Frontline workers serving NYC’s most vulnerable still lack hazard pay from city and state
Jericho Project along with other supportive housing networks in NYC were mentioned in an article by Queens Eagle. You can view it on their website here.
Jericho Book Club: Poverty
A new reading list for those who are interested in contextualizing and understanding poverty in the United States. This book club list offers a variety of viewpoints and the authors represented here approach poverty from interesting and compelling angles. There exists no singular expression of poverty, and poverty does not strike all demographics equally, those[…..]
Jericho Book Club: Mental Health Awareness Month
May is Mental Health Awareness Month and we find that books can not only help us understand or sympathize, but can often help us talk about difficult topics. Here are some must-read books to enjoy this month to help start a conversation and #endthestigma.
Jericho Book Club: Young Adult and LGBTQ+
As we collectively begin to practice social distancing, it is important for us find ways of maintaining our sense of community. It is also a great time for us to all to spend more time reading content that will broaden our perspective and take us away from the daily onslaught of health related news. With[…..]
Jericho Book Club: Homelessness
As we collectively begin to practice social distancing, it is important for us find ways of maintaining our sense of community. It is also a great time for us to all to spend more time reading content that will broaden our perspective and take us away from the daily onslaught of health related news. With[…..]
Jericho Project Receives $2.2 Million in VA Grants to Combat Veterans Homelessness
Combination of grants provide vets with vital funds and counseling to get housed and prevent homelessness New York, NY November 5 – Jericho Project, a nationally-acclaimed nonprofit ending homeless at its roots, has won a two-year $2-million grant from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to launch a new program to reduce homelessness among veterans[…..]
Opinion: Bring Humanity to the Fight Against Homelessness
Opinion: Bring Humanity to the Fight Against Homelessness Jericho Project CEO Tori Lyon recently wrote an insightful op-ed piece that discusses and promotes progressive changes that can be made to public policy and current social service funding levels that we believe will ultimately result in getting more New Yorkers off the streets and on with[…..]
Jericho Project’s Day of Action Against Homelessness
The third annual Day of Action joined individuals, families, community partners and companies in projects such as assembling and distributing spa packages, preparing food and toy drives and decorating Jericho residences for holiday celebrations. Read More via Bronx Times
Gardening Day at Walton House
It was a great spring day in the Bronx. Volunteers from Neuberger Berman participated in a day of gardening at our Walton House residence. Neuberger Berman employees, Jericho’s staff and residents enjoyed a day of planting the first flowers in the new development which will open this summer. Walton House will be the new home of formerly homeless and low-income veterans[…..]
Jericho Opens Veterans Resource Center in Ozone Park
[Originally published in Queens Ledger] Jericho Project opened its first Queens-based Veterans Resource Center in Ozone Park last Friday. The 35-year-old nonprofit organization’s original mission was to fight homelessness. In 2006, the group started the Veterans Initiative, which now serves 750 veterans annually.