Organization Details:

The Bridge to Life provides material assistance to mothers and their children including maternity clothes, infant layettes, children's clothes and infant furniture. We provide counseling and assistance to pregnant women to insure that they receive proper prenatal care, housing, and emotional support.

Description and/or History:
The Bridge to Life, Inc. is an organization dedicated to helping needy pregnant women and their children.
Our mission is to ensure a safe and healthy birth of a child and the well-being of the mother. Our organization is located in College Point, Queens, NY and has a satellite office in Astoria, NY. The area we serve includes all five boroughs of New York City. We are nonsectarian, non-judgmental and apolitical.

We are an active member of the Pregnancy Service Network of Greater New York. The Bridge to Life opened on March 2, 1992 and has served thousands of mothers and their children since that time. The College Point center has devoted 1,750 square feet of its space exclusively to material assistance. It has become the largest such center in New York City.

Contact people:

Irene Dachtera, Office Manager, (718) 463-1810, (email) Virginia Gallo, Executive Director, (718) 463-1810, (email) Catherine Donohue, President, (718) 463-1810, (email)

Address:

129-20A 18th Avenue College Point, NY 11356 (See a map)

Directions:

Van Wyck Expressway to 20th Avenue exit. Right turn onto 20th Avenue. Go past shopping center. Turn right on 130th Street. Go one block and turn left onto 18th Avenue. Look for glass door on left hand side.