“We’re like the mafia. Once you’re in, you’re in!” Project Stay is a life-long support network designed to support our graduates in their transition to self-sufficiency. It consists of several components crucial to job retention: regular group meetings, post-employment services (both job-related and personal), individual case management, financial incentives, and the opportunity for educational advancement. Project ...
Jacqueline's success story, in her own words. Walking along Prince Street near the corner of Mott last summer, you may have noticed a vibrant and engaging woman speaking to passersby about Use Your Head, ACE’s new resale boutique. That woman, Jacqueline, is one of our most recent Project Comeback graduates and we could not be prouder ...
A Message of Gratitude Like many of our Project Comeback graduates, Kelvin’s journey to us was a long one. He came to our program with a history of drug and alcohol abuse and a pattern of institutionalization for possession, selling and petty theft. Given the circumstances of his childhood, Kelvin got caught up early in a ...
Ha’Saan’s success story, in his own words. Originally I’m from Newburgh. It was a wild little town. It still is. I grew up in an alcoholic home. Most children, when you raise them, you try to raise them with happiness. My growing up was always filled with darkness, because I was witnessing negativity every day—the alcohol. I ...
Rodney’s success story, in his own words. I was born in Harlem, here in New York. I grew up in a dysfunctional family with three other siblings. I was made to feel less than them because I was the dark one; my siblings are half Hispanic. I got beat up. I grew up thinking I was ...
