Located in Brentwood, NY, The Sisters of St. Joseph are the largest order of Catholic women religious on Long Island with more than 500 members, and have a 160-year tradition of ministering wherever they are needed including the Dioceses of Brooklyn and Rockville Centre, the New York Archdioceses, and in communities located in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Florida, Indiana, New Jersey, Washington, D.C., Appalachia, California, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Brazil. The Sisters of St. Joseph operate five schools for girls in New York -Fontbonne Hall Academy, The Mary Louis Academy, Sacred Heart Academy, St. Joseph H.S, Bishop Kearney H.S., as well as Academia Maria Reina in San Juan Puerto Rico. At their Brentwood campus, the Sisters operate The CSJ Learning Connection for Adult Education, Maria Regina skilled nursing facility, their Organic Garden to promote ecological conservation, and the St. Joseph's Renewal Center for spiritual renewal. Providence House and Hour Children, founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph, are programs to help incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and their children in Brooklyn, Queens and Westchester. For more information, please visit www.brentwoodcsj.org.