Threats to childcare and afterschool programs have become a staple of the New York City budgeting process: Each year, the mayor proposes major cuts to the programs. And each year, advocates for low-income kids fight back, lobbying the mayor and City Council to restore funding. The annual “budget dance” between the mayor and the City [...]
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New Coalition Wins Fight for Childcare and Afterschool Programs
After months of high-stakes volleying, a new coalition of childcare and afterschool advocates has won a decided victory in the latest round of New York City budget ping-pong: Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council announced a deal on Monday to save slots for about 47,000 children in programs that were set to be slashed in the [...]
What’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 analysis of Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) data. In 2010, the neighborhoods of St. George and Stapleton, near the Staten Island [...]
Better Childcare, for Fewer Children?
A city program that pays for childcare and Head Start services for low-income children is about to be redesigned in a way that may result in higher quality services , but for far fewer children. In 2011, total enrollment in city-subsidized childcare programs was about 117,000. Through the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), the city [...]
Audio: Helping Neighbors Under Investigation
Listen to reps, from the Child Welfare Organizing Project talk about their work helping parents in crisis, as child protective workers decide whether or not to remove their children. [audio:http://blogs.newschool.edu/child-welfare-nyc/files/2012/01/CWWfinalremixmp3.mp3|titles="Community Reps"] You can also download the Podcast here.
One Step Back: The Delayed Dream of Community Partnerships
Child Welfare Watch Report Vol. 21, Winter 2011/2012 (PDF) Nearly five years ago, New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services launched a plan to create a culture of community participation and transparency in the child welfare system, which is responsible for protecting children and assisting families in crisis. Its Community Partnership Initiative sought to establish [...]
Mayor’s Axe to After-School?
The Bloomberg administration is poised to make sharp cuts to the primary source of government funding for hundreds of free after-school programs that currently serve about 53,000 children across the city. Just two years ago, the city’s “Out-of-School Time” or OST program received more than $117 million in city funds and served more than 87,000 [...]
Council Says Raise the Age…Sort Of
The City Council passed a resolution Tuesday urging the state legislature and Governor Cuomo to send 16- and 17-year-olds accused of nonviolent crimes through the juvenile justice system, rather than automatically prosecuting them as adults. The resolution supports a proposal made in September by New York’s chief judge, Jonathan Lippman. Lippman’s proposal would re-route adolescents [...]
The 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 unfamiliar with the vagaries of government social services funding. More than a decade ago, before Michael Bloomberg became mayor, New York City [...]
Are 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 roll back hard-won changes that have made foster care a little friendlier to kids and their parents. The abduction took [...]
RECENT CWW REPORTS
CWW Volume 22, Winter 2012/2013
Brushes with the law:
Young New Yorkers and the Criminal Justice System.
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One Step Back:
The Delayed Dream of Community Partnerships.
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CWW Volumes 19&20, Winter 2010/2011
In Transition:
A Better Future for Youth Leaving Foster Care.
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A Need for Correction:
Reforming New York's Juvenile Justice System.
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Case Closed: Thousands More Teens Are Now Diverted From Juvenile Court
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Child Welfare in the Storm: What Happens to Vulnerable Families after a Disaster?
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A Need for Correction: Reforming New York’s Juvenile Justice System
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For Years, Half of all NYPD Trespass Stops Were in Public Housing
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Preparing New Group Homes for Young Lawbreakers
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Would Prison Closures Prevent Children’s Visits with Their Moms?
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Budget Cuts Could Put New Burdens on Family Court
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