The highest rate of cancer in the Bronx is breast cancer. The New York Cancer Registry recorded from 2015-2019 that 947 Bronx females tested positive for breast cancer and 186 Bronx women died of breast cancer. To help increase breast cancer awareness and increase annual testing,...
Manhattan, NY Assistance: Housing Advocacy, Socialization/Recreational Linda Jamison is a recent addition to the Step Up for Better Living family. In her short time with the agency, Ms. Jamison has received assistance with advocacy for rent adjustment and subsidy recertification. Ms. Jamison has also been participating in...
Assistance: Case Management, Housing Advocacy, Recreational and Food Pantry Services Charlene Daughtrey has been a client with Step Up for Better Living since 2010. Ms. Daughtrey has been an active participant in SUBL events such as our past thanksgiving food pantry gift card events, Winter coat...
Ms. Q.A. is a member of our senior client group and has been a client of SUBL since 2020. She has mainly received senior services such as help with filling out applications...
There’s something so warm and welcoming about a tea party. Step UP celebrated it’s1st Annual Ladies Tea Party on March 31 in honor of Women’s History Month. Our theme was vintage. We wore our Sunday best, our favorite hat and remembered to stick out our...
March 24th was Step Up for Better Living Senior Appreciation-Game Day; a day devised to acknowledge and admire our seniors that fill out lives with joy. It was a day set aside for our much loved elders who deserve a day where they know their...
Sarah Morris has been a client with Step Up for Better Living since 2013. Ms. Morris has received assistance with advocacy for housing assistance...
Ms. YS moved from Pennsylvania to the Bronx recently and is a fairly new client to SUBL. Ms. YS was referred to SUBL through the Unite Us platform for assistance in submitting housing applications....
With the stressors and challenges of the Pandemic, and children at home with their parents for two years, Step Up for Better Living was able to bring “Joy and Blessings” to families that have children. Our Board member, Patricia Bartos, was able to obtain a...
On November 22ND and November 23RD, 2021, Step Up for Better Living hosted our annual Thanksgiving Western Beef Gift Card Give-Away event. Traditionally, Step Up for Better Living would host a sit down catered meal with families during the holiday season. Then at the end...