| Molnar New ED at Safe Space |
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| Written by Fred Scaglione |
| Monday, 01 June 2009 19:39 |
Christine Molnar has been named the new Executive Director at Safe Space, a 90-year old institution that works with New York City’s at-risk youth and families to strengthen families and prevent foster care placement. Molnar comes to Safe Space from the Community Service Society of New York (CSS), where she most recently served as Vice President for Policy, Advocacy and Strategy during her 14-year tenure.Molnar will succeed Lilliam Barrios-Paoli who led Safe Space for over four years and was recently appointed by Mayor Bloomberg as the Commissioner of the Department of Aging. Over the past four months Eric Brettschneider has been the agency’s Interim Executive Director. Molnar’s professional career spans a 20–year commitment to advancing economic and social justice policies and programs. She is nationally recognized for her work designing community health outreach programs to help uninsured and publicly-insured people access medical care and insurance. At CSS, Molnar was responsible for agency-wide strategy and planning, including the design of the agency’s strategic realignment to focus on economic security, increasing employment opportunities for those with limited education and work histories, and the creation of a campaign for affordable quality health care for New York’s working families. In 1998, she founded CSS’s Managed Care Consumer Assistance Program, a network of 28 community-based organizations that has provided assistance with accessing health services to over 100,000 New Yorkers throughout the five boroughs. “Ms. Molnar brings an extremely important range of experience and expertise to Safe Space,” said Jason Lee, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Safe Space. “I am excited to take up the challenge of leading Safe Space and can think of no better time to join such a critically important organization,” said Molnar. “My attention will be on the families and youth who rely on Safe Space; they are on the front lines of the current economic downturn, facing incredible stress due to increasingly limited resources, growing unemployment and underemployment, and the rising costs of basic necessities like food and housing.” Safe Space serves nearly 10,000 children, youth and their families in Queens and Manhattan through an integrated system of progressive programming: Children and Family Services, Young Adult Services and Community Health Services. Within its continuum of care, Safe Space provides counseling, education and support services. Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites           |
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