2 results for month: 10/2015

Dancing (for Health) In The Streets of Harlem

We had a great time on Saturday celebrating our new health center, The Nest, with an afternoon block party. Long-time residents of the block joined friends from all over the city to welcome The Nest. The event was a huge success. Over 300 people attended, we made new connections with 150 community members with whom we will follow-up to connect to care, and we already scheduled over 50 new appointments. But even more importantly, we had a lot of fun. Since our founding, Harlem United has been dedicated to making sure hard-to-reach people and underserved communities have access to high-quality healthcare that is attentive to the whole person. The ...

Honoring our co-founder Father John McNeill

We lost a great one. Father John McNeill, S.J. was an openly gay moral theologian, psychotherapist and Jesuit priest, who helped to found the Upper Room AIDS Ministry—which later became Harlem United. At the height of the AIDS epidemic in New York City, many agencies were turning away those who needed care the most. That just wouldn’t do for Fr. McNeil and the others who founded the Upper Room AIDS Ministry. They believed that we are in this together and set out to offer hope, health, and healing to Harlem and beyond. Fr. John McNeill passed away late last month at the age of 90 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. We celebrate his life and legacy—...