Organization Details:

Inwood Community Services, Inc. believes that every individual can achieve their life goals when afforded opportunity, guidance, and support. The organization seeks to assist those who are less fortunate to realize their potential, and, through the provision of specific programs and services, help individuals and families achieve their equal station in society, alleviate the burdens and obstacles to success, and benefit the greater community at large.

Description and/or History:
Inwood Community Services, Inc is a non-profit community-based multi-service organization in the northern-most section of Manhattan. Our services are organized in four categories: counseling, education, youth services, and community mobilization. Our current programs include: Two fully-licensed mental health and substance abuse outpatient counseling clinics; a NYS top-rated English as a Second Official Language Program; several youth and summer programs including three DYCD funded OST afterschool programs, a NYS funded Advantage After-school Program, and two successful summer playstreets; and the UNIDOS Inwood Coalition, a Federally-funded mobilization initiative to reduce youth problem behaviors in the community at large.
In 1979 a group of community residents approached a local pastor and organized a committee to address the growing problems of youth delinquency in the neighborhood. Together they created an afterschool program that went on to become incorporated two years later as the non-profit, Inwood Community Services, Inc. We have grown considerably since our first $20,000 youth counseling grant over the years to include youth tutoring, adult counseling, and eventually our first licensed alcoholism clinic. Today we are a $4 million agency with a proud reputation of providing quality professional services with friendly and bi-lingual staff many of whom are from the community we serve which helps to create a home-grown, grassroots and familiar quality to the services we provide.

Contact person: Angelo Ortiz, Program Director, (212) 942-0043 ext 130, (email)

Address:

651 Academy Street New York, NY 10034 (See a map)

Directions:

Take the "A" train to Dyckman Street and walk one block north to Academy Street, or, Take the "1" train to Dyckman Street. Walk four blocks to Broadway, then walk north one block to Academy Street   Nearest Metro/Subway Stop: Dyckman Street,   Walk distance (in minutes): 5-10 mins   Nearest Bus Stop: M100, Bx7--Academy Street, 1 min minute walk