NYC Early Intervention

Established in 1975, Greenhope Services for Women is a residential treatment center for formerly incarcerated women. It offers domestic violence intervention, nutritional counseling, and housing and financial assistance services. The organization also provides a parole program that focuses on the re-entry of parolee women into society. It specializes in parenting skills development, substance abuse education and counseling services. Greenhope Services for Women conducts a variety of workshops, empowerment lectures, and vocational, educational and recreational activities. It also offers family and individual therapies, as well as transitional and independent living services. Additionally, the organization provides a prevention program that emphasizes drug and alcohol addiction recovery, substance abuse counseling, and medical and legal assistance services. Greenhope Services for Women maintains an office in New York.

Queens County is one of 62 counties in New York. Queens County is better known as Queens, one of the five boroughs of New York City. The estimated population in 2004 was 2,237,216. This was an increase of 35 per cent from the 2000 census. The county was named for Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II. It is the ninth largest country in the nation (by population), and ranked first in the state for population growth during the 1990 s. Listed places in Queens County include: airports (2), archives (1), cemeteries (29), colleges (5), communities (71), historic districts (4), hotels (30), libraries (62) and museums (4). Communities in Queens County include Arverne, Astoria, Auburndale, Bayside, Beechhurst, Bellaire, Belle Harbor, Bellerose, Blissville and Breezy Point.