He proposed a merger of SCAN and Boys and Girls Harbor and asked me to work with him to make it happen. Within weeks of being elected President, I and several others from SCAN had a meeting with Stephen Dannhauser who was the Chairman of Boys & Girls Harbor and the former Chairman of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. I joined the Board in 2002 and several years ago became the President of the Board. Part of her negotiated disposition with the Court was to work with SCAN. We were homeless fugitives for several months before she was caught. I first worked with SCAN in 1986 when my family became homeless after my mother fled the Police and Child Welfare authorities seeking to take my brothers and I and put us into foster care. Our work was featured in the PBS Treasures of New York series! Becky Fasanello's work on that episode was nominated for an Emmy Award and won a New York State Award for excellence in Broadcasting! SCAN-HARBOR is a member of the United Neighborhood Houses, an organization that is composed of organizations also known as Settlement Houses. With 23 different program sites in Harlem, East Harlem and the South Bronx, which together will annually serve over 7,600 youth and 1,000 families, SCAN-Harbor will establish itself as one of the largest youth service providers in the community it serves.
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