ACS Field Office
350 St. Marks Place, 3rd Floor
Staten Island, NY 10301
Telephone: (718) 720-2833
Contact: Director- Robyn Brown (718) 720-2833;
IRT Coordinator - Christopher Galligan (718) 720-2833
District Attorney's Office - Crime Victims Assistance Unit
130 Stuyvesant Place
Staten Island, NY 10301
Telephone: (718) 876-6300 - After hours: (718) 556-7043
Services Offered: Legal assistance, referrals and interpreters are available.
Contact: Victim's Advocate - Mary Santaromita (718) 556-7144
mary.santaromita@rcda.nyc.gov
Hours: Monday - Friday: 9am - 5pm
Clients Served: Available to all ages.
Fees: No Fee.
Safe Horizon Staten Island Family Court Program
30 Bay Street, 5th Floor
Staten Island, NY 10301
Telephone: (718) 447-3820 — Hotline: (800) 621-5673
Services Offered: Counseling and general orientation about courtroom procedures.
Contact: Ann Paterson
Clients Served: Men and women involved in domestic violence court cases.
Fees: No fees
Languages: Spanish
Family Resources Program (Staten Island Mental Health)
14 Slosson Terrace
Staten Island, New York 10301
Telephone: (718) 720-6727
Fax: (718) 720-0326
Services Offered: Family counseling, child abuse and neglect prevention program.
Contact: Director - Clarisse Domingo; Family Support - Mike Zampella; Teen Center
Hours: Monday, Thursday: 9am-9pm; Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 9am-5pm
Clients Served: Available to Staten Island residents up to 16 years old.
Fees: Insurance accepted.
Languages: Spanish
Staten Island Peer Advocacy Center
777 Seaview Ave.
Building 9, Room 233
Staten Island, NY 10305
Telephone: (718) 667-1609
Fax: (718) 667-5018
Services Offered: Advocacy, empowerment, recovery, and self-help groups, assistance with entitlements, SSI, SSD, Medicaid, and Medicare, supportive housing, legal, vocational, and educational issues.
Fee: no fee
South Shore Program
3974 Amboy Road, Suite 302
Staten Island, NY 10308
Telephone: (718) 984-5050
Services Offered: Comprehensive diagnostic treatment services
Contact: Director - Geraldine Matthews, CSW
Hours: Monday, Thursday: 9am - 9pm; Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 9am - 5pm
Clients Served: Services for children up to 16-years-old and their families.
Fees: Sliding scale fee; Medicaid and some third party insurance are accepted.
Seamen's Society for Children and Families
50 Bay Street
Staten Island, NY 10301
Telephone: (718) 447-7740
Fax: (718) 720-2321
Website: www.roots-wings.org
Services Offered: Counseling, family support programs, foster care and adoption.
Contact: Roseanna Lavelle
Hours: Monday - Friday: 9am - 4:45pm
Staten Island Child Advocacy Center
280 Richmond Terrace
Staten Island, NY 10301
Telephone: (718) 556-0844
Fax: (718) 556-3569
Services Offered: Investigates child physical and sexual abuse allegations in a child friendly environment.
Contact: Senior Director; Gena Diacomanolis (718) 556-0845; Administrative Coordinator - Nancy Roman-Fair (718) 273-8405
Hours: Monday - Friday: 9am - 5pm; Weekdays by appointments for non-emergency sexual abuse for children under 17.
Fee: **Must Be Referred By ACS, Court, or Special Victims** No fee.
Languages: Spanish
AMT Children of Hope Safe Haven Programs
1490 Franklin Ave.
Mineola, NY 11501
Telephone: (516) 781-3511
Fax: (516) 781-0691
Website: www.amtchildrenofhope.com
Helpline: (877) 796-HOPE(4673)
Services Offered: Secret Safe Haven provides a safe place for a mother to leave her newborn child and not be charged with a crime. The child must be no older than five days old and all hospital emergency rooms, Police Stations, and Community Firehouses are considered safe havens.
Contact: Timothy Jaccard Founder and President
CASA Programs (there is no CASA program specifically for SI, as family court only occurs there two or three times a week)
50 Broadway, at Exchange Place, 31st Floor
New York, NY 10004
Telephone: (212) 334-4010
Fax: 212-334-4018
Website: http://www.casa-nyc.org/
Languages: English and Spanish
Services Offered: The program provides a specially trained and supervised community volunteer which is appointed by the Family Court judge. CASAs are provided to help secure safe and permanent homes for abused and neglected children by investigating and monitoring cases involving children in foster care.
Contact: Pamela O'Leary, Program Director, Ext. 129
Hours: Monday - Friday 9am-5pm
Clients: Children: newborns to aged 21 involved in family court system.
Fees: No fee.