Help Support the Managed Care Consumer Assistance Program

In the FY11 City budget released on June 29, 2010, the Managed Care Consumer Assistance Program (MCCAP) funding was eliminated.  As a result, New York will lose the matching federal funding and low-income New Yorkers will lose their primary source of information and assistance in obtaining, utilizing, and maintaining health insurance. The West Side Campaign [...]

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Attention Parents!!

By Rebecca Sparks, MS, RD,  Community Nutrition Educator and Adjunct Professor at NYU, WSCAH Board Member Attention to all those concerned for our future generations! Time for action What the heck is CNR?  Let’s guess… Community Not Ready or City News Report? What it does stand for is Child Nutrition Reauthorization. Every five years the [...]

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WSCAH finds solutions beyond food

Marisol came to us for the first time in July 2008. On that visit, she told her counselor she felt depressed and overwhelmed by her situation. Originally from the Dominican Republic, Marisol is a U.S. resident with two children born here. She was out of work and living in a friend’s apartment because she had [...]

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How We Help. . .

Ana, a single mother, lives in a rental apartment in Manhattan with her two children aged ten and fifteen. She turned to WSCAH when her Medicaid benefits stopped as a result of going off public assistance. Because Ana has a thyroid condition and one of her children requires mental health care, the family still needs [...]

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