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Nancy Wackstein, UNH's Executive Director, blogs about the human services sector, and the way she sees things after 20+ years in the field. 

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C4C

With the Campaign for Children, we are fighting to restore the Mayor's Fiscal Year 2013 budget cuts, which could leave 47,000 children and families without child care and after-school programs. 

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THE ENDURING ADVANTAGE OF SETTLEMENT HOUSES features the work of UNH members, and looks at how the settlement house model creates an advantage in programs for disconnected youth and immigrant families.

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The Settlement House Advantage

Why do over half a million New Yorkers utilize settlement house services? A sense of belonging and caring. The people who come to settlement houses every day are welcomed as neighbors with skills and abilities, not clients with deficits and problems.

Programs emphasize voice, leadership and respect; comprehensive services address the needs of the whole person.

Together, these qualities make settlement houses truly "a place to call home."

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Budget Threatens Programs for City Kids

Wednesday, May 02, 2012
MetroFocus 
"People are describing the OST awards as a bloodbath," said Wackstein. "When the EarlyLearn awards are announced, it's going to be just as serious." 

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