Nachas Health and Family Network Inc. was founded in 1990 to address the gaps in access to service for immigrants and underserved populations. Nachas Health and Family Network is a community-based nonprofit organization. Our social services agency offers multilingual assistance for multiple low-income populations in New York to access the benefits and programs they are eligible to receive.

Families, Individuals & Seniors

Many low income families fall through the cracks and struggle with food insecurity and lack of healthcare. Nachas Health aims to eliminate language and access barriers for New York’s most vulnerable families. We make benefits easily accessible to those who need them, enrolling thousands of people annually in programs such as SNAP, Medicaid, Child Health Plus, Obamacare, and Medicare.  Our dedicated Certified Application Counselors are multi-lingual and culturally sensitive, eliminating the obstacles that hinder many people from reaching out for assistance.

Community Health Events

Nachas Health also coordinates annual community events to raise awareness about healthcare options and offer free monthly screenings for mammograms and pap smears that many people in the community cannot afford. Nachas hosts well-attended annual Women's Day of Health and popular Children’s Health Fairs that provide health education in a fun and exciting manner for women and children. Prevention and early detection are crucial in helping low income individuals maintain their health and continue contributing positively to their families and communities.

Holocaust Survivors

When Holocaust survivors started coming to receive desperately needed services, we saw the hardships they grappled with. unable to afford necessities like food and rent. Survivors are often lonely and isolated from the communities they have built up and inspired due to being homebound or frail. 

Nachas Health created an all-encompassing program dedicated to these brave Survivors. Nachas provides Survivors with hot meals every day and for Shabbos and Yom Tov. During the Covid pandemic, we hand delivered hot meals throughout the greater New York area daily to the doors of over 100 Survivors. For Yom Tov, Survivors also receive fresh flowers and a beautiful personalized poem along with their meals to make them feel less alone.

Nachas hosts and coordinates daily social and therapeutic groups for Survivors, who would often not step out of their home otherwise. Hosting dozens of Survivors per group, Survivors connect with new friends and thrive with groups like art therapy, music therapy, Rosh Chodesh parties, customized exercise groups designed with seniors in mind, and Parsha shiurim. We also host an annual retreat for Survivors in the Catskills mountains, something the Survivors eagerly look forward to all year to recharge and revitalize.

 

Some Survivors struggle to pay the rent on the apartments they have called home for decades, panic stricken they will be uprooted and forced out of their homes. Nachas raises money for low income Survivors to pay their rent and remain in the homes they feel safe and comfortable in. We also aid low income and poverty stricken Survivors in accessing resources that help meet their needs.

Survivors who are homebound receive regular phone calls and home care visits from dedicated Nachas employees, home cooked meals, and often get an in-home therapeutic music sessions with a singer.

Nachas coordinates concerts exclusively for Survivors, celebrating their courage and spirit through music. Singers like Avraham Fried, Yaakov Schwekey, Lipa, Benny Friedman, Shloime Dachs and the Berko Brothers have headlined the concerts for Survivors.  We host the concert in accessible venues so wheelchair bound and mobility restricted Survivors can join.  Survivors sing and dance in an incredibly uplifting day. The concerts lift their spirits immensely, encouraging them to reach out and connect to support throughout the rest of the year. Some Survivors were huddled in their homes in fear for years due to Covid fears and/or trauma, completely alone, and stepped out of their homes for the first time in years to attend a Nachas concert. The warmth and connection encourages many Survivors to become thriving members of the community again.

Nachas is here for anyone who needs us. If you are struggling and need resources and assistance, we will help you get a new lease on life.