Second Start lists 6 reentry programs based in Staten Island, from housing and legal aid to jobs and healthcare, plus 317 citywide services that also serve Staten Island residents.
Staten Island has only a few local listings, so most help comes from citywide services; ask whether they offer phone or video appointments to save the ferry trip.
6 local services
Offers free, confidential rapid HIV testing, hepatitis B and C screening, health assessments, and case management, with specific support for people on parole or reentering the community. Also runs alternative-to-incarceration and diversion programs, trauma-informed care, a food pantry, Narcan training, and a medically supervised outpatient program.
Free legal and social work help for parents contacted by ACS, aiming to keep children at home; also represents youth 7-17 facing criminal charges.
Overnight chairs (no beds) for single adults, referrals to mental health, substance use, legal and benefits services, plus soup kitchens and food pantries.
A program for fathers offering a 10-week fatherhood engagement workshop series, with case managers who help navigate child support or public benefits, find and sustain employment, arrange child visitation, and provide anger management and Abusive Partner Intervention Program support.
Emergency food, housing help, immigration services and case management; serves all faiths.
Provides a range of programs for both young people and adults impacted by the criminal legal system. Services include individual counseling, psychoeducational group programming, youth leadership, mentorship programming, and workforce development training.
These serve people from every borough, often by phone, online or at more than one office.
Online tools and peer support for people facing housing discrimination because they use rental vouchers (CityFHEPS, Section 8, FHEPS, HASA); helps document and report discrimination and connects to agencies.
Offers free one-on-one help finding and using health insurance and care, including resolving medical billing and debt problems, disputing coverage denials, accessing hospital and prescription financial assistance programs, and understanding health insurance tax credit forms.
Information for tenants, landlords and advocates: housing court procedures, landlord-tenant rules, code violations, referrals to free legal help and back-rent assistance.
Online directory of free legal services across New York with plain-language rights information, court info, and live chat Mon-Thu 9am-9pm.
Free civil legal services in housing, benefits and immigration, plus representation for conviction-history employment discrimination.
Provides free legal assistance to low-income New Yorkers on housing, civil rights, disability rights, aging rights, bankruptcy, tax, consumer, employment, government benefits, and kinship care matters, including advice, counsel, and representation to help people with past criminal records re-enter the workforce.
Helps New Yorkers and people traveling to New York State access abortion care through financial assistance, case management, and referrals to legal, counseling, and community resources. A volunteer case manager returns calls or emails within 48 hours, and information is kept confidential.
Help with child support orders, license suspensions, lowering or eliminating child support debt owed to the government, paternity, DNA testing, mediation, and free financial counseling.
Free ESOL, ABE and English-for-Work classes in 10-week cycles.
Provides free legal services to people incarcerated in NYS DOCCS prisons on matters including mental health and medical care, discrimination, disciplinary hearings, excessive force, conditions of confinement, sentence calculation, and immigration. A Pre-Release and Re-Entry Program (PREP) offers counseling and planning for people within 6-18 months of release, and an immigration unit represents noncitizens in removal proceedings. Case acceptance is decided individually and does not extend to county, federal, or out-of-state facilities.
Free legal representation and advice on criminal, civil and juvenile issues: policing, bail, benefits, housing, immigration, parole, sealing and more.
Screens eligibility and guides applications for 40+ city, state and federal benefits (food, cash, housing, internet, childcare).
