Inclusive Services

06/01/2026

Next Tuesday, June 9, find out about the Special Education Due Process Hearing process at this free webinar from the New York State Special Education Task Force. Register here: https://drny-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/SEjSe3KxRB6z9jSjX3PbAg #/registration.

06/01/2026

Navigating Your Child’s Disability: One-to-One Assistance Is Here!
Wednesday, June 3 / 10 am – 1 pm
On the phone with Ruth DiRoma from INCLUDEnyc
Many situations require the assistance of an expert. We can provide one-to-one help for you and your child with the following:
· Bussing
· 504 plans
· Individualized Education Program (IEP) process
· Getting services for your child
· Early childhood services and programs
· Transition planning
· Community resources
· Much, much more.
Call 929.549.0814 or email: [email protected] to make an appointment for a phone call.

Navegar por la desabilidad de su hijo/a: se encuentra ayuda experta en una reunión individual
Miércoles, 3 de junio / 10 am – 1 pm
En el teléfono con Ruth DiRoma de INCLUDEnyc
Muchas situaciones requieren la asistencia de una experta. Podemos proporcionar ayuda uno a uno para usted y su estudiante con:
· Transporte escolar
· Planes 504
· Proceso de Programa de Educación Individualizado -- Individualized Education Program (IEP)
· Servicios y programas de educación infantil
· Planificación de transición
· Recursos comunitarios
· Y mucho mas
Llame a 929.549.0814 o mande un email a [email protected] para concertar una cita para una llamada por teléfono.

06/01/2026

Virtual Stop the Bleed
Wed, Jun 3, 2026
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Virtual

Stop the Bleed is a campaign that teaches people how to respond to emergencies where life-threatening bleeding is present. By learning just a few simple steps, you can become trained to save a life in an emergency situation. Bleeding is the number one cause of preventable death after injury, and the actions of immediate responders can be crucial in determining the outcome of the situation. With the skills and knowledge provided by Stop the Bleed, you can help to stop life-threatening bleeding and potentially save a life before professional responders arrive.

This workshop teaches how to:

Immediately respond to bleeding
Recognize life-threatening bleeding
Find appropriate ways to stop bleeding
Maimonides Medical Center instructors will be offering these classes on the first Wednesday of every month through December 2026 at 12 PM and 4 PM. Please spread the word and share this opportunity with others.

If you have any questions, you can reach the Community Health Team at [email protected].

To find other Virtual Stop the Bleed sessions, click HERE.

This series is a collaboration between Brooklyn Public Library's Community Health Team and Maimonides Medical Center.

Stop the Bleed is a campaign that teaches people how to respond to emergencies where life-threatening bleeding is present. By learning just a few simple steps, you can become trained to save a life in an emergency situation. Bleeding is the number one cause of preventable death after injury, and th...

06/01/2026

Teen Tech Career Exploration Day
Tue, Jun 2 2026
3:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Kings Highway Library
2115 Ocean Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11229

Are you into tech, design, apps, or entrepreneurship? Join our Career Exploration Day to meet real tech professionals, discover free opportunities for teens, and learn how you can start building skills for your future now. Explore exciting career paths in engineering, creative tech, business, and more, plus connect with local organizations ready to help you get started. Click below to register!

Are you into tech, design, apps, or entrepreneurship? Join our Career Exploration Day to meet real tech professionals, discover free opportunities for teens, and learn how you can start building skills for your future now. Explore exciting career paths in engineering, creative tech, business, and mo...

06/01/2026

Future of Commuting Design Challenge with the Riders Alliance
Tue, Aug 18 2026
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Central Library
10 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11238

What would make your commute better? Maybe more shade giving trees by your bus stop. Or one train that took you straight across Brooklyn. Or redesigned train cars that made space for bicycles that also automatically shut off other people's phone speakers.

Come show off your brilliant ideas at our the Future of Commuting Design Challenge with the Riders Alliance!

Teens will either work alone or in teams to discuss current commuting challenges and design solutions for the future of NYC transit.

Experts from Riders Alliance and Brooklyn Public Library will be on hand to answer questions and guide teens in their designs. At the end all entries will be reviewed and judged by our panel of experts. Winners will receive swag, a certificate, be featured on social media, and of course: bragging rights.

This challenge is for teens ages 13-19.

This program is presented in partnership with the Riders Alliance. Specific location at the Central Library TBD.

What would make your commute better? Maybe more shade giving trees by your bus stop. Or one train that took you straight across Brooklyn. Or redesigned train cars that made space for bicycles that also automatically shut off other people's phone speakers.Come show off your brilliant ideas at our the...

05/31/2026

Classical Interludes: Theo Bleckmann presents 12 Easy Songs
Sun, May 31 2026
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Central Library, Dweck Center
10 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11238

A jazz singer and new music composer of eclectic tastes and prodigious gifts, Theo Bleckmann makes music that is accessibly sophisticated, unsentimentally emotional, and seriously playful. His iconoclastic approach blurs boundaries, surprises expectations, and leaves listeners feeling like the world is a bit bigger, weirder, and more interesting than they thought.

Unconstrained by genre, Bleckmann brings his adventurous sensibility to re-imagining songs from the likes of Henry Purcell, Charles Ives, George Gershwin and Kurt Weil to Kate Bush, Massive Attack and the Bee Gees.

In this performance of 12 Easy Songs, Bleckmann puts music to “found” writings, New York City’s overheard conversations, words on street signs, and even verbiage scrawled in graffiti.

Bleckmann will be joined by Timo Vollbrecht, Luke Marantz, and Joseph Branciforte.

