Yonkers' Issan House wins award.The Greyston Foundation in Yonkers, N.Y. received a MetLife Foundation Award for Excellence in Affordable Housing at The Enterprise Foundation's network conference. The nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. received the $10,000 third-place award in the supportive housing Supportive housing is designed to support individuals, not just socially but with basic life skills. Housing is coupled with social services such as job training, alcohol and drug abuse programs and case management. category for an apartment development in Yonkers for people with special needs. "The Greyston Foundation excels at meeting a critical need in Yonkers: providing homeless people struggling with health issues a place to live, plus the services to help them overcome their personal barriers to self-sufficiency," said William Frey, Enterprise vice president and Northeast regional director. "The Greyston Foundation's Issan House is a model for other communities grappling with how to house a particularly vulnerable special needs population, enabling them to better manage their health and stabilize stabilize See peg. their lives." The Greyston Foundation's Issan House is 35-studio apartment complex that provides permanent housing for homeless people living with HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome , mental illness and chemical dependency chemical dependency n. A physical and psychological habituation to a mood- or mind-altering drug, such as alcohol or cocaine. chemical dependency . It is located in a 55,000 s/f facility in southwest Yonkers, along with the Greyston Maitri Adult Day Health Program, a larger community health program for people living with HIV/AIDS. |
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