Yearlong Health and Housing Resources for Disabled Youth

In which borough should your idea take place? Bronx

Do you have a specific neighborhood(s) in mind?

Hunts Point, Melrose, Mott Haven, Port Morris

Which audience(s) does your idea help? Select as many as apply.

Youth

Low income individuals

Black, Indigenous, and POC

Unemployed individuals

People with disabilities

Describe the challenge you want to address:

One of the challenges our audience face is the lack of housing, lack of services for their disability, lack of support from family, friends, and shelter staff, programs that are inaccessible to thrive in the city. Lack of funds, for them replace devices to help them live, lack of transportation access for their disabilities.

Describe your idea and approach to address the challenge:

We believe programming in the shelter would help our resident address these challenges by providing services for housing placement, job placement, and resources for their disability such as sign language , interpreters, access to medical devices such as hearing aids.

Write the zipcode that best represents your New York City community:

10451