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Narrowing the Front Door

to NYC’s Child Welfare System

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articles, studies and reports and recordings

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To Be Ripped Away From Your Family’: The impact of loss, grief and relational connection for youth in foster care, Dr. Monique Mitchell, The Imprint (September 2023)
New York City Class-Action Lawsuit Defends Parents’ Rights in CPS Home Visits — A Rare Constitutional Challenge, Susanti Sarkar and Michael Fitzgerald, The Imprint (February 2024)
Black Families Are Outraged About Family Separation Within the U.S. It’s Time to Listen to Them, Chris Gottlieb, Time (March 2021)
Guggenheim at Kempe: It Cannot Be Called Child Welfare Any Longer, the Imprint Staff Reports, The Imprint (November 2022)
New York City Foster Youth Graduation Rates Found Far Lower Than Previously Known, Madison Hunt and Michael Fitzgerald, The Imprint (June 2022)
In New York, More Data Needed to Help Students in Foster Care, Experts Say, Anne Sciacca, The Imprint (October 2023),
Is N.Y.’s Child Welfare System Racist? Some of Its Own Workers Say Yes, Andy Newman, New York Times (November 2022), https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/nyregion/nyc-acs-racism-abuse-neglect.html#:~:text=For%20decades%2C%20Black%20families%20have,commissioned%20but%20never%20publicly%20released.
Civil Rights Committee to Investigate Discrimination Against Black New York Families in the Child Welfare System, Michael Fitzgerald, The Imprint (September 2022), https://imprintnews.org/top-stories/civil-rights-committee-new-york-child-welfare-racism/233870
Child Abuse Investigators Traumatize Families, Lawsuit Charges, Jonah E. Bromwich and Andy Newman, New York Times (February 2024), https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/nyregion/acs-nyc-family-trauma-lawsuit.html
Are You Listening? Youth Accounts of Congregate Placements in New York State, Children’s Rights and Community Impact Advisors (January 2023)
New York City will stop collecting Social Security money from children in foster care (March 2022)
Editorial: A System on the brink, Times Union Editorial Board, 2/8/2024 https://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/editorial-system-brink-18654218.php
Mother Wins 75,000 After New York Took Her Baby Over Marijuana Use, Andy Newman, New York Times, (September 2023), https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/07/nyregion/mother-legal-marijuana-settlement.html
Child Welfare Officials Have Searched Her Home and Her Son Dozens of Times. She’s Suing Them to Stop, Eli Hager, ProPublica (November 2023), https://www.propublica.org/article/nyc-child-welfare-agency-warrantless-searches-lawsuit,
Strengthening Parents’ Rights: New York City Child Welfare Agency Says Not So Fast, Roxanna Asgarian, The Imprint (June 2023),
https://imprintnews.org/top-stories/strengthening-parents-rights-new-york-city-child-welfare-agency-says-not-so-fast/242471
NYC Child Welfare Agency Says It Supports “Miranda Warning” Bill for Parents. But It’s Quietly Lobbying to Weaken It, Eli Hager, ProPublica (June 2023), https://www.propublica.org/article/new-york-families-child-welfare-miranda-warning
Another Try for Legislation In New York Giving Parents ‘Miranda’ Rights During CPS Investigations, Madison Hunt, The Imprint (June 2023), https://imprintnews.org/top-stories/another-try-for-legislation-in-new-york-giving-parents-miranda-rights-during-cps-investigations/241847
American Bar Association Confronts Anti-Black Discrimination in Child Welfare, The Imprint Staff Reports, The Imprint (August 2022)
Upstream City - What an Upstream Approach Might Look Like in New YOrk City (Opinion series), Nora McCarthy, The Imprint (2022-2023)
What to Do When Children’s Services Comes to the Door: Parents have rights when it comes to visits by ACS, but standing up for them is hard to do when an investigation begins, Rachel Holliday Smith, The City (2023)
Toward Community Control of Child Welfare Funding: Repeal the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and Delink Child Protection from Family Well-Being, Angela Olivia Burton and Angeline Montauban, Columbia Journal of Race and Law (2021)
How We endUP: A Future Without Family Policing, the UpEND Movement (June 2021)
How judges can use their discretion to combat anti-black racism in the United States family policing system, Angela Olivia Burton, Joyce McMillan (March 2023)
Help is NOT on the Way: How Family Policing Perpetuates State Directed Terror, The upEND Movement (2023)

Studies and reports

Child Removal Fears and Black Mothers’ Medical Decision-Making, DeAnna Y. Smith and Alexus Roane, American Sociological Association (Winter 2023)
“If I Wasn’t Poor, I Wouldn’t Be Unfit”: The Family Separation Crisis in the US Child Welfare System, Hina Naveed, Human Rights Watch (November 2022)
Are you listening? Youth Accounts of Congregate Care Placement in New York State, Children’s Rights and Community Impact Advisors (January 2023)
Educational Outcomes of NYC Youth in Foster Care, NYC Department of Education (2022)
Fiscal Brief: New Foster Care Contracts Expected to Bring About Changes in Service Delivery, Cost, New York City Independent Budget Office (August 2022)
Why Data Matters for New York Students in the Foster System, Chantal Hinds, Next 100 (August 2022)
Building on Potential: Next Steps to Improve Educational Outcomes for Students in Foster Care, Advocates for Children of New York (January 2023)
Report and Community Recommendations, Narrowing the Front Door to NYC’s Child Welfare System (December 2022)
Report to the Committee on Finance and theCommittee on General Welfare on the Fiscal, 2024 Executive Plan and the Fiscal 2024m Executive Capital Commitment Plan for the Administration for Children’s Services, New York City Council Finance Division (May 2023),
Racism at Every Stage: Data Shows How NYC’s Administration for Children’s Services Discriminates Against Black and Brown Families, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) (2022),
Racial Justice and Child Welfare, Report and Recommendations of the Committee on Families and the Law, New York State Bar Association, (April 2022)
Race and Child Welfare: Resolution 606 and Report, American Bar Association (2022),

Recordings/Videos

Getting to the Root:Unpacking and Dismantling the Family Policing System, The Repeal CAPTA Coalition (2023)
New York State Assembly Public Hearing: The Child Welfare System and the Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse or Maltreatment in New York State (September 2023)
New York State Senate Joint Public Hearing: To conduct oversight of the Family Court throughout the State, including its resources, operations, and outcomes (November 2023)
Child Welfare, Foster Care, and Child Wellbeing, Center for Community Resilience (June 2023)
Family Connections: King’s Story, https://vimeo.com/505986118/0cd4abc981
What Do We Know? A Discussion of Key Data Related to the Front Door of NYC’s Child Welfare System, Narrowing the Front Door to NYC’s Child Welfare System: Convening #1, Narrowing the Front Door Workgroup (December 2021)
Lessons Learned and Charting the Path Forward, Narrowing the Front Door to NYC's Child Welfare System Convening # 2, Narrowing the Front Door Workgroup (January 2022)
What Should Help Look Like? A Discussion About How to Support Organizations Working With Communities and Families, Narrowing the Front Door Convening # 3, Narrowing the Front Door Workgroup (February 2022)
Where Do We Go From Here?, Narrowing the Front Door to NYC's Child Welfare System Convening # 4, Narrowing the Front Door Workgroup (February 2022)
The Need for Family Miranda Rights, Joyce McMillan, New York State Assembly Hearing (October 2021)

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