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EMPLOYMENT READINESS INITIATIVE
The purpose of the Employment Readiness Initiative Program (ERI) is to provide direct vocational and supportive services to homeless individuals in Nassau County to assist them in reaching their goals towards economic self-sufficiency.
EMPLOYMENT
SHUTTLE PROGRAM
The Employment Shuttle Program provides transportation for
individuals in select emergency shelter locations in Suffolk
County to employment, educational/vocational training, job
readiness training, Department of Labor appointments, job
interviews, job fairs and child care (in conjunction with
employment related activity).
ENHANCED EMPLOYMENT
INITIATIVE
The Enhanced Employment Initiative Program (EEI) is a vocational program designed to provide court mandated clients, with employment placement and other transitional services, that way assisting defendants and their family gain financial security and independence, and maintain childcare support to their children.
EDUCATION,
REHABILITATION & SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM (ERASE)
ERASE is an alternative sentencing program
used by the Family Court for persons in violation of court-ordered
child support. The program's primary goal is to increase
child support collections. It is used for individuals who
are unemployed, self-employed, or work "off the books",
and are therefore not subject to wage withholding or other
standard means of collection.
FAMILY
CONNECTIONS PROJECT
The Family Connections Project is intended to help reunify
families where parental problems have resulted in recent placement
of children in DSS care.
FAMILY
COURT ADVOCATE PROGRAM
The Family Court Advocate Program provides the court with
trained volunteers who investigate, monitor and report to
the court on the status of individual children in foster care.
Assigned by a Family Court Judge, Court Appointed Special
Advocate (CASA) volunteers represent "the best interests
of a child" and work to ensure that children receive
the services they need with a goal of achieving a permanent
home for the children to whom they are assigned. The Family
Court Advocate Program has been in operation since 1987.
FAMILY
COURT TASC
The Long Island Family Court TASC Programs are intervention
and prevention programs which bring services to individuals
appearing in Family Court who are substance abusers. TASC
identifies the level of addiction, makes a referral to an
appropriate treatment agency, and monitors treatment progress
for the Court. EAC has operated TASC programs in the metropolitan
area since 1978.
FAMILY
TREATMENT COURTS
The goal of the Family Treatment Court is to promote the rehabilitation
of neglectful substance-abusing parents, the preservation
or reunification of their families and/or permanency for their
children. The Family Treatment Court was first implemented
in December of 1997 in Suffolk County as a result of the overwhelming
numbers of parents who appear before the Court on Neglect
petitions due to substance abuse. These parents are directed
to drug treatment by case managers who monitor their treatment
progress. Child welfare and service issues are handled by
Child Protective Service workers and case managers. Progress
of both parents and children is reported directly to the Court.
FOOD & NUTRITION SERVICES
The Food & Nutirtion Services program for persons living with HIV+/AIDS,
provides home-bound individuals with HIV+/AIDS with high caloric,
high nutrition hot and cold meals daily. Eligible individuals
live in the Hempstead, Westbury and New Cassel communities.
Dependent children are also fed through the program, which
has been in operation since 1992.
HEMPSTEAD
SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER
The Hempstead Senior Community Service Center provides senior
citizens from the Hempstead, Uniondale, Lakeview and West
Hempstead area with a daily hot lunch and a wide range of
activities. Transportation is provided to and from the Center.
Field trips to other centers and to area museums, beaches
and places of interest are also part of the program's schedule.
EAC has administered the Hempstead Community Service Center
since 1992.
HIV
PREVENTION INITIATIVE
Responding to the fact that substance abuse carries an increased risk of HIV infection, this TASC program offers strategies to prevent infection to reduce high-risk behaviors and substance abuse, as well as to improve practices that reduce HIV transmission..
HOME
ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
The Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) assists low-income
households meet the high cost of home energy and utility expenses.
Over 2,700 clients are served annually. EAC has been administering
the HEAP Program since 1991.
JOB
OPPORTUNITIES & BASIC SKILLS PROGRAM (JOBS)
The goal of the JOBS Program is to help Nassau County public
assistance recipients gain the skills necessary to become
employed and self-sufficient. JOBS was developed in 1991 as
part of a New York State Welfare-to-Work initiative. Over
7,000 individuals have been helped by JOBS since 1991.
INTERVENTION & CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
The purpose of the Intervention & Career Development Program is to provide the vocational tools and soft skills necessary for both current and former gang members to become economically self-sufficient through positive life style changes.
LONG
ISLAND LEARNING CENTERS
The purpose of EAC's Learning Centers it to help junior and
senior high schools students who cannot function in a regular
school environment obtain the necessary education which will
make it possible for them to graduate from high school. EAC's
first program, the Long Island Learning Centers have been
serving learning disabled and emotionally disturbed students
since 1971.
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