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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 [...]

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Cuomo Plan Cuts Home Visits for New Moms

If it makes it through the legislature, Governor Andrew Cuomo’s budget plan could wipe out state funding for one of New York’s best-proven methods of preventing child abuse, neglect and long-term poverty, while also making the state ineligible for millions of federal dollars through the health care reform act. New York is home to two [...]

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Against the Clock: The struggle to move kids into permanent homes

Child Welfare Watch, Vol. 15, Winter 2007/2008 (PDF) New York City is charging a growing number of families with abuse and neglect, leaving Family Court overwhelmed and more children spending longer periods in foster care. This edition of Child Welfare Watch reports on the difficulties of moving children out of foster care in a timely [...]

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Pressures and Possibilities: Supporting Families and Children at Home

Child Welfare Watch Vol. 14, Summer 2007 (PDF) New York City’s family support system is at a critical juncture. The city has increased its investment by more than $70 million per year in preventive family support services since 2005. But those investments have coincided with a surge in abuse and neglect reports and a 53 [...]

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A Matter of Judgment: Deciding the Future of Family Court in NYC

Child Welfare Watch, Vol. 12, Winter 2005/2006 (PDF) The Winter 2005/2006 edition of Child Welfare Watch reports on the city’s Family Court, the beginnings of reform, and the chaotic upsurge in cases following the Nixzmary Brown murder. Even before the rapid increase in abuse and neglect cases filed in Family Court since mid-January, the city’s [...]

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Tough Decisions: Dealing with Domestic Violence in Child Welfare

Child Welfare Watch, Vol. 9, Fall 2003 (PDF) This report documents changes in policy, practice and enforcement in the wake of the federal injunction imposed in the Nicholson v. Williams class action lawsuit. The lawsuit challenged the practice of the NYC Administration for Children’s Services, in cases of suspected abuse and neglect that involve domestic [...]

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