United Neighborhood Houses of New York

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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 the Neighborhood Youth Corps special projects. UNH began administering the Neighborhood Youth Corps program in its settlement houses in 1965. Corps programs were funded by the U.S. Department of Labor under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. In New York City, the program was first administered by the city's Anti-Poverty Operations Board, followed by the Economic Opportunity Committee in 1966, and, by 1967, the Manpower and Career Development Agency of the city's Human Resources Administration. UNH was one of an average of 28 agencies that contracted with the city to run corps programs. The Neighborhood Youth Corps was available to impoverished youth between the ages of 16 and 21. (By 1967, the minimum age was lowered to 14.) In 1966, three programs were available: ""out-of-school"" for youth who had dropped out of school; ""in-school"" for young people who were still in school or intended to return; and...

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