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{"value"=>"2020-2022", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"2020/2022"}
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{"value"=>"Henry Street Settlement Hope & Resilience on the COVID Frontlines oral histories"}
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"50 computer files", "unit"=>"computer_files"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2.5 gigabytes", "unit"=>"gigabytes"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Manuscripts and Archives</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Henry Street Settlement, founded in 1893 by Lillian D. Wald (1867-1940), an American public health nurse and social worker, provides transitional and supportive housing, social services, arts, and healthcare programs to Lower East Side and New York City residents. The Henry Street Settlement Hope & Resilience on the COVID Frontlines oral histories contain twenty-five interview recordings and transcripts with Henry Street staff, program participants, and Lower East Side residents about Henry Street's response to the COVID-19 pandemic."}
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{"value"=>"English"}
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{"value"=>"Henry Street Settlement (New York, N.Y.)", "type"=>"corpname"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Henry Street Settlement was established in 1893 by American public health nurse and social worker Lillian D. Wald (1867-1940) in service to predominantly poor children and families on the Lower East Side of New York City. Henry Street Settlement continues Wald's work by providing transitional and supportive housing, social services, arts, and healthcare programs to Lower East Side and New York City residents.</p> <p>Henry Street programs and centers include Abrons Arts Center (a performing and visual arts center); Dale Jones Burch Neighborhood Center (social services screening; health insurance and food stamp enrollment; connections to financial and legal services; and a parenting support center); Urban Family Center and Helen's House (emergency housing for homeless families); Third Street Women's Residence (emergency housing for women with mental health issues); Third Street Supportive Housing (a permanent supportive housing residence); education, employment, health and wellness, athletics and enrichment, and older adult programs (including an Older Adult Center and Meals on Wheels program).</p> <p>The Henry Street Settlement Hope & Resilience on the COVID Frontlines oral history project was created to record Henry Street's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Henry Street public historian Katie Vogel directed the oral history project. The Henry Street Communications and Marketing team, led by Barbara Kancelbaum, advised closely on the project. Vogel, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at the New School associate professor Julie Beth Napolin, and National Public Radio <span class=\"title\">Life Kit</span> podcast producer Sylvie Douglis conducted twenty-seven interviews via Zoom and telephone from 2020 to 2022. Napolin also produced the project. Full transcripts of the oral histories were created after the interviews were completed.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Henry Street Settlement Hope & Resilience on the COVID Frontlines oral histories, dating from 2020 to 2022, consist of twenty-five audio recordings of interviews with Henry Street staff members, program participants, and Lower East Side residents, along with transcripts of each interview. Katie Vogel, Julie Beth Napolin, and Sylvie Douglis conducted three, fourteen, and eight interviews, respectively. The narrators' full job titles held at the time of the interviews, the name of the interviewer, and interview summaries are noted in the container list. Interview summaries are abbreviated adaptations of the original summaries written by the interviewers. The oral histories provide a broad illustration of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Henry Street Settlement staff and the Lower East Side community.</p> <p>During the interviews, Henry Street staff members were asked to state their full names and titles, their first experience with Henry Street, when they heard about the COVID-19 pandemic, their job duties before the pandemic, their job duties after the Henry Street pandemic pivot, work challenges associated with the pandemic, how systemic racism and police brutality overlapped with the COVID-19 pandemic, how Henry Street met community needs when COVID-19 hit New York City, how they would like their work at Henry Street to be remembered, and any concluding remarks about their experiences. In response, Henry Street staff members discussed the challenges of maintaining existing programs, transforming an after-school program into a food distribution center, and creating a helpline and an emergency cash assistance program.</p> <p>Residents and program participants were asked questions similar to those of Henry Street staff members. The interviews also cover how the narrators heard about Henry Street, their experiences participating in Henry Street's programs and services, and how those services and programs changed during the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>Alphabetical by last name.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Donated by David Garza in 2023.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by <span class=\"name\">Amy Lau</span> in <span class=\"date\">2025</span>.</p>"}
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2020
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2020
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2022
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2020
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2022
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2.5 gigabytes (50 computer files)
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{"value"=>"Henry Street Settlement Hope & Resilience on the COVID Frontlines oral histories, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library"}