What is the Union Settlement?
Union Settlement is one of the oldest settlement houses in New York City, providing community-based services and programs that support the immigrant and low-income residents of East Harlem since 1895. It is East Harlem’s largest social service agency and serves 10,000 people annually through programs including early childhood education, youth services, senior services, adult education, mental health, small business development and community outreach.
When is Union Settlement in operation?
Union Settlement celebrated its 125th year in operation in 2020. In wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Union Settlement helped provide vaccination services to many East Harlem residents.
What is settlement health and medical services?
With more recent history, Settlement Health and Medical Services, part of a 1974 federal initiative, provided primary health care to East Harlem residents in a free-standing clinic. The program is separately incorporated in 1976. In 1992, Union Settlement was selected to serve as the lead agency of the East Harlem HIV Care Network, a coalition of over 100 social and health service agencies that address issues of AIDS. Network members serve people who are HIV positive or are living with HIV/AIDS, and their relatives and partners
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Overview
Establishment
Union Settlement was founded in 1895 by members of the Union Theological Seminary Alumni Club. After visiting Toynbee Hall in London, and inspired by the example of Hull House in Chicago, the alumni decided to create a settlement house in the area of Manhattan enclosed on the north and south by East 96th and 110th Streets and on the east and west by the East River and Central Park. …
History
In 1895 Union Settlement opened at 202 E. 96th Street, on the second floor of a tenement building. Union Theological Seminary student William E. McCord was appointed its first "headworker" (as its directors were known). It moved twice in 1895 (210 E. 104th Street and 237 E. 104th Street). Several, years later, in 1899 Morris K. Jesup purchased five houses (235-243 E. 104th Street) for the Settle…
Programs
Union Settlement provides a variety of community and individual services to the community in East Harlem, including:
• Early childhood services: six childcare/Head Start centers and Family Childcare Network, pediatric asthma initiative—serving one-sixth of all childcare services in East Harlem.
• Youth services: after-school and summer programs, computer classes, tutoring, sexual literacy instructi…
Notable board members
• Reginald Auchincloss (1916-1921), member of prominent Auchincloss family.
• Kate Buford (1999-Present), American author and biographer.
• Henry Sloane Coffin (1941-1954), former president of the Union Theological Seminary.
External links
• Official website
• A timeline of Union Settlement’s history and historic photographs
• "Union Settlement Association records, 1896-1995". www.columbia.edu. A guide to archive holdings at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University, with a "Biographical Note" about Union Settlement's history.