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Advocacy

Advocates work with residents to identify concerns, provide assistance and connect participants with services and information about other RECAP services and additional community resources.

Food insecurity continues to be an issue for our community. In addressing social determinants of health, RECAP offers activities and outreach throughout the year to educate and inform our community about hunger disparity and food insecurity and poverty right here in Orange County.

RECAP Advocates work with people to help them access resources to increase self-sufficiency and improve health outcomes. We advocate for our clients as they secure food, shelter, safety, educational opportunities, connection to health centers to address health concerns and mental health and employment support and training. Our goal is to help people find stability and advocate for themselves, their families and their future. 

Services include employment support and training, nutrition and advocacy, translation services, assistance completing benefit and court paperwork, and submitting emergency assistance requests.

In Newburgh, RECAP’s Orange County Re-Entry program assists those returning home after incarceration. Case managers provide educational, vocational, housing assistance and support as they weave themselves back into the community.

RECAP also has a Job Coach for those seeking employment. The Job Coach works on all aspects of employment. Including: interview rehearsal, resume building, transportation, job search and support through the first 90-days of employment. 

Advocacy Services

Services include employment support and training, nutrition and advocacy, translations, and emergency assistance. Our office shares space with RECAP’s Orange County Reentry program which helps people returning home after incarceration as they weave themselves back into the community.

Set up an appointment to meet with an advocate. Services include:

  • Translations of vital documents
  • Assistance with obtaining forms and navigating services like rental assistance
  • SNAP (Food stamps)
  • Medicaid,
  • Social Security (SSI, SSD
  • Survivor benefits)
  • HEAP
  • Section 8
  • Unemployment
  • Orders of Protection
  • Government-issued cell phones
  • Assistance with petitions for immigration
  • Child support
  • Custody
  • Affidavits
  • Name changes
  • Employment Support & Training
  • Resume writing,
  • Job readiness and training
  • Post-employment services
  • Job development
  • Emergency Assistance – Clothing, food, hygiene products

Bilingual services are available.

about Linda Muller

Linda S. Muller served as President & Chief Executive Officer of Cornerstone Family Healthcare for 31 years, transforming it from a single-site clinic to a multi-county health system before retiring in 2022.

Career and Leadership at Cornerstone

Linda Muller joined Cornerstone Family Healthcare in July 1991, when the organization had just one site in Newburgh serving about 5,000 patients. Over three decades, she expanded Cornerstone to 24–25 locations across Orange, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, Dutchess, Westchester, and Broome counties, serving over 52,000–55,000 patients.

Her leadership was marked by strategic growth, community engagement, and a strong focus on patient care. Muller was known for her dedication to the organization’s mission and for mentoring staff, as noted by colleagues who described her as a mentor and a “match made in heaven” for those in community health.

Her tenure included significant expansion, infrastructure development (notably the 147 Lake Street building in Newburgh, which she described as the “foundation for everything we have built so far”), and strengthening the organization’s mission to provide accessible, high‑quality healthcare

Muller is a 1976 graduate of the University at Buffalo with a B.A. in speech pathology (minor in audiology and communication) She later earned an M.S. in Health Policy and Administration from The New School, where she also taught for six years. She lives in Cornwall with her husband Charles Muller.

Colleagues have praised her trailblazing leadership, noting her dedication to community health and her role in building a sustainable, patient‑centered healthcare system.