Long Island Coalition for the Homeless

🎉 Celebrating 40 Years of Dedication & Impact! 🎉 Long Island Coalition for the Homeless is excited to announce that we are celebrating our 40th anniversary in service to the Long Island community! Over the past four decades, we have been committed to providing support, advocacy, and resources to those who need it most. Through our partnerships, programs, and tireless work, Long Island Coalition for the Homeless has made incredible strides in addressing homelessness and creating pathways to stability for individuals and families across Long Island. We owe this anniversary milestone to the dedication of our staff, volunteers, donors, and the countless community members who have stood by our side. See the details below and please join us! Here's to continuing this important work until homelessness is brief and rare on Long Island 🏡 ❤️ 🗝️ #LICH40 #EndHomelessness #40YearsOfImpact #CommunitySupport #MakingADifference #LongIslandCoalitionForTheHomeless

On a hazy, humid August morning, two nurses from our Street Medicine team greet their first patient — Virginia. Virginia needed follow-up care after suffering a stroke only months earlier in Florida, before driving back to New York. Unable to secure a place to stay with family and unwilling to part with her pets, Virginia chose instead to sleep in her car. “I originally thought I was going to die here in this car," said Virginia. "There was no hope. Meeting people who care is great. I need to see a real neurologist — and now they’re going to set me up with an appointment.” “All of our patients come through the Long Island Coalition for the Homeless, which canvasses the region and identifies people with health care needs,” said Mary Mahoney, NP, vice president of Emergency Management and Clinical Preparedness at Northwell and the lead clinician for the Street Medicine program. “We go wherever the need is." 🔗 https://bit.ly/4lG1hsV

https://lnkd.in/d7zz9amx I recently had the privilege of being interviewed on “Play It Forward” with Silas W. Kelly LMSW - “E-Journalism Social Work Advocate” by Allison Van Cott-McEntee. I got to talk about library social work, Stony Brook University School of Social Welfare, University at Buffalo School of Social Work, the book both Silas and I wrote chapters for , “101 Things To Do With A Social Work Degree” and some of tne ways social work transforms the world. NASW NYS Melanie Sage, PhD Laurel Hitchcock, PhD, LICSW-S Long Island Coalition for the Homeless

Insightful Newsday Media Group article on our Street Medicine program showing the impact of our work over the last year with Northwell Health and our Long Island Coalition for the Homeless team, led by Dylan Schwarz. A huge thanks to Debbie Salas-Lopez, MD, MPH, FACP for her advocacy and commitment to providing healthcare to people living unsheltered on Long Island, and to the incredible volunteers at Northwell Health and Molloy University for their dedication to the most vulnerable members of our communities. "We do a lot of survival work with folks on the street, but our ultimate goal is helping them get into permanent housing” - Greta Guarton, LMSW, executive director and CEO of Long Island Coalition for the Homeless "Working with the Coalition helped us understand how important it is to approach people with respect and dignity and not make assumptions of what they need” - Debbie Salas-Lopez, MD, MPH, FACP, executive vice president for Northwell’s Institute for Community Health and Wellness https://lnkd.in/efcU6XJh

In today’s 40 Years: 40 Stories of Impact at the Long Island Coalition for the Homeless, we hear from our incredible friend, sponsor, and longtime volunteer Ray Schwetz from Jovia Financial Credit Union! 🌱🏠 Ray takes us through our community garden, boutique, and Concern Housing's Liberty Village — home to previously homeless Veterans — and shares why he’s proud to support our mission. We are so grateful to Ray and to Jovia for supporting our community! Thank you for standing with us to create lasting change! 💙 #LICHTurns40 #40Stories40Years #SupportNotStigma

In a guest essay published today in Newsday, Long Island Coalition for the Homeless Executive Director, Greta Guarton, LMSW, writes about the impact of the recently passed federal budget, as well as the devastating effects cutting HUD funding will have on Long Island: "Nearly half a million voucher recipients statewide, 100,000 subsidized Section 8 units, and 164,000 public housing tenants could be stripped of the support they depend on to remain safely and stably housed. That means mass evictions, a destabilized housing market and a rollback of crucial systems that have helped end the cycle of homelessness here on Long Island." - Greta Guarton Read more in Newsday Media Group: https://lnkd.in/ewYMjF7Q

For our milestone anniversary, Long Island Coalition for the Homeless is kicking off 40 Years: 40 Stories of Impact with a special message from our Executive Director, Greta Guarton, LMSW! 🎉 Greta shares why she’s proud to lead the Coalition and celebrate four decades of life-changing work. Stay tuned as we spotlight the voices, stories, and heart behind the mission. 💙 #LICHTurns40 #40Stories40Years #EndHomelessness

Hi all! Due to predicted rain, we are postponing An Evening at the Preserve Fundraiser at the Garden City Bird Sanctuary to Saturday, June 28th at 6pm.  Sign up at https://lnkd.in/eqCm8Ye7...

The New York Community Trust - Long Island and the Long Island Coalition for the Homeless are in the news 📰 Check out this Long Island Business News article about critical nonprofit work on Long Island funded by NYCT 🙏 https://lnkd.in/ej733pyY