East Side House Settlement

Based on the success of Mott Haven Village Prep and Bronx Haven High School, East Side House has three new programs in partnership with the New York City Department of Education that opened in September. Our program at the Smith Campus Young Adult Borough Center provides academic intervention, career readiness training, and college preparation in the evening for 250 students entering their fifth year of high school. The High School for Excellence and Innovation, the first partnership for East Side House outside of the Bronx, is an attendance improvement/drop-out prevention program serving overage and under-credited students coming out of middle school. Students are placed on a path to earn their high school diploma and enter into post-secondary education. East Side House's program with New Explorers High School, also an attendance improvement/drop-out prevention program, will serve 50 ninth and tenth grade students who have had between 20 and 75 absences in their previous school year. With counseling services, parental engagement, and academic intervention, students will earn enough credits to be promoted to the next grade level and progress through high school toward graduation.


Corning Museum of Glass's "You Design It/We Make It" class with students in East Side House programs featured on ABC news; sculptures exhibited at Winter Antiques Show:

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/video?id=6593867

Glass sculptures designed by Mott Haven Village Preparatory High School students Georlen Arzu and Katherine Perez (left) and Bronx Haven High School student Jonathan Malave (right) in a "You Design It/We Make It" class with Corning Museum of Glass master glassmaker Eric Goldschmidt. The sculptures were on view at the Park Avenue Armory during the 2009 Winter Antiques Show.

New York Times, January 6, 2009
For a Higher Score, No More Dropping Out

East Side House Settlement students with
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, 2008


"George Washington" giving a tour of the Winter Antiques Show to
East Side House Settlement students, 2006