Mother and Community Advocate, Norma has shared that her #mothersday dream this year is for #Right2RemainSilent to be passed.

Read her story here:
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Norma's #MothersDay Dream is passing #Right2RemainSilent and protecting all children! Please read and share her powerful OpEd this week!
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👉🏿Check out this POWERFUL Op-Ed from Norma Ginez from BronxConnect UYAI, parent and community advocate fighting for #Right2RemainSilent !

My Mother’s Day Dreams for New York’s Youth amny.com/opinion/my-mot…

The state budget commits more to early intervention services, but New York has a long way to go to meet the needs of young kids, according to the @ChildrensAgenda.

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🚨BREAKING: the Youth Interrogation bill has just passed through the committee on Codes in the NYS Assembly!

The #Right2RemainSilent coalition thanks Chair Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, committee members, and Assembly