Boys and Girls Club of Newburgh, Inc.

Youth Force is a college preparation and workforce development initiative designed to provide high school students with the resources and support they need to successfully graduate from high school and transition into the college or career of their choice. Youth Force offers an approach that combines academic support, mentorship, and career development to create a clear pathway to success.

Community Action Partnership for Dutchess County

Dress for Success (DFS) empowers women to achieve economic independence by providing a supportive network, professional attire, and career tools to help women thrive in work and life. All programs furnish clients with skills that build confidence that participants carry forever. The program helps clients to actively define their lives, the direction they take, and what success means to them.

Cornell Cooperative Extension Dutchess County

Through its Workforce Training program, Green Teen Beacon Workforce Development actively engages at-risk youth aged 14-19. Participants earn wages while developing essential vocational and employment skills. The program operates after school three times a week in the Spring and Fall, and during the day throughout the Summer. Staff members are committed to identifying and building on individual strengths, which helps youth gain the confidence and social-emotional tools necessary to manage their behaviors and navigate their social environments effectively. All activities are strategically designed for comprehensive life and vocational skills development.

CultureConnect

CommunityConnect is an after-school and summer academic enrichment program specifically designed for K-5 English as a New Language (ENL) students within the Rhinebeck and Red Hook school districts. The program offers free or low-cost after-school academic enrichment, including homework help, literacy development, math support, and social-emotional learning through one-on-one and small group tutoring.

Family Services

Family Services' Youth Services Program provides engaging activities that improve meantal health outcomes and promote positive youth development. Through group activities, workshops, recreation, and individual therapy, the program supports social emotional development, builds resilience, bolsters skills and protective factors, and prevents youth violence using evidence-informed interventions.

Hudson River Housing, Inc.

River Haven (RH) provides NYS certified emergency shelter for runaway & homeless youth in a safe, trauma-informed environment. Youth work with a Care Manager to pursue family reunification or other stable housing at discharge. Using evidence-based Positive Youth Development strategies, RH helps youth heal from trauma, build life skills, strengthen protective factors & achieve long-term stability. 

Land to Learn

SproutEd in Newburgh & Beacon offers a garden-based educational program specifically for K-3 students. The program involves maintaining school food gardens and providing lessons throughout the school year that focus on nutrition, cooking, plant science, ecology, and food systems. Additional 2026 funding will support cafeteria tasting and nutrition events, expanding our impact by establishing new and revitalized programming that was paused during the pandemic.

Literacy Connections of the Hudson Valley

Book Buddies recruits and matches volunteers with 3rd and 4th-grade students, identified by their teachers as reading below grade level. Volunteers are trained to use differentiated material to help students improve their reading skills and confidence. By reading aloud and utilizing a dialogic method, Classroom Book Buddies offer a supportive, enjoyable book experience for children.

NAMI Mid-Hudson

NAMI Ending the Silence (ETS) delivers a powerful presentation to middle and high school students, featuring a certified NAMI lead presenter alongside a young adult who shares their personal story of navigating a mental health condition. This program directly addresses critical concerns including substance/alcohol abuse, suicide prevention, bullying, and the fight against stigma. By sharing these experiences, ETS works to increase awareness, alter perceptions of mental health, and cultivate essential citizenship skills that enable students to support their peers.

Pawling Free Library

Pawling Library’s Children & Young Adult Programs is the umbrella under which all of the events the library hosts for youth and families fall. Each year, Pawling Library hosts more than 500 free events and classes for youth birth-18 years old and families, including story times, science education, reading support, art, and more. The library fills more than 6,500 seats in their youth classes each year, with a 2025 average of 43 programs and 589 attendees a month..

The Art Effect

Spark Studios provides 55 teens (ages 14-19) with film and media arts instruction as well as paid work experiences and a safe space outside of school where they can learn valuable technical and workforce skills, gain access to technology, explore careers in the creative sector, build positive relationships, engage in creative activities, and establish community connections.

Warwick Valley Community Center

Life Skills for Teens is designed to cultivate internal assets and instill protective factors in teenagers. The program incorporates various prevention, educational, and cultural diversity activities, and supports students as they transition between elementary, middle, and high school. Participants engage in both community service and leadership skill-building initiatives. The program is further strengthened by the implementation of evidence-based environmental strategies and evidence-based/informed programs.

Reading & Math, Inc dba Ampact

Early Learning Corps (ELC) is a nationally recofnized, research-based early childhood program that places trained AmeriCorps members into pre-K classrooms to provide individualized support in early literacy, numeracy, and social-emotional development. ELC partners with local early childhood programs, including community-based preschools, UPK classrooms, and nonprofit early learning centers. 

Catholic Charities Community Services of Dutchess County

Financial Stability intervention programs by the CCCSDC help households avoid the trauma of eviction & the despair of financial pitfalls. They assist in the payment of rents and utilities while also addressing other immediate needs to avert crises. All requests for assistance are triaged by the Coordinator & ED & if appropriate are assigned a case manager by the latter.

Catholic Charities Community Services of Orange, Sullivan & Ulster

Financial Stability program provides basic care coordination services that include rental assistance, utility assistance, and financial crisis intervention due to medical expenses, eviction, or homelessness.  In order to assist vulnerable populations in achieving financial stability. As a result, helping children thrive and families become more engaged, contributing members of their community.

