Another Choice Youth and Family Outreach, (ACYFO) is an East Harlem based nonprofit organization dedicated to providing access to supportive services for local youth and families, especially citizens returning from incarceration. We use strategic arts engagement as a tool to engage the East Harlem community to disrupt violence, and promote public safety.
In addition to providing professional development and artistic literacy courses, we operate a food pantry program to address food insecurity in our community. We take a holistic approach to facilitating referrals and service delivery, ensuring that community members have access to a diverse catalog of local resources.
We believe that the fight for social change will end at the intersection of criticizing and enacting social change with clear collective action. We are asking for your support as we “Reclaim the 2nd Floor Space” by creating the ACYFO Theater and Center for Solutions. Your donation will help us to execute our community engagement strategy to utilize the transformative power of strategic arts engagement to address and offset the often-interlacing dilemmas of poverty, domestic violence, re-entry, and recidivism.
PRODLY SERVING THE HARLEM COMMUNITY AND BEYOND
In order to foster informed solutions in East Harlem to offset poverty and incarceration we conduct community- centered research with youth and adult participants. The information gathered is directly useful to impacted individuals, their communities, policy makers, academic institutions, nonprofits and beyond.
We form relationships to build our individual and collective capacity to be change agents.
ACYFO is a safe space for community members to seek direct and referral social-psychological support. We have ordained ministers and licensed social workers with lived-experience on call to support community members with mental wellness coaching, individualized mentorship, and referrals for mental health services.
We execute our mission by forming strategic collaborations enabling multi-dimensional advocacy and educational strategies. We believe that there is strength in numbers. In 2022 we brought community stakeholders together for community symposiums and discussions about fostering and implementing community-based solutions to promoting public safety and reducing poverty in our communities.
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