Services for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and their children
Hour Children operates a comprehensive social-services organization serving women with incarceration experience and their families across Long Island City. The hiring mix—10 support roles, 8 healthcare positions, and clinical/mental health directors—reflects an organization scaling direct care delivery. Active projects center on trauma-informed programming, parenting education, and reunification, while pain points cluster around coordinating fragmented service networks and navigating funding constraints typical of mission-driven nonprofits.
Notable leadership hires: Clinical Director, Mental Health Services Director
Hour Children, founded over 25 years ago, works to break cycles of intergenerational incarceration by providing comprehensive services to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and their children. Services span mental health support, trauma-informed group programming, parenting education, childcare, and reunification assistance. The organization operates with 11–50 staff and is currently hiring across support, healthcare, operations, and finance roles, with recent focus on clinical and mental health leadership positions. Core operational challenges include coordinating care across multiple providers, securing additional funding, and helping families navigate housing barriers and public benefits systems.
Hour Children helps incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and their children rejoin their communities, reunify with families, and build independent lives. The organization's vision is to end intergenerational incarceration cycles.
Services include trauma-informed group programming, parenting education, childcare, mental health support, reunification assistance, and help navigating public benefits. Current projects focus on gender-responsive trauma programming and process redesign for service delivery.
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