Our Partners and Funding

Vanguard High School is a community of learners committed to cultivating the resources necessary to become literate, articulate, analytical, reflective and empathetic citizens. Respect for self and others is the motivating force toward achieving our goal of becoming socially productive, useful and responsible members of society.

Learning through the arts, technology, community participation, and innovation. Harlem Renaissance High School is an intimate and well-organized community where students develop their expertise. We are an inclusive setting for young adults who have not previously been successful at earning credits toward graduation.

Hunter College, located in the heart of Manhattan, is the largest college in the City University of New York (CUNY). Founded in 1870, it is also one of the oldest public colleges in the country. More than 23,000 students currently attend Hunter, pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees in more than 170 areas of study.

The HCLPP collaborates with Hunter College, including the departments of: Admissions, Career Services, and the Technology Resource Center

The Columbia University School of Social Work provides graduate interns that provide clinical counseling, group facilitation and workshops to our youth during the school day.

Since its establishment in 1968 as the first primary care program in New York specifically created for the health needs of teens, the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center (MSAHC) has grown to become a model of excellence in adolescent health care nationally and worldwide. We’ve broadened our vision to match the needs of the Center’s steadily rising number of young people we serve, growing from 900 in 1971 to more than 12,000 in 2012.

REACT to FILM engages in research and curriculum development for Middle and High Schools, providing them with educational resources and support for courses on social issues through documentary films. The curricular resources allow schools to educate on a spectrum of social ailments from the psychosocial effects of war to nutrition, from gun policy to gender inequity, from conflict mediation to homelessness. Leveraging the best issue-based filmmaking to promote social responsibility and spark civic engagement, REACT to FILM is a platform of educational programs in high schools and colleges.