Health Services &
Other Benefits
As community health advocates, we help you know about benefits available to you.
ESOL &
Computer Classes
We run free English and computer classes to teach you the skills you need to succeed.
EVENTS
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
SACSS IN THE NEWS
National Public Radio (NPR) features SACSS in an interview >View
South Asian-American Non-Profit Leads Joint Health Services Initiative With $700, 000 Innovation Grant >View
Adding Pantries and Spice to New York's Hungry Neighborhoods > View
NYC Council Member Peter Koo visits SACSS Summer Youth Leadership Program > View
South Asian organization addresses hunger, food insecurity in New York City > View
The Need for City’s Only South Asian Food Pantry > View
Release of Unlocking the Golden Door > View
The Hindu Article on Sudha Acharya > View
9/11 Seven Years Later SAJA report > View
A Research Article on Cab Drivers > View
India Abroad Article Pages
Press Release with the NYIC > View
PUBLICATIONS
Unlocking the Golden Door (PDF version ready) > View
9/11 Book of Memories (PDF version ready) > View
Sudha Acharya’s Testimony AALR Fall 2011 on 9/11 (PDF version ready) > View
Every disease…man can get can start in this cab’’: Focus Groups to Identify South Asian Taxi Drivers’ Knowledge, Attitudes and Beliefs About Cardiovascular Disease and Its Risks (Authors: Francesca M. Gany , Pavan P. Gill , Ayaz Ahmed, Sudha Acharya, Jennifer Leng) > View
Another Publication headed by NYIC with SACSS collaboration > View
SACSS HIGHLIGHTED IN OTHER AGENCY WEBSITES
OneCity Health $700,000 Grant Press Release > View More Information on Grant >View
Union Square Awards Article > View
Asian American Federation 9/11 Tribute > View
How We Have Stayed Alive Despite Madoff Scandal > View
Press Release at SAALT website > View
Sudha Acharya Advocating > View
NYIC (Health Reform One Year Later) > View; (Health Reform Two Years Later) > View
VIDEOS
SACSS Gala 2016 > View
NYIC Press Briefing video: Immigrants and Health Care Reform > View
Sudha Aacharya India-Abroad award video > View
Panel Discussion On Obamacare | Rene Report > View
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South Asian Council for Social Services
143-06 45th Avenue, Flushing, New York 11355
(718) 321-7929 | sacss@sacssny.org
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SACSS was created in 2000 with a mission to empower and integrate underserved South Asians and other immigrants into the economic and civic life of New York. We assist individuals and families in the areas of healthcare access, senior services, other benefits and civic engagement. We provide basic and advanced English and computer classes. SACSS runs the first South Asian food pantry in New York. All of our programs are free and are provided by culturally competent staff members who speak Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Malayalam, Nepali, Tamil, Telugu, and Spanish.