Events
updated January 26th, 2012
Please come see recently-appointed ACS Commissioner Ron Richter discuss his vision for family and community-based child welfare reform, on a panel that will also include CWOP’s Executive Director Mike Arsham.
A Child Welfare Watch forum
Ties That Bind: Reimagining juvenile justice and child welfare for teens, families and communities
Presented by the Center for New York City Affairs
Thursday, February 2, 2012
8:30 am to 10:30 am
Theresa Lang Community & Student Center
55 West 13th St. (between 5th & 6th avenues), 2nd floor
The Bloomberg administration is seeking major changes in how the city works with teens in juvenile justice, child protection and foster care. The city would create a complete juvenile justice system in the five boroughs, no longer sending teens to state-run correctional facilities. At the same time, nonprofits would create more intensive, family-centered and community-rooted services for teens in child welfare. Can the city steer more young people away from both foster care and juvenile justice–and work with more parents and teens to help them stay together?
Plus: a discussion of the latest edition of Child Welfare Watch, “One Step Back: The delayed dream of community partnerships,” which looks at the partnerships’ strengths and limitations, and the challenges of realizing the vision of a system more accountable to communities.
With:
Ron Richter, Commissioner, New York City Administration for Children’s Services
Gabrielle Prisco, Director of the Juvenile Justice Project, the Correctional Association of New York
Mike Arsham, Executive Director, Child Welfare Organizing Project
Andrew White, Director, Center for New York City Affairs
and others
Admission is free but you must reserve a seat. Please emailcenternyc@newschool.edu t
The Child Welfare Watch project and this event are made possible thanks to the generous support of the Child Welfare Fund, the Ira W. DeCamp Foundation, the Viola W. Bernard Foundation, the Sirus Fund and the Milano Foundation.
