Category Archives: News
1st Precinct/Suffolk County PAL/Outreach Center Soccer Clinic
The 1st Precinct/Suffolk County PAL/Outreach Center Soccer Clinic was launched five years ago and has proven to be both popular and successful. So far, we have maxed out the 100-player enrollment every year; this has also turned out to be an outdoor family event as the parents come to watch the children go through skill […]
COVID-19 – I Am So Over It!
I cannot believe that it has already been two years since we asked our volunteers not to come to the Outreach until it was safe. We started to transform our building in order to distribute food to our clients via a table outside the front door. Although, we faced many difficulties…we never closed our doors […]
Covid Protocols, Flu Shots, and Soup
Just a quick update from the Outreach Center here in Wyandanch! We have now learned to adapt our services to meet all Covid protocols and are in full production mode, providing food, winter coats, and a host of social services to our clients and our street people. We are distributing food to an average of […]
Thanksgiving, Flu Shots, and Winter Coats
Friends, As I drove up to the Outreach Center at 7:30 AM on Monday, November 21st, there was already a line for our Thanksgiving distribution, and it was raining. I opened the church so that they could shelter from the rain until we started distribution at 9:45. I gave each family a numbered ticket and […]
Some Data Points About the Outreach Center
Friends, I am in constant awe of the breadth, depth, and reach of services to the community that the Outreach Center is able to provide and the number of people we are able to touch and serve on a weekly basis. A quick, sincere “Shout Out” to Rich Schaffer and Tony Martinez who could not […]
Spiderman, Haiti, Poetry and More
Friends. “Mr. Joe, look at my Spiderman backpack,” said a boy as he ran up to me and showed off his newly obtained bag for school. He said “cool”, and I said “way cool!” His older sister rolled her eyes at him (and me) but said thank you as she passed by with her backpack. […]
Gerald J. Ryan Outreach Center COVID-19 Pop-up Coronavirus Vaccination Site
The Governor’s office in partnership with community leaders in helping to reach vulnerable communities and make the vaccine accessible to them. The center successfully hosted a vaccination pop up site for this hard hit community where over 430 plus people were vaccinated. The vaccine pop-up site was set up in conjunction with the Governor’s office, […]
Tariff Struggles With China Helps to Fight Hunger on Long Island
The Long Island Cares Food Bank benefits from the trade war with China enabling food pantries to provide meats, fresh produce, and other perishables. The Gerald J. Ryan Outreach Center is one of many food pantries that have been able to gain additional and desperately needed food to help feed families in need.
Gerald J. Ryan Summer Camp Golf Outing 2019
The Gerald J. Ryan Summer Camp at Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Church in Wyandanch has served the community for nearly 40 years. We enroll 150 children in Grades One through Six. Our goal is to foster the growth of self-esteem in our children as we give them educational and recreational opportunities that would […]
Long Island Catholic Applauds Thanksgiving Package Tradition Organized by the Ryan Outreach Center!
WRITTEN BY GREGORY SHEMITZ / THE LONG ISLAND CATHOLIC The parish hall of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Church in Wyandanch was humming with activity on Sunday, Nov. 19, as approximately 150 volunteers of various ages and faith backgrounds worked feverishly to assemble bags of Thanksgiving Day food that would be distributed to people […]