Community Action Partnership for Dutchess County

The Crisis Intervention and Case Management program provides emergency financial assistance for families faced with an economic crisis and case management support to help them navigate out of crisis and into stability. Struggling daily to meet basic needs (food, shelter, utilities, and health) low income families cannot absorb an unexpected expense, such as an auto repair.

Dutchess Outreach, Inc.

The Emergency Assistance Program works with families and individuals to overcome an emergency financial crisis, advocate when unfairly denied services or assistance elsewhere, refer to other agencies' and organizations' programs and services for additional support, and ultimately help people become self-sufficient.

Fearless! Hudson Valley

The Financial Assistance Program (FAP) supports survivors of victimization and abuse in accessing emergency financial awards in order to: reduce barriers created by the financial abuse perpetrated against them; support their economic empowerment; and increase their opportunities to gain safety, security and stability in long-lasting and meaningful ways.

Grace Smith House, Inc.

Meets Basic Needs is designed to help victims of domestic violence stabilize their lives by providing direct financial assistance to alleviate an impending financial crisis. The program also provides support and services needed to empower survivors and their children to move towards building a solid foundation of financial stability and independence from their abuser.

Hudson River Housing, Inc.

Housing Navigator provides emergency housing assistance to low-income households. The Housing Navigator works closely with households to help them develop housing stability plans tailored to their needs. The Navigator may assist them in applying for public benefits, connect them with employment opportunities, and/or refer them to childcare, health care, legal services, and other community resources.

Jewish Family Services

The Financial Empowerment Program offers one-time financial assistance to families and individuals experiencing a temporary financial setback. JFS helps with arrears in rent, utility bills, and auto-related expenses, as well as the security deposit required for a new apartment. Applications are reviewed by a committee based on documentation of the temporary circumstance and the applicant's ability to move forward after assistance has been provided.

Legal Services of the Hudson Valley

Income Stabilization and Homelessness Prevention provides legal assistance to individuals who have been incorrectly denied, or terminated from, public assistance programs, incl. TANF, SNAP/Food Stamps, WIC, Unemployment Insurance, Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare, and Veterans Benefits; provides Emergency Cash Assistance - rental and utility arrears; handles Consumer Law cases. This stabilizes household incomes at a subsistence level.

Through the CA$H Coalition Program, low and moderate-income residents recieve crucial support with free tax preparation. The program is designed to assist them in identifying and claiming every refund applicable to their personal tax situation.

Common Ground Farm (CGF)

The Beacon Schools Food Access program actively works to ensure vulnerable students receive fresh, nutritious food. Each Friday, the program distributes groceries to students, providing essential food for their weekends. Furthermore, it engages families in broader food access initiatives by supplying double-up coupons and market cards for use at the Beacon Farmers’ Market.

Food Bank of the Hudson Valley

The Food for Dutchess & Orange County Feeding Program aims to provide nutritious food to low-income residents of Dutchess and Orange Counties through local food pantries and soup kitchens. The program achieves this by funding lines of credit at the Food Bank for these agencies. This funding covers handling fees for donated food and the cost of purchased food, allowing agencies to serve more people.

Food For Kids

Food For Kids supports an average of 273 students each week within the Washingtonville Central School District’s five buildings. The program offers sufficient provisions to cover two breakfasts, two lunches, beverages, and snacks for the weekend. For extended holiday weekends or school breaks, extra food is distributed. During the summer, the program supplied breakfast, lunch, snacks, and drinks for a six-week duration.

North East Community Center

The Food Access Program is dedicated to distributing fresh food across Northeast Dutchess. It operates a food pantry that provides both weekly walk-in service and convenient home delivery. The program partners with farms to ensure the sourcing of fresh foods that align with cultural needs. Food distribution occurs in environments designed to uphold dignity, foster self-efficacy, and offer comprehensive wraparound services. Additionally, the program's hub actively supports coalition efforts aimed at enhancing the resilience and equity of the regional food system.

Pawling Resource Center

The Food Insecurity Program provides a food pantry accessible to individuals and families connected to Pawling/Holmes, NY, whether through residence, employment, schooling, or church attendance. The pantry offers clients access twice a month, with hours from 10 AM to 4 PM on weekdays (extended to 5 PM on Wednesdays), and from 10 AM to 12 PM on the second Saturday of each month. For homebound clients, food delivery is also available twice a month when requested.

Poughkeepsie Farm Project (PFP)

The City FRESH program actively works to remove obstacles to healthy food choices, simultaneously encouraging healthy eating and lifestyle habits for youth and families. This is accomplished through providing access to nutritious foods, with a special emphasis on fresh vegetables, and by delivering positive, engaging learning experiences at PFP, PCSD schools, and throughout the community.

Hudson River Housing, Inc.

No veteran should be without a home. The VetZero Program provides rapid housing assistance for low-income veterans in need, offering hands-on support to help them quickly find a safe place to live and build a stable future. Assistance includes help with initial housing costs, transportation, and connections to essential services.

Legal Services of the Hudson Valley

The program offers free civil legal services to veterans and military families in Dutchess and Orange Counties. Service include:

• Public Benefits & Income Stabilization
• Housing, Eviction, & Foreclosure Prevention
• Domestic Violence & Family Law
• Disability Law
• Elder Law
• LGBTQ+ Law