NY: Empowering futures with an initiative for foster youth (Includes video) Scripps News - January 04, 2024 A diploma helped open a path forward to Sanji Afruz. It's a symbol of the obstacles she's already cleared. Afruz was once in the foster care system. Right now, there are more than 6,000 … [Read more...]
NY: Governor Hochul Announces Plan to Address Public Safety Challenges Associated with Serious Mental Illness (Press release)
NY: Governor Hochul Announces Plan to Address Public Safety Challenges Associated with Serious Mental Illness (Press release) Office of Kathy Hochul, Governor for New York - January 09, 2024 Governor Hochul today announced a plan to address the public safety challenges associated with serious … [Read more...]
NY: Golden Hill housing complex receives $15 million grant
NY: Golden Hill housing complex receives $15 million grant Hudson Valley One - January 01, 2024 Two years behind schedule, the affordable housing development slated for construction on Golden Hill in Kingston received a $15-million infusion from the state Homeless Housing Assistance Program … [Read more...]
US: H.R. 3058, Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2023 (Press release)
US: H.R. 3058, Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2023 (Press release) U.S. Congressional Budget Office - January 02, 2024 H.R. 3058 would require states to include a family partnership plan describing how they will recruit, screen, and retain foster and adoptive families in the plans they … [Read more...]
NY: Pleasantville Struggles to Handle Influx of NYC Kids in Crisis
NY: Pleasantville Struggles to Handle Influx of NYC Kids in Crisis City and ProPublica - January 03, 2024 For more than 100 years, the village has coexisted, more or less peacefully, with the Pleasantville Cottage Campus - a residential program that, in its current iteration, houses about 160 … [Read more...]
NY: Connecting young people in foster care with a mentor who will stick by them
NY: Connecting young people in foster care with a mentor who will stick by them New York Nonprofit Media - December 13, 2023 The more than 6,700 young people in New York City's foster care system, almost all of them Black or Hispanic, are at a disadvantage when it comes to aging out of the … [Read more...]
NJ: Passaic County CASA, a champion of neglected children, expands to another county (Includes video) (May require subscription)
NJ: Passaic County CASA, a champion of neglected children, expands to another county (Includes video) (May require subscription) NorthJersey.com - December 14, 2023 Passaic County CASA has broadened its reach to help abused and neglected youth in a larger portion of the state. The nonprofit … [Read more...]
NY: Governor Once Again Rejects Bill to Expand New York Parents’ Chances for Contact With Their Adopted Children
NY: Governor Once Again Rejects Bill to Expand New York Parents' Chances for Contact With Their Adopted Children Imprint - December 11, 2023 New York's governor has rejected a bill that would have given biological parents greater opportunity to communicate with their children who've been … [Read more...]
NY: JCCA opens new youth mental health and preventive care facility in Downtown Brooklyn (Includes video)
NY: JCCA opens new youth mental health and preventive care facility in Downtown Brooklyn (Includes video) Brooklyn Paper - December 07, 2023 The Jewish Child Care Association has opened a new state-of-the-art clinical location in Downtown Brooklyn to help clients and their families with … [Read more...]
Building Resilience: Supporting Grandfamilies’ Mental Health & Wellness, 2023
Building Resilience: Supporting Grandfamilies’ Mental Health & Wellness, 2023 The latest report from Generations United on grandparents raising grandchildren and relatives. Information includes how grandparents’ challenges effect mental health, various findings, services, supports and more. … [Read more...]
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