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There are 3.4 million people over 65 in New York State. (City Hall News)
Manhattan
Hartley House, founded in 1897, is a settlement house and a community center that provides essential human services and sponsors activities to improve the quality of life and strengthen a sense of community in Hell's Kitchen/Clinton.
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Improving Health Outcomes by Increasing Access to Affordable Fresh Food
UNH is committed to building access to healthy food for all communities.
United Neighborhood Houses’ (UNH) member agencies provide nearly 1.8 million meals to 8,000 individuals each year through their child care centers, senior centers, meals on wheels, afterschool programs, homeless shelters, and HIV/AIDS programs. UNH is working with its members to help them use more fresh healthy food in preparing these meals. UNH and its member agencies are also increasingly involved in activities to bring fresh food to families through urban gardens and farmer’s markets.
For more information, contact Terry Kaelber.
UNH will work with you to manage a food drive at your office, providing boxes and signage and thank you's for you and your colleagues. We'll pick up the food and transport it to a settlement house senior center or food pantry, and will provide information about how your efforts helped New Yorkers in need with photos and program information. You are also more than welcome to visit a settlement house to see your results first-hand! To learn more, contact Jessica Ziegler.
The Queens Community House (QCH) Pomonok Farmers' Market debuted
on July 7 at 10 a.m. in the parking lot of the Pomonok Community Center,
at 67-09 Kissena Boulevard in Flushing.It will return every Thursday through mid-November and run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The market aims to increase access to affordable, healthy, locally-grown food for the residents of the Pomonok Houses and the surrounding community, where fresh produce is hard to come by.
Volunteers served over 400 lunches to seniors at UNH member Hamilton-Madison House City Hall Senior Center.
They soon may be sneaking cauliflower into the mashed potatoes and making barbecue sauce from scratch at city shelters, day cares and senior centers. Dozens of cooks began nutrition classes and hands-on training last week at a Long Island City industrial kitchen."I sit at home and watch the cooking channels to get ideas," he said. "My focus is on the younger ones. You can get them to eat more vegetables and things like that and then by the time they're five, they're not afraid of broccoli." The program, called Cooking for Healthy Communities, was developed by United Neighborhood Houses and will eventually extend to hundreds of cooks.
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