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College & Career Counselor
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EduMate NYC offers free, virtual tutoring for K-12 students, delivered by college and graduate students.
Virtual K-8 tutoring is available for free through Educove, founded by Stuyvesant High School students.
Khan Academy is website you can learn for free about math, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history, and more. All grades, all ages.
Free support
Counselors speak an array of languages
Support is available by calling 888-NYC-WELL (888-692-9355). Don’t wait. Connect with someone who will listen and help. Call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. 888-NYC-WELL (888-692-9355)
Bleuler Psychotherapy Center (718.275.6010)
Virtually all insurances accepted
Licensed programs and staff
Multilingual and culturally competent
Trauma-informed care
Tele-health walk-ins Monday through Friday (9AM - 3PM)
Youth-Based Support:
Northwell Health/ Zucker Hillside (718.470.3148)
Adolescent Urgent Care Center
Specifically for youth and young adults (ages 5-17)
Inpatient and Outpatient services offered
Mental health support
Substance abuse counseling
Intake Department: (718.297.8000)
Additional Therapy Support (BIPOC Mental Health Resources):
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Introduction to Entrepreneurship Adult & Continuing Education
Employment resources, food assistance, health and medical assistance, emotional support and spiritual care are available through Help Now NYC.
The Office of Community Schools’ Students in Temporary Housing Team now has a Benefits Navigator Tool – a simple way for families to access a wide array of publicly available benefits and resources from the DOE and other city agency partners.
INCLUDEnyc is a non-profit providing training and information for young people with any disability (age 0-26) in New York City, their families, and the professionals who support them. Learn more about organizations and programs supporting young people with disabilities. Connect with representatives via chat, audio, or video to learn more about Summer Camps, After School, Recreation, Athletics, Art, Dance, and Music Transition Services and College Supports and Services. More information here.
Get Your Child’s COVID-19 Test Results: Schools offering in-person teaching and learning are conducting weekly random testing of students and staff for COVID-19. If a student is tested, parents should hear results via text, email, or phone call within two to three days. Please make sure that families provide their schools with their most current contact information. Learn more about COVID-19 testing results here or at schools.nyc.gov/covidresults Flyers available in: Arabic, Bengali/Bengla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Urdu
What we know – Viruses constantly change through mutation, and new variants of a virus are expected to occur over time. Sometimes new variants emerge and disappear. Other times, new variants emerge and persist. Multiple variants of the virus that causes COVID-19 have been documented in the United States and globally during this pandemic.
What we do not know – Scientists are working to learn more about these variants, and more studies are needed to understand:
How widely these new variants have spread
How the new variants differ
How the disease caused by these new variants differs from the disease caused by other variants that are currently circulating
What it means– Public health officials are studying these variants quickly to learn more to control their spread. They want to understand whether the variants
Spread more easily from person to person
Cause milder or more severe disease in people
Are detected by currently available viral tests
Respond to medicines currently being used to treat people for COVID-19
Change the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines. There is no evidence that this is occurring, and most experts believe this is unlikely to occur because of the nature of the immune response to the virus.
Walk-in testing is available at no cost to you at these NYC Health + Hospitals locations.
Get a COVID-19 Test and an Antibody test to know if you have been exposed to the virus. – The tests are FREE, confidential and safe. More than 200 testing sites now open. Learn more.
COVID-19 Vaccine DOHMH has created a Vaccine web page to keep New Yorkers up to date.
Click to access: NYC.gov/COVIDVACCINE
The COVID-19 vaccine is now available to certain groups in NYC. Learn which groups are currently eligible for the vaccine, and which may be eligible next. Click to access: NYC.gov/COVIDVACCINEDISTRIBUTION
The data reflects the most recent information collected about people who have tested positive for COVID-19 in NYC. It is updated daily. Click to access COVID-19 DATA
There is increasing transmission of COVID-19 in New York City and widespread transmission across the United States and in many other countries. Read about: www.nyc.gov/COVID-19