Good Shepherd Volunteers

Based on a highly successful European model and the first of its kind in the United States, the Chelsea Foyer is an innovative supported housing-based job training program for 40 young adults in their late teens and early twenties. Participants live in a congregate setting and participate in an 18-24 month personalized program, receiving onsite case management services and linkages to rigorous job training and placement, educational, and life-skills development resources. The program targets young people who are "aging out" of foster and residential care, homeless youth and other young adults who lack the independent living and employment skills necessary to obtain affordable housing in New York. The Chelsea Foyer is a collaboration between Common Ground Community and Good Shepherd Services. Good Shepherd has overall responsibility for the program including provision of intake, case management, youth development, mentoring and other services. Common Ground provides facility management and building wide security as well as linkages to employment training.
Chelsea Foyer Job Description

Serving New York City area women and families, Safe Homes aims to provide communities with information and tools to understand the roots and dynamics of domestic violence. Safe Homes provides shelter as well as services to single women as well as women with children. Through education and training, Safe Homes works to create an environment that is more responsive, aware, and supportive of survivors, while providing quality, comprehensive services to victims of battering.
Safe Homes Job Description

Long-Term Residences

Marian Hall and St. Helena's Residences (all positions full)
Marian Hall and St. Helena's Residences, our two long-term, residential programs, are both located in Manhattan. They have a combined capacity of 36 beds and work with approximately 75 young women each year. All residents have been placed in our care through either a persons in need of supervision (PINS) or abuse and neglect petition in the Family Court or on a voluntary basis by a parent. We seek to help the young women heal past wounds and develop new coping skills, while developing their competencies to ensure a more promising future. The residences are open settings from which girls attend community schools appropriate to their needs, participate in social activities, and maintain regular contact with their families. Services include group living in a therapeutic environment; weekly individual, group and family therapy; substance abuse intervention; recreational activities; comprehensive medical care; opportunities for part-time work and community service activities; employment and vocational counseling; a mentoring program and preparation for independent living. Youngsters stay in these settings for an average of two years, until they are able to return home or live independently.
Marian Hall & St. Helena's Job Description

Short Term Residences

Euphrasian
Euphrasian in Manhattan is a short-term, diagnostic center for adolescents in crisis who are referred by the Family Courts or the New York City Administration for Children's Services. Housing 34 young women and 12 young men respectively, they work with more than 200 youngsters annually. During six to twelve-week stays, each young person receives a comprehensive evaluation by a team of social workers, psychiatrists, psychologists, educators, and physicians. They attend school on-site, are assigned a social worker with whom they meet twice a week, and participate in group counseling, our mentoring program, recreation and social activities. Our staff works with the adolescents and their families to resolve the immediate crises and implement a plan for the future, either to return home with supportive services or continue in an appropriate long-term setting.
Euphrasian Residence Job Description

Foster Boarding Home Program
Foster Boarding Home Program (FBH) Each year, Good Shepherd Services' foster boarding home program, McMahon Services for Children, works with more than 600 New York City children who have been removed from their birth families or caretakers because of possible abuse and/or neglect. Referred by the NYC Administration for Children's Services (ACS), these children are placed in safe, temporary care with trained, supportive resource (foster) parents who work with agency staff to ensure that each child's educational, social, medical, developmental, spiritual, and recreational needs are met. At the same time, we provide birth parents with parenting workshops, comprehensive substance abuse services, information, resource referrals, and child visitation activities to help them address the issues that contributed to the removal of the child from the home. Our FBH program works towards family reunification and reconciliation, and only when it is not in a child's best interest due to safety issues do we seek the successful placement of a child in an adoptive home or prepare him or her for independent living. As the city-wide child welfare system moves to a neighborhood-based approach to the delivery of foster care services, Good Shepherd is concentrating its efforts on the communities of Harlem and East Harlem (Community Districts 10 and 11), Manhattan and the Kingsbridge/Tremont section of the Bronx (CD's 5, 6 and 7).
McMahon Services Job Description

Teaching/Afterschool Placements

P.S. 27 (all positions full)
The After-School Centers at both P.S. 27 and P.S. 32 are Red Hook, a developing community on the west side of Brooklyn. The programs work with youth from about 5 to 14 years old, focusing on creative projects, literacy, field trips, and recreation. By providing a space for children to use their creative energy after the school day, the After-School Centers empower young people to learn in positive ways.
PS 27 Job Description

P.S. 32
The After-School Centers at both P.S. 27 and P.S. 32 are located in Red Hook, a developing community on the west side of Brooklyn. The programs work with youth from about 5 to 14 years old, focusing on creative projects, literacy, field trips, and recreation. By providing a space for children to use their creative energy after the school day, the After-School Centers empower young people to learn in positive ways.
PS 32 Job Description

Hand Crafting Justice (all positions full)
Handcrafting Justice , a Non-For –Profit, Fair Trade Initiative of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, works in coopertaion with women and men in fourteen developing countries. These women and men have great desire to provide for their families and better their economic situation, but find little opportunity. We assist their efforts to improve their lives by marketing their handcrafted goods and by raising awareness of the situations they confront.
Handcrafting Justice Job Description
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