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Christi Lynn Landrito McGarry [1] is a Filipina model and beauty pageant titleholder who represented Taguig at Miss Universe Philippines 2024. She was previously crowned Binibining Pilipinas Intercontinental 2015 and represented the Philippines at Miss Intercontinental 2015 where she finished first runner-up.
The New York State Department of Family Assistance (DFA), also known as the Department of Family Services, is a department of the New York state government. [1] Its regulations are compiled in title 18 of the New York Codes, Rules and Regulations. It is composed of two autonomous offices: [2] [3]
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 ...
New York contains the highest total Asian population of any U.S. city proper. [16] 6.0% of New York City residents were of Chinese ethnicity, about two-fifths of whom lived in Queens. Koreans made up 1.2% of the city's population, and Japanese 0.3%. Filipinos were the largest southeast Asian ethnic group (0.8%), followed by Vietnamese (0.2%).
At 8.3% of the population, Italian Americans compose the largest European American ethnic group in New York City, and are the largest ethnic group in Staten Island (Richmond County), making it the most Italian county in the United States, with 37.7% of the population reporting Italian American ancestry. [121] [130]
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 ...
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As an English colony, New York's social services were based on the Elizabethan Poor Law of 1598-1601, in which the poor who could not work were cared for in a poorhouse. Those who could were employed in a workhouse. The first Poorhouse in New York was created in the 1740s, and was a combined Poorhouse, Workhouse, and House of Corrections.