Edwin Gould Academy Alumni Services

Planned Parenthood is coming to EGA twice this month! First up is Healthy Relationships on 7/10. Please let youth in the area, ages 11-24, know about this great opportunity!

Hostos College has one more open house for their Continuing Education and Workforce Development programs TOMORROW June 1st.

Check out the flyer and link: http://www.hostos.cuny.edu/Administrative-Offices/Continuing-Education-Department

Building on the success of 2016, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office brings Begin Again to Bedford-Stuyvesant this April to give Brooklyn residents an opportunity to deal with summonses for low-level offenses quickly and easily right in their community.

Still in the area? Come check out this Anti-Violence Cookout "Peace is Possible" in East Harlem THIS Saturday!

New York Drives has extended it's deadline to March 16th.

Eligibility requirements are as follows:
Must be at least 18+ for Made in NY & Brooklyn Networks
Must be at least 21+for Brooklyn Woods
NYC resident
Legally eligible to work in the US
Low income, unemployed or underemployed
Must be able to pass a drug test
Must have full time availability Monday- Friday 9am -5pm
Must NOT have had a Driver’s License previously
*Priority given to NYCHA residents that live in Red Hook, Gowanus and Brownsville neighborhoods.

For more info on the NY Drives program:
http://www.bwiny.org/new-york-drives/overview/

New York Drives | Overview | Brooklyn Workforce Innovations New York Drives represents the first step on a path to a career for New Yorkers who need a driver’s license to access training and a job.

Hello EGA Alumni! Do you or someone you know work in social services? Good Shepherd Services, who now runs EGA, is having a job fair this spring. Check out the poster for more info!

Independent Living Counselor: Arren Wilson. Before working at the Academy, he worked as a Program Director and Training Facilitator; in After School and Summer Camp programs throughout NYC. He graduated from CUNY City College with a Bachelor's degree in Sociology. He is now working on his first Master's degree in Social Work at CUNY Hunter College.
Arren is also a Professional DJ. He uses his combined career knowledge of Social Work and Entertainment to teach residents how to enter the world of deejaying as a career/hobby in one of his current activities called "The Art of Deejaying".
Arren brings his love for music; art & entertainment; along with his passion for helping others, to develop workshops & activities that help our young people learn skills for living healthy, happy, fulfilling and positive lives.

Eshawn Hall joined EGA in November of 2015 having a 15 year history in non for profit housing. Eshawn has worked with NYC Department of Homeless Services in contracted shelter to provide families with permanent housing, at one point having the #1 shelter in the city based on move outs and employed residents. Eshawn’s door is always open, as he enjoys helping people and meeting with residents to address their specific concern. He has a Master’s Degree in Public Administration and his undergrad is in Criminal Justice from South Carolina State University.

He grew up in NYCHA public housing and remains involved in community based activities and events to help benefit the current residents and their children.

In his off time he enjoys listening to music and reading.

Cecelia Catapano has been the office manager for the Edwin Gould Academy since 2010. She comes from both a profit and nonprofit background, however her passion lies in helping others succeed, a virtue she identifies with non-profit work. Cecelia is essential in ensuring all administrative responsibilities of the organization are achieved. In the future Cecilia hopes to continue to engage with the residents of the Edwin Gould Academy, and hopes to take an ever larger interactive role within the program and with participants.

Michael McAllister is the Life Coach and Therapist at EGA. In his early days, Michael worked in public housing and later with disabled adolescents in residential and community care. Despite extensive work with adults and young people, Michael’s home planet is mental health and substance abuse treatment. He has worked for many years as a program director and leader of a treatment advocacy and provider coalition, and also served as Director of Substance Abuse Policy and Planning for ACS. In addition to private practice as a psychotherapist, Michael was an adjunct faculty of the State University of NY for 10 years, teaching university courses for students incarcerated in State prisons.

Michael has enjoyed the opportunity to come out of semi-retirement in recent years, working with church outreach and homeless services, and working as a senior practitioner in Great Britain for a year, in a youth and family services agency. He is grateful for the chance to work as a life coach and therapist with young adults here at EGA/GSS and believes our community has enabled him to learn from their journeys, as he works to be helpful to all.

This beautiful mural was painted by a current resident of EGA, and resides in the foyer of the building.

Our spacious backyard includes patio seating, a grill for EGA BBQs, and an open area that can be used to play ball with the children in the building.