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WHO WE SERVE  
Partnership with Children is currently serving a population of over 8,000 at-risk children and youth in all five boroughs of New York City.
OPEN HEART - OPEN MIND serves students in schools in the Lower East Side and Harlem in Manhatten, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Fort Greene and Prospect Heights in Brooklyn, Melrose, Morris Heights and Unionport in the Bronx, Long Island City in Queens, and Clifton in Staten Island. Fifty-nine percent of the children served by Open Heart - Open Mind are of African and/or Caribbean origin, 33% are of Hispanic origin, and 87% are eligible for the Federal free lunch program. Over half of the students at schools where Partnership with Children works perform below grade level. The schools they attend are among those characterized by poor academic achievement, high absenteeism, and low teacher retention. LIFE STEPS provides services to adolescents and their families who live in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Brooklyn Heights, Crown Heights, Fort Greene, Greenpoint and Williamsburg. Seventy-five percent* of youth receiving Life Steps' services are of African and/or Caribbean origin while the remaining 25%* are of Hispanic origin (*approximations). All live in economically depressed neighborhoods. All of the children and adolescents served by Partnership with Children are coping with devastating social and economic problems including familial and community poverty, the impact of violence, drug abuse, the AIDS epidemic, gangs, the threat of foster care placement and the incarceration, death or illness of family members. Some children suffer from severe psychiatric problems such as suicidal or homicidal ideation and fire-setting behavior. Partnership with Children's social workers provide individual and small group counseling sessions, as well as other services, to provide these children with the skills they need to address these issues and to succeed in school, society and in their lives. | |||||||||
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