About Us

We believe that individuals deserve Compassionate Trusted Innovative care that respects their life experiences.

Our unique approach is rooted in our longstanding work with Holocaust survivors, giving us the experience and understanding to meet every challenge. Because every person deserves to age with dignity and independence.

Today, we provide affordable housing, home care, and community-based services to more than 25,000 aging adults.

Our 89-year legacy caring for Holocaust survivors fuels how we serve every community today, with deep respect, cultural understanding, and enduring compassion.

OUR VALUES

Welcome and Include All

We appreciate and include the individual strengths of everyone in our community, meeting them where they are. Each person’s lived experience makes us stronger collaborators, and more attuned to other perspectives that ultimately help us better serve our mission.

Build Trust, Always​

Trust is the foundation of all that we do. We approach each other, and our community, with integrity and honesty, furthering the reach of this trust with each action we take every day.

Think Big

We guard the independence of and enrich the quality of life for New Yorkers by thinking big. We leverage our time-tested expertise to boldly try new, innovative solutions that meet the ever-changing needs of our community.

Balance Head and Heart​

We provide the highest quality care to our clients with time-tested efficiency and expertise, but we do so while holding the dignity of those we serve in the highest regard.

Connect with Compassion

We approach everyone in our community with empathy, respect, and compassion. We believe healthier communities are built on the care we give to each other.

OUR MISSION

Selfhelp is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to maintaining the independence and dignity of seniors and at-risk populations through a spectrum of housing, home health care, and social services and will lead in applying new methods and technologies to address changing needs of its community. Selfhelp will continue to serve as the “last surviving relative” to its historic constituency, victims of Nazi persecution.

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Selfhelp Map 2024

Selfhelp Headquarters

Adult Protective Services

Community Guardianship

Home Care

Home Care Training

Virtual Senior Center

Adult Protective Services

Community Guardianship

Holocaust Survivor Programs

Home Care

Home Care Training

Selfhelp Housing in Development

Selfhelp Housing with Services

Social Services Onsite

Virtual Senior Center

Adult Protective Services

Case Management

Community Guardianship

Holocaust Survivor Programs

Home Care

Home Care Training

NORCs

NY Connects

Older Adult Centers

Selfhelp Housing in Development

Selfhelp Housing with Services

Virtual Senior Center

Case Management

NY Connects

Older Adult Centers

Selfhelp Housing in Development

Selfhelp Housing with Services

Adult Protective Services

Case Management

Community Guardianship

Holocaust Survivor Programs

Home Care

Home Care Training

NORCs

Older Adult Centers

Selfhelp Housing with Services

Social Services Onsite

Virtual Senior Center

Adult Protective Services

Community Guardianship

Selfhelp Housing with Services

Virtual Senior Center

Holocaust Survivor Programs

Home Care

Home Care Training

Selfhelp Housing with Services

Virtual Senior Center

Selfhelp Housing with Services

Virtual Senior Center

OUR HISTORY

OUR LEADERSHIP

OUR REPORTS

Annual Reports: 202420232022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017

Financial Statements

Selfhelp Community Services

Selfhelp Community Services Foundation

Ways to Give

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