MEET OUR TEAM

Our Team

"In the LYFE Program, everyone supports your success. The teacher, the educational paraprofessionals, the social worker, and the administrative team. Everyone makes you and your child feel special!"

Central Team

LYFE's Central Team serves as the support system for ensuring daily operations. This extraordinary team leads fiscal, technological, data, advocacy, and administrative work in order to create high-functioning and quality services for both families and staff. The LYFE Central Team serves as a bridge to connecting external resources to the entire LYFE community.

LYFE Central Team

LYFE Nurses

Not only does the LYFE nurse review medicals and immunizations during enrollment, she also ensures that all active students are medically up to date. The goal of LYFE is to ensure that all children are thriving and learning in a healthy environment. The LYFE nurse also provides health educational to staff in LYFE's weekly newsletter, CITY LYFE+

LYFE Nurse

School Counselors

LYFE school counselors support students academically, social-emotionally and with post-secondary planning. School counselors closely monitor individual student progress throughout the year and develop academic intervention plans for failing students with student's social worker. They support LYFE social workers with transcript review and ensure students are programmed correctly via the graduation planning tool. School counselors support and guide seniors and postgraduate students through each step of the of the college and financial aid process.

LYFE School Counselors

LYFE Administrators

LYFE Administration

LYFE Social Workers

LYFE Social Workers work collaboratively with student parents during weekly individual and group sessions to develop and achieve SMART academic, parenting, and social-emotional goals.

LYFE Social Workers

PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE

James Williams

LYFE's relentless mission to empower, engage, and inspire our student parents, their children, and their families, results in a positively profound generational impact.

Across the five boroughs, the LYFE team, consisting of 200 plus staff members, is committed to:

Empowering student parents, both mothers and fathers, to graduate from high school confident and self-assured, fully equipped to continue their future career and/or college goals, all while being a parent.
Engaging children of student parents by providing them with high-quality early childhood education, creating a strong foundation for continued social-emotional and academic growth.
Inspiring the families of student parents to develop and attain their own goals and vision for their family's future.

We stand in service to LYFE families, relentlessly creating and fostering an environment that not only supports families, but hopes to leave families feeling proud to be part of the LYFE community.

Let LYFE inspire you...

ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS

LYFE Assistant Principals serve as team leaders for LYFE sites in each borough. They ensure LYFE delivers the highest quality of early childhood education and student support, as well as help lead the day-to-day needs of the program.

Mirva Jean-Pharuns
Assistant Principal

MJeanph@schools.nyc.gov
(646) 704-3268

Jodi Kaltner
Assistant Principal

JKaltner@schools.nyc.gov
(347) 952-0863

Evelyn Melgar
Assistant Principal

emelgar@schools.nyc.gov
(917) 370-9129

MEET OUR TEACHERS

Team members are dedicated and inspiring individuals who provide care to our youngest learners, social advocacy and guidance to student parents, and foster a community of support and partnership for family members of student parents.

MEET OUR SOCIAL WORKERS

LYFE Social Workers work collaboratively with student parents during weekly individual and group sessions to develop and achieve SMART academic, parenting, and social-emotional goals.

CENTRAL TEAM

LYFE's Central Team serves as the support system for ensuring daily operations, City-wide, align with LYFE's mission and vision. This extraordinary team leads fiscal, technological, data, advocacy, and administrative work in order to create high-functioning and quality services for both families and staff. The LYFE Central Team serves as a bridge to connecting external resources to the entire LYFE community.