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layout: organization
category: local

title: Bridge to Youth
impact_area: Children
keywords: 
  - Children in Need
  - The Disabled
  - Education
location_services: Brooklyn
location_offices: Brooklyn
website: www.Bridgetoyouthinc.org.

description: |
  We have a Sunday Recreation program for children with developemental disabilities.  We have bowling, adaptive physical ed., art and music therapy and cooking through literature.
mission: |
  Bridge to Youth is a community-based not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to develop programs to serve the social, physical, and cultural needs of young people and their families. Its programs are intended for, but not limited to, the youth of the borough of Brooklyn.

cash_grants: yes
grants: 
  - |
    The program is in constant need of supplies for the adaptive physical ed. program, $100.00 would buy 5 soccer balls .
  - |
    The program is in constant need of bowling balls to help the younger children learn to ball and to learn turn taking, $500.00 would buy 8 bowling balls.
service_opp: yes
services: 
  - |
    The program is run on a totally volunteer basis, all volunteers could donate their time to be a one to one assistant to any of the disabled children.
  - |
    We sponsor many community service programs at our organization, we the volunteers receive credit for working with any of our disabled children during their activities.

learn: 
  - Give students a tour of our office and facilities
  - Make a presentation about our organization
  - Speak over the phone about our work
cont_relationship: 
  - Help students develop a community service project with us
  - Attend an in-school Check Award Assembly if we receive a grant
  - Help students tell local newspapers and media about their grant and/or project with us
  - Educate the school by leading a workshop
  - Collect pennies during the Penny Harvest next fall

salutation: Mrs.
first_name: Susan
last_name: Esposito
title_contact_person: President

city: Brooklyn
state: NY
address: |
  1258 65th Street  
  Brooklyn NY 11219
lat: 40.626529
lng: -74.002426
phone: 347-836-9171
ext: 
fax: 
email: mrssueespo@hotmail.com
preferred_contact: email
contact_person_intro: |
  I, Susan Esposito am a parent of two boys with Autism.  I have been involved in this organization for five years and have met and helped many families with children with developmental disabilities.  It gives me great pleasure to offer this proram to them.
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We have a Sunday Recreation program for children with developemental disabilities.  We have bowling, adaptive physical ed., art and music therapy and cooking through literature.