Genesis Ramos, executive director of the Mount’s Desmond Center for Community Engagement and Wellness, was the keynote speaker of the Agency Soup event on Friday, October 7.
It was co-sponsored by the Mount Saint Mary College Center for Community Engagement and Team Newburgh.
Agency Soup is an annual networking event that details the services that local organizations offer. Educating the public about their services helps increase clientele and allows these organizations to make appropriate referrals for a wide variety of community services, including healthcare, domestic violence, addiction treatment, mental health, youth services, and more.
Robin Rosenberg, a counselor with the college’s Career Center, spearheaded the event. She is a member of the college’s Center for Community Engagement and the Mount representative on the Team Newburgh coalition. Agency Soup is a good example of the Mount’s tradition of service and focus on becoming the most community-minded college in the country, she noted.
“One of the Mount’s pillars is service,” added keynote speaker Genesis Ramos, executive director of the Mount’s Desmond Center for Community Engagement and Wellness. “With the addition of the Desmond Center, we are really looking to expand what that looks like.”
In addition to Mount Saint Mary College and Team Newburgh, the agencies that discussed their work were:
- Access: Supports for Living
- Big Brothers Big Sisters
- Catholic Charities
- Cornerstone Family Healthcare
- Fearless!
- Health Education Associates
- Healthy Families
- Independent Living
- Kiwanis Club
- Mental Health Association of Orange County
- Mid-Hudson Problem Gambling Resource Center
- Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall
- The Mount’s Desmond Center for Community Engagement and Wellness
- Newburgh Enlarged City School District
- New York National Guard
- Orange County Youth Bureau
- Oxford House
- Planned Parenthood of Greater New York
- Pow’r Against Tobacco
- Voices United 4 Change
- We Are Newburgh