BPL Presents programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, as well as generous individual donors.

A jazz singer and new music composer of eclectic tastes and prodigious gifts, Theo Bleckmann makes music that is accessibly sophisticated, unsentimentally emotional, and seriously playful. His iconoclastic approach blurs boundaries, surprises expectations, and leaves listeners feeling like the world...

05/30/2026

Brooklyn Talks | Shaggy and Max Glazer
Tue, Jun 2 2026
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Central Library, Dweck Center
10 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11238

Dancehall in the diaspora, from Jamaica to Brooklyn and beyond!
The Jamaican diaspora has massively influenced local and international culture, from Hip-Hop pioneer Kool Herc in the Bronx to the enduring presence of dancehall in contemporary pop music. No one has taken the sounds of Jamaican dancehall distilled via Brooklyn's streets to greater heights than multiplatinum, Grammy Award-winning reggae superstar Shaggy. Orville "Shaggy" Burrell's unique style and unmistakable voice helped carry dancehall reggae into the mainstream in the 1990s. Today, he continues to wave the flag for Jamaican music and its next generation of artists. His new album, Lottery, features both genre legends and promising new talent.

Join Max Glazer and Shaggy in conversation about his journey from the streets of Flatbush to worldwide superstardom, and how he continues to push the sounds of Jamaica forward. Max Glazer is a DJ, producer, advocate for Jamaican music and 30+ year resident of Brooklyn.

Shaggy is a diamond-certified, two-time Grammy-winning recording artist from Jamaica whose musical career began in the heart of Brooklyn. After moving to Flatbush as a teenager, he cut his teeth as an MC in New York City's burgeoning dancehall scene before serving four years in the U.S. Marines — including two tours of duty in the Middle East during Operation Desert Storm. Back stateside, he inked his first record deal and scored a global crossover smash with "Oh Carolina," launching a career that would produce landmark albums including the 1995 breakthrough Boombastic and the multi-platinum Hot Shot (2000) — now the highest-ranked album by a Caribbean artist on Billboard's Top 200 Albums of the 21st Century. The only diamond-selling dancehall artist in music history, Shaggy has sold more than 40 million album units worldwide, placed 8 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, and ranks among the top 3 streamed reggae artists of all time on Spotify.

Shaggy recently made his musical theatre debut co-starring alongside friend and longtime collaborator Sting in a newly adapted production of The Last Ship, playing the Wallsend Ferryman — a run that travels to the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City for a limited engagement from June 9–14, 2026. He is also set to appear in the forthcoming film Honeymoon with Harry alongside Kevin Costner, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sarah Pidgeon, and Rita Ora. His latest album, Lottery, is out now.

Max Glazer is the Brooklyn-based co-founder of Federation Sound, whose mission is to spread the sounds of dancehall, reggae, and the Caribbean far and wide.

Dancehall in the diaspora, from Jamaica to Brooklyn and beyond!The Jamaican diaspora has massively influenced local and international culture, from Hip-Hop pioneer Kool Herc in the Bronx to the enduring presence of dancehall in contemporary pop music. No one has taken the sounds of Jamaican dancehal...

05/30/2026

2026 Outdoors for Autism with INCLUDEnyc
05/31/2026 @ 11:00 AM

Location: Rev. T. Wendell Foster Park- 164th Street between River Avenue and Jerome Avenue, Bronx, New York 10452


Celebrate INCLUDEnyc’s 10th anniversary of sharing summer memories with our families!

This event will focus on young people with autism, age 0 – 18, and their families, but all are welcome!

This free event is made possible by the New York City Council Autism Initiative.

Celebrate INCLUDEnyc’s 10th anniversary of sharing summer memories with our families! This event will focus on young people with autism, age 0 – 18, and their families, but all are welcome! This free event is made possible by the New York City Council Autism Initiative.

05/30/2026

HAPPENING TODAY!

Arts and Crafts with KEEN!
Saturday, May 30th, 2026
10:30-11:30 am
Brooklyn Heights Library Children’s Craft Room
286 Cadman Plaza West,
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Join an adaptive Arts and Crafts session sponsored by KEEN!

Youth with disabilities and volunteers come together for one-to-one projects. Projects can range from coloring by numbers, friendship bracelets, and pom-pom, feather, or sticker masterpieces...whatever materials are available to bring your imagination to life! Open to all ages.

Let’s get creative and have some fun!

For more information, call 718.253.4948 or email [email protected]

This is an accessible event. Please do not wear perfume, cologne, or other scented products while using this space.

05/29/2026

Information In and Out of Prison: A Panel
Sat, May 30, 2026
3:00 pm – 4:45 pm
Bedford Library
496 Franklin Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11238

Join Brooklyn Public Library's Jail and Prison Services team as they discuss programming, storytelling, and access to information and media inside and outside of prisons. Moderated by Piper Anderson.

Piper Anderson is a writer, coach, and cultural organizer whose work blends embodiment practice, storytelling, and socially engaged artmaking to activate the collective imagination toward social change. Through her creative studio, Create Forward, she partners with mission-driven organizations to design healing-centered, justice-rooted culture and narrative strategies. Piper is the co-founder of the Rikers Public Memory Project, a community archive that holds the largest collection of personal narratives documenting the legacy of Rikers Island to mobilize action to repair its generational harms. Piper is a TED Resident, Aspen Ideas Fellow, and Laundromat Project’s first Radical Imagination Fellow.

Join Brooklyn Public Library's Jail and Prison Services team as they discuss programming, storytelling, and access to information and media inside and outside of prisons. Moderated by Piper Anderson.