radical history. It’s women’s history. It’s working-class history. It’s a history that we need to know in order to understand the way to move forward,” said Robyn C. Spencer, professor at City University… Read More »
The Expanded Horizons Class of 2019 at the 17th Annual Scholarship Ceremony. Henry Street’s Expanded Horizons College Success program held its 17th Annual Scholarship Ceremony on May 30 in the gym at 301 Henry Street. The event honored the achievements, hard work, and dedication of the program’s current and former participants. Cheers and smiles lit… Read More »
Voices of Experience, a Henry Street Settlement senior singing group, at Music for the Mind on June 4, 2019. Seniors rose from their seats and danced as Emily Wang and the Voices of Experience, a Henry Street Settlement senior singing group, belted out “La Bamba” while shaking their maracas to the rhythm at the first… Read More »
Above: A public event hosted by Henry Street Settlement Senior Services in fall 2018; see below or here for more information about our upcoming event!
Above: Dancers at last year’s Best of L.E.S. Dance Showcase; see below or here for information on our upcoming event!
Above: Henry Street Settlement Executive Director David Garza introduces the panel. “We have no choice but to solve it,” was the opening line from City Comptroller Scott Stringer at Henry Street Settlement’s April 10, 2019, Lillian Wald Symposium, “The answer to the housing crisis is in the history of New York City itself.” Five expert… Read More »
Above: Two of the founders of the NAACP, W.E.B. DuBois and Lillian Wald, who also founded Henry Street Settlement. NOTE: This event is at capacity, but will be broadcast live on our Facebook page.
