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Special Projects, 1939-1940, 1944-1946, 1959-1970s. South Bronx Youth Service System, 1970s. Y.S.S. Newsletters. (Box 174, Folder 37)

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This folder contains materials created/collected by the United Neighborhood Houses of New York, a federation of New York City settlement houses. The United Neighborhood Houses of New York, Inc. (UNH) was founded by Mary K. Simkhovitch and John L. Elliott in 1900 as the Association of Neighborhood Workers, a federation of York City settlement houses. The organization worked to disseminate information, promote reform, unify settlement houses, and facilitate coordinated projects. During the 1960s, UNH responded to the federal government's Great Society programs with a new emphasis on seeking funding for member houses or for its own programs. This folder specifically contains materials documenting a cooperative program between United Neighborhood Houses of New York and the Regional Office of Youth Development to create and study a system for coordinating and providing services to youth in the largely African American, Haitian, and Puerto Rican South Bronx area of New York City. Spurred by the Juvenile Justice Act of 1972 and the National Strategy for Youth Development, UNH, with funding from the Department of Health Education and Welfare, established a pilot program to coordinate all youth-related agencies and services in a single area. These included parents, schools, churches, health services, the justice system, businesses, the arts, and gangs to ""bring alienated youth into the decision making processes of the society around them."" Five UNH member houses in the South Bronx served as the primary agencies for implementing the project. Each house established a youth cadre. ""Mobilizers"" organized and trained the youth, apparently for...
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