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Peter G Young Foundation
Father Young created the Peter G Young Foundation to help the homeless. Often a person, for various reasons, is ineligible to receive medicaid or other public funding, and must fend for themselves.
That's where his foundation can help. Using 100% private donations, Father Young is able to feed and shelter the homeless for whom there is no other help available. Thousands of people have been helped through the years in getting their lives back on track and back into society, becoming law-abiding, productive citizens once more.
A New Beginning
We've all made mistakes. Been down on our luck. Suffered great loss. Life can be tough, even cruel. And a lone turn in the road can change things forever.
Life's trials aren't doled out in equal portions among a population. Rather, these challenges travel on chance winds and land in unlikely places. They tax the strong, but often overwhelm the less fortunate.
For more than four decades, the Peter G Young
Foundation has worked effectively to help decent people who have - for one sad
reason or another - succumbed to life's pressures. They end up poor, homeless,
addicted to drugs or alcohol, or even in prison. But the Foundation's
time-tested recovery paradigm has produced amazing results, helping to return
more than nine out of ten recipients to honest, productive lives.
Father Peter Young recognized long ago that recovery from addiction or other devastating conditions often requires a three-pronged approach to support: Treatment, Housing, and Employment. Thus, "T.H.E. Program" was born, described by Father Young as a three-legged stool requiring all three support components in order to stand.
Treatment means freeing a person from their addiction or disease so they can focus on building fulfilling lives. Housing rids a person of the pressures and anguish of life on the street. Employment means income, purpose. and independence. Together, the three create an interdependent support dynamic that usually leads to a new beginning. Remove any one, and the success rate drops dramatically.
Join us in supporting this unique program. One turn in the road can change things...forever.
Click here for a biography of Father Peter Young.
Glidepath to Recovery
The "Glidepath to Recovery" video, which aired throughout the country on PBS in the fall of 2000, details the efforts of Father Young to help those in need. Addiction causes one to often lose everything: house, family, possessions, and sense of self-worth. Sometimes just a little help in the form of clothing, temporary shelter, or transportation makes all the difference.
Under the Foundation's by-laws, its stated purpose is to financially support existing and established programs within the areas of alcohol and substance abuse, alternatives to incarceration, and job training skills which may otherwise be under-funded, and to mobilize and coordinate the efforts of community leaders in this regard.
The Foundation is registered as a Private Foundation under section 509(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, and donations are tax-deductible as provided under Section 170. Its main office is located at the Eleanor Young Clinic in downtown Albany.
A copy of the "Glidepath to Recovery" video is available at the phone number below for $19.95, or click here for an order form.
100% of all donations are used to help the homeless or those with addictions (all overhead is paid for by the corporations under PYHIT). Therefore, you can be assured that your help will go where it's needed most. Checks can be sent to PO Box 1338, Albany, NY 12201. Donations of goods can be brought to Eagle Street (below), the Schuyler Inn (575 Broadway, Menands), or the Eleanor Young Clinic (corner of Franklin and Bassett, South End, Albany).
Click here for more information about the Glidepath to Recovery video
The Peter G Young Foundation
40 Eagle Street
Albany, NY 12207
Ph. (518) 463-8485
Fax (518) 463-8684
Mailing address:
PO Box 1338
Albany, NY 12201
Donations of
any kind are welcome.
Thank you for your generosity.