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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 released by the Administration for Children’s Services. Despite an influx of emergency funding, the number of families taking part in programs that provide everything from [...]

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Hard Choices: Caring for the children of mentally ill parents

Child Welfare Watch, Vol. 17, Spring 2009 (PDF) The Center for New York City Affairs and the Center for an Urban Future today issued a joint report documenting the issues facing poor and working class parents with mental illness and their children. Child Welfare Watch, Vol. 17, “Hard Choices: Caring for the children of mentally [...]

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