NEW STRIDES INC
EIN 11-3338053 · Residential Mental Health Treatment (F33)
What they do
NEW STRIDES, INC. is AN AFFILIATE of MERCY HAVEN, INC. MERCY HAVENS MISSION is to ACKNOWLEDGE THE DIGNITY and POTENTIAL of PEOPLE WHO ARE HOMELESS, LIVING WITH MENTAL ILLNESS or LIVING IN POVERTY BY PROVIDING HOUSING, ADVOCACY, EDUCATION and LIFE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT. FROM A HUMBLE BEGINNING IN BAY SHORE IN 1985, AS A PROVIDER of HOUSING for PERSONS LIVING WITH MENTAL ILLNESS, OUR HOUSING PROGRAMS NOW INCLUDE THE ELDERLY, LIMITED INCOME FAMILIES AS WELL AS PERSONS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS. MERCY HAVEN and ITS AFFILIATE, NEW STRIDES, INC. HAVE GROWN THROUGHOUT THEIR 38 YEARS to BECOME A MULTIFACETED COMMUNITY RESOURCE. OUR SUPPORT PROGRAMS INCLUDE FREE LEGAL ADVOCACY, EDUCATION and EMPLOYMENT SKILLS TRAINING, COMMUNITY OUTREACH, STAFF ON CALL 24/7, and A SOPHISTICATED PROPERTY MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT. WE HAVE BROUGHT SERVICES to BOTH NASSAU and SUFFOLK COUNTIES IN NEW YORK and ARE DEDICATED MEMBERS of THE COMMUNITIES WE SERVE. WE ENVISION COMMUNITIES WHERE DIVERSITY and INCLUSION ARE VALUED and I
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About this charity
- Recognized since
- January 1997
- Location
- 859 CONNETQUOT AVE STE 10, ISLIP TERRACE, NY 11752-1400
- County
- Suffolk
- In care of
- % KATHLEEN NOLAN