GRAND STREET SETTLEMENT INC

See schedule o - youth and community development servicesyouth and community development services: gss provided over 3,000 hours of out-of-school learning activities to 6,125 school-age children from low-income communities in new york city. This includes afterschool and summer day camp at schools and community centers across the lower east side and brooklyn. Gss youth programs provide hands-on learning for youth, including stem activities, arts exploration, life skills and academic learning, leadership development. Our community centers also hosted neighborhood events and programming for 600 adult community members. Youth at grand street's best buy teen tech center have recently gone onto stem-related majors at 4-year universities including: brooklyn college (filmmaking); the city college of new york (computer science); john jay college of criminal justice (forensic pathology); new york institute of technology (computer & information sciences); new york university (college of arts & sciences: pre-med; tisch school of the arts: interactive media arts; steinhardt school of culture, education, and human development: nutrition & food studies); stevens institute of technology (music technology); university at buffalo (information technology & management); and williams college (computer science).

Families/benefits assistancethrough our benefits assistance program and other social worker support, in fiscal year 2024, gss screened benefits and services for 1,651 families, with 976 enrolled in at least 1 benefit. Gss supports families in meeting their financial goals including providing free tax preparation services to 355 households. Gss referrals for legal assistance helped 271 with legal issues. The program enrolled 39 people in job training and resume building, and connected 387 families to food pantry services.food pantrygss operates weekly food pantries on the lower east side, which made over 17,000 distributions last year.