The East Harlem Council for Human Services, Inc.
The East Harlem Council for Human Services, Inc. (Council) was established in 1965 through the grass roots efforts of East Harlem residents who were fighting for adequate living conditions and their struggle to provide crucially needed services to their community. Over the course of the next 60 years the Council created programs to address many of the challenges faced by the communities they served. These programs include Bilingual Head Start, one of NYC’s first fully bilingual head start programs, the Boriken Neighborhood Health Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center that provides primary and preventive care services to any individual regardless of insurance status, ability to pay or any other factor. The Council has also developed School Based Health Centers located in 3 elementary and middle schools in East Harlem and finally we have developed a Senior Nutrition Program for Older Adults housed in Casabe Houses. As you can see from our programs we offer support to individual across the life spectrum. The board and staff of the Council are predominantly community residents and users of services who have a strong commitment to providing the highest quality of fully bilingual health and human services to the East Harlem community.
Throughout all our programs we serve tens of thousands of people and do not allow cost to be a factor. Each of our programs works with families to ensure access regardless of any factor. Not only do we provide direct services, but we also have many partners and serve as a resource for the families we work with, helping to address all their needs, we call this “whole person care.”