Meet our Senior Staff
Meet the Senior Staff:
Rev. Msgr. Robert M. Harris
President & Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Henry J. Floyd
Vice President & Senior Managing Director, Associate Executive Director, Family Foster Care, Adoption & Allied Services
Christopher Jones
Managing Director and Associate Executive Director, Youth Residential Services
Janice Saunders-Ashton
Managing Director and Associate Executive Director, Developmentally Disabled Services
Jeffrey Benenati
Managing Director of Finance & Fiscal Affairs
Mary Louise Morgan
Managing Director of Resource Advancement
Arthur E. Cunn
Managing Director of Properties & Communication Services
Mark S. Kanter
Managing Director of Human Resources
Dr. Matthew L. Warner
Managing Director of Behavioral Health Services
William Sabado
Deputy Executive Director
SVS Annual Gala
"Save The Date" for next year's Dinner, which will be held on Monday, November 22, 2010 at the Waldorf=Astoria.
For further information, please call Mary Louise Morgan at: 718.422.2255
Brandy's Story
I feel so blessed to be a part of the St. Vincent's family. They took me in when I was 14 years old. I had to leave home because both my parents were addicted to drugs. Everyone at St. Vincent’s opened their hearts to me and made me feel like part of the family right away.
SVS gave me a tremendous gift when they helped me find a foster mother who is one of the most remarkable women I have ever known. She believes in me and helps me grow. And now that I'm older, she has even supported me in reaching out to my parents and brothers to rebuild those important family relationships.
When I left home as a young teenager, I didn't know where I would end up. But thanks to SVS, I'm in college and on my way to a bright future. Thanks to SVS, I control my own future and I can write my own ticket.
Thank you for supporting SVS and young people like me.
Brandy
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Heckscher Funding Supports Major Study of SVS Graduates
With funding from The Heckscher Foundation for Children, SVS engaged Philliber Research Associates, one of the top youth development research organizations in the country, to study what happens to SVS youth after they age out of the foster care system. The results were dramatically positive, showing that SVS American Dream graduates out-performed both other children of foster care and a random sample of American youth across a wide range of criteria.
Read more about Philliber Research Associates Study
American Dream Youth Excel
Compared to other foster care youth, SVS American Dream graduates:
- Have more education
- Are more likely to be in school currently; and have taken out fewer loans to make this possible
- Are less likely to have ever been homeless
- Work more hours, earn higher wages, have more benefits, and when unemployed are more likely to want and look for work
- Are more likely to have both medical and dental insurance
- Are less likely to be dependent on Medicaid
- Are more likely to own their own homes
- Are more likely to have savings and/or checking accounts
- Are generally more satisfied and more optimistic about the future.
