Number of Families Receiving Preventive Services Drops to 10-Year-Low
Administrative confusion in city government has left thousands of families with children at risk of entering foster care without help from critical support services in recent months, according to data...
View ArticleIn Transition: A better future for youth leaving foster care
Last year, more than 1,100 New Yorkers aged 18 or older left the city's foster care system. A few were enrolled in college. Others found steady jobs and affordable places to live.
View ArticleAudio Slideshow: A Home for Former Foster Youth
Christopher Guzman, 22, is one of 200 residents in a new supportive housing program for young adults leaving foster care with no place to go. Watch a tour of Guzman’s new home and hear, in his own...
View ArticleNYC Closes Transitional Housing for Foster Teens
On December 31, the Administration for Children’s Services dismantled its program that gave 125 foster teens on the brink of aging out the chance to practice living on their own while still having the...
View ArticleWill New York State Pay for Guardianship, or Not?
A new law designed to give young people in kinship foster care a more permanent home won’t force them to sever ties with their parents, but it’s not clear how New York will pay its share of the...
View ArticleGay Teens in Foster Care
Finding a welcoming home for gay teens in foster care has long been a challenge. Advocates are calling for a city database that would identify and reserve supportive foster homes specifically for...
View ArticleAre Foster Care Visiting Reforms Vulnerable?
In the wake of a mom’s abduction of her eight children from a foster care agency in Queens early this week, some child welfare practitioners and parent advocates are uneasy, worried that the city could...
View ArticleThe Reinvestment Myth: Beyond the IBO Report
The idea of reinvesting savings from one part of the child welfare system into another sounded perfectly logical when it was first proposed in a city strategy paper in 2001, especially to anyone...
View ArticleCould Plan to Speed Adoptions Have Unintended Consequences?
The Administration for Children’s Services’ (ACS) recently released strategic plan places a heavy emphasis on speeding up the pace at which young people move out of foster care and into permanent...
View ArticleWhat’s the Matter with Staten Island?
Over the past two years, the north shore community of Staten Island had more children placed in foster care than any other community district in New York City, according to a Child Welfare Watch...
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