Check out our SMART Live! videos.

We hope you will join our online community on Facebook
for weekly SMART Tech Talks
every Monday at 12:30pm
and SMART Live! Culinary Workshops
every Thursday at 11am.
All are welcome!

We are also offering
SMART Live! University classes
every Tuesday at 11am via Zoom.
Due to confidentiality concerns, these classes are for SMART participants only.

View more photos here!

SMART Food for Life

SMART was proud to be a recipient of the NY Health Foundation’s Healthy Food, Healthy Lives: Supporting a More Equitable Food System grant. With support from this grant, we were able to pilot SMART Food for Life, a year-long Food as Treatment project that directly addressed the health of SMART women clients by linking those with type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes to: a) nutritional counseling; b) informational, physician-led diabetes presentations; c) the development of a medically tailored, culturally appropriate food plan; and d) the provision of prescribed food.

You can review our work here,

which includes healthy and delicious recipes especially for people with type 2 diabetes!

SMART Health Harm Reduction

In the Spring of 2025, SMART received a micro-grant from The Harlem Bureau of Neighborhood Health “to protect and promote the East Harlem Community’s rights to realize their full health potential.” Having established ourselves as a reliable and consistent source of health information in East Harlem, we used this grant to launch the SMART Health Harm Reduction Outreach project. Watch Dr. Megha Srivastava’s Intro to Harm Reduction video for an overview of harm reduction as a life-affirming practice, and

please visit our SMART Health Harm Reduction page!

Building Resiliency and Vaccine Equity
(BRAVE)

From April of 2024 through June of 2025, SMART was a partner in the Building Resiliency and Vaccine Equity (BRAVE) project, a Public Health Corp initiative aimed at reducing rates of illness and mortality associated with respiratory infections such as COVID, RSV, and flu.

Visit the SMART & Brave webpage to view highlights of our work!

Vaccine Equity Partner Engagement Project
(VEPE)

SMART is extremely proud to have been part of the Vaccine Equity Partner Engagement Project (VEPE)! This initiative, led by the NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene and the Fund for Public Health in New York City, was designed to increase vaccine equity in communities across NYC that experienced low vaccination rates. SMART was one of a diverse group of community and faith-based organizations selected to offer factual information and engage their communities in conversations about the COVID vaccine. From August 2021 through January 2023, we mobilized small groups of our SMART women and youth to serve as outreach ambassadors and initiate discussions with community members, as well as disseminate targeted messaging we created. We were excited to apply our experience and compassion to the common goal of a safe and healthy future.

Check out the VEPE webpage to review our successes!

Monkeypox Virus Awareness
& Prevention Partnership

SMART was also a partner organization of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Monkeypox Virus Awareness & Prevention Partnership (MAPP). We were tasked with deploying proactive outreach and engagement in communities most at risk for Mpox infection. The goal of the these activities was to help stem the outbreak and address inequities in health care access and outcomes through 1) raising awareness about the virus and local prevention, testing, and care options that are affirming and non-stigmatizing; and 2) connecting community members to services including vaccination appointments through navigation.

Visit our Mpox webpage
for more information!

Learn about COVID and
the COVID Vaccine

Watch the series of instructional videos with Dr. Samuel Merrick, MD, Medical Director, Center for Special Studies, New York Presbyterian Hospital!

Download the SMART brochure!

SMART Celebrates 25 Years!
Watch our 25th Anniversary Video!

2023 marked 25 years of SMART’s commitment to our growing community of women! Check out the 25th Anniversary webpage (in progress) to learn about SMART’s vibrant history and evolution through changing times.