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Graham Windham provides services to more than 4,500 children and families affected by abuse and neglect in New York City's low-income neighborhoods. [7] Their programs include family foster care, adoption, child abuse prevention through family strengthening and parenting programs, behavioral supports, after-school and youth development, college ...
Adoption for minority children began gaining traction in the 1940s. Spence-Chapin's commitment to finding loving adoptive families for black infants made its African American Adoption Program one of the first in the United States. [26] Active outreach for African American parents had been a priority since 1946.
This program has been proven to be an efficient and effective method of reaching large numbers of children and families on a personal level. The programs reaching weekly over 21,000 children in New York City and an additional 225,000 in the globally in 13 countries. Former logo
OCFS has wide-ranging responsibilities for the provision of services to children, youth, families, and vulnerable adults. The agency is responsible for programs and services involving foster care, adoption, and adoption assistance; child protective services, including operating the Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment; preventive services for children and families; child ...
Harlem Children's Zone and Promise Academy. The Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ) is a nonprofit organization for children and families living in Harlem, providing free support in the form of parenting workshops, a preschool program, three charter schools, and child-oriented health programs for thousands of children and families.
Family Services for Deaf Children and Adults at The New York Foundling is a preventive program for families in which there is one or more deaf members. The program began in 1982. Staff are fluent in American Sign Language and provide a variety of home-based services based on families' assessed needs.
The New York City Administration for Children's Services (ACS) is a New York City government agency that prosecutes parents, caregivers, and juveniles in child protective service and delinquency proceedings in New York City. ACS has been the subject of numerous civil rights lawsuits involving the wrongful removals and deaths of children as well ...
Citizens' Committee for Children of New York (CCC) is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) non-governmental organization based in New York City and founded in 1944 that provides "a voice for children, especially poor and vulnerable children and children with special needs" as the city's "only locally-based, multi-issue child advocacy organization" working towards its aim of making the city a better place ...