ABOUT US

 

Homecrest Community Services, Inc. (HCS) is a non-profit, IRS 501C(3) corporation which provides community-based, multi-social, services for senior citizens, immigrants, children and families living in southern Brooklyn. HCS was established in 1997 as a grass-roots effort by local residents to help meet the urgent need for social, health, public benefit and other essential services by the rapidly growing, and greatly underserved, Asian-American population who moved to Sheepshead Bay within the past decades. In 2004, HCS opened a satellite senior Citizens center in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn which is the first Asian-sponsored senior center of its kind in the area. The HCS membership has grown from 300 members in 1997 to over 3000, members in 2007, most of whom are Chinese-Americans who immigrated to the U.S. from China, Hong Kong, Vietnam and other southeast Asian countries. The HCS centers are non-denominational and open to all seniors 60 years or older, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity or other characteristic.

 

HCS leases spaces in the Homecrest Presbyterian Church located at 1413 Avenue T, Brooklyn, NY 11229 where it houses its main office and a Senior and Community Center. The Senior Center serves an average of 100 seniors per day. The satellite Bensonhurst Senior Center is located at 7907 New Utrecht Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11214. Both sites are easily accessible by public transportation and are handicapped-accessible.

 

The mission of Homecrest Community Services, Inc. is to improve the life of Asian-American, immigrant and otherwise disadvantaged persons and to help them achieve greater self-sufficiency. Bilingua (Chinese and English) and bicultural services are provided to help the targeted clientele overcome language, cultural, financial, social, health and other barriers to full participation in society.

 

HCS is a member of the Asian American Federation, the Federation of Protesta Welfare Agencies. Inc., Council of Senior Centers and Services of New York City, Inc. and the Greater Southern Brooklyn Health Coalition. It has linkage agreements with a wide variety of community-based organizations, health care providers and government agencies serving southern Brooklyn.

 

HCS is funded by the NYC Department of Youth and Community Development, NYC Department For the Aging, State of New York, New York City Council, Brooklyn Borough President, corporations, legislators, foundations and individuals.

 

For further information, please contact Ms. Karen Zhou, Executive Director, at telephone (718) 376-4036 or E-mail address: karenzhou@homecrest.org