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Agency Contacts

Children Assisted by Community Action Programs (CAP’s) – the various CAPS are satellites of the Westchester Community Opportunity Program (“WESTCOP”). The mission of the CAPS is to assist low income and at-risk populations with programs which foster self-sufficiency. CAP’s are staffed by the people living in the community it serves. CAPS promote the participation of residents of the community in planning and carrying out programs to help themselves.

Contact Phone/Fax Info on Delivery of Clothing

White Plains
Community Action Programs Beverly Stith or Walter Bowen
Phone
428-7030
428-7508
Fax
946-4395
Clothing should be delivered to: WPCAP

70 Ferris Avenue
White Plains, NY 10603
(Office in basement of Apt. Building-Buzz “CAP”)

Peekskill
Community Action Program
Mary Rainey or
Leila Coachman
Phone
739-1451

Fax
739-3472

Clothing should be delivered to PCAP
709 Main Street
Peekskill, NY 10566

Ossining
Community Action Program Doris Goodson Phone   923-6380
923-6381
Fax
923-1873
Clothing should be delivered to OCAP
2 Church Street
1^st Floor
Ossining, NY 10562

Carmel - Putnam Family & Community Services, Inc. - Although not under the WESTCOP umbrella, PF&C is a community-based program servicing Putnam.
Diane Henry
Phone
845-225-2700 x138

Fax
845-225-3207

Clothing should be delivered to PF&C
1808 Route Six
Carmel, NY 10512

Ossining – Interfaith Council for Action (IFCA) - Although not under the WESTCOP umbrella, IFCA is a community-based program servicing the community of Ossining. Valerie Canosa Phone
941-5252 (x13) Fax
941-7392 vcanosa@ifcany.org
Clothing should be delivered to IFCA
138 Spring Street
Ossining, NY 10562

Children Assisted by Westchester Jewish Community Services

Contact

Phone/Fax

Info on Delivery of Clothing

The WJCS is a non-sectarian, not-for-profit agency helping people of all ages cope with emotional, environmental, social, and educational challenges (to name a few). The WJCS serves 14,000 Westchester residents annually – a large percentage of them are children.

Meryl Lewis

Phone
761-0600x222

Fax
761-5859

mlewis@wjcs.com

Clothing should be delivered to
WJCS
845 North Broadway
White Plains, NY 10603

Children assisted by the Grandparents Coalition - a program of Westchester County Dept of Senior Programs & Services. These children are being raised by their Grandparents due to a variety of reasons

	Contact	Phone/Fax	Info on Delivery of Clothing
Grandparents Coalition (chiefly Yonkers & Mt. Vernon)	Corina DeLeon	Phone 813-6393 Fax 813-6295 cdd2@westchestergov.com	Clothing should be delivered to Westchester County Dept of Senior Programs & Services 9 South 1^st Avenue – 10^th Floor Mt. Vernon, NY 10550

Children Living in Family Shelters & Transitional Housing

	Contact	Phone/Fax	Info on Delivery of Clothing
West H.E.L.P. Mt. Vernon	Tony Laud Director of Operations	Phone 665-5401(x808)) tlaud@helpusa.org	Clothing should be delivered to West H.E.L.P. 240 Franklin Avenue Mt. Vernon, NY 10550
Coachman Family Center White Plains	Dawn Cousin	345-2800 x 30 Fax: 345-3139 dawn.cousin@Westhab.org	Call Dawn for arrangementss
HELP Homebase, a division of HELP USA 5 Boroughs Provides services to “post-shelter” clients	Marlene Lawrence	347-226-4540 x 105 mlawrence@helpusa.org	Clothing should be delivered too HELP Homebase 1780 Grand Concourse Bx, NY 10457

Children Attending Local School & Church

Contact

Phone/Fax

Info on Delivery of Clothing

F. Lee Jackson School & Calvary Baptist Church, White Plains.

K through third graders

Catherine Lederer

Phone 421-0075

Fax 993-9866

ridge150@aol.com (On subject line,, put “Back-to-School” )

Catherine will contact you regarding delivery.

Children assisted by the Dept. of Social Services in Peekskill – Preventive Services -– work with families with children at risk of children being placed in foster care

	Contact	Phone/Fax	Info on Delivery of Clothing
Westchester County Dept. of Social Services in Peekskill – Preventive Services	Latisha Booker	Phone 862-5157 Fax 862-5179 lbb7@westchestergov.com	Clothing should be delivered to Westchester County Dept. of Social Services 750 Washington Street Peekskill, NY 10566

Children Assisted by Family Services of Westchester – provides a broad range of social and mental health services to strengthen and support families.

	Contact	Phone/Fax	Info on Delivery of Clothing
Family Services of Westchester, Head Start – Head Start is a federally funded program. The kids we are helping are head start graduates on their way to Kindergarten and their siblings	Enid Forster	Phone 872-5289 Fax 948-0299 eforster@FSW.org	Clothing should be delivered to Family Services of Westchester – Head Start 1 Summit Avenue, 3^rd Floor White Plains, NY 10606

Please contact us for more information about ways you can help:
info@backtoschoolclothes.org

Phone 914-576-6053

Donations can be sent to:
Back-to-School Clothes for Kids, PO Box 304, White Plains, NY 10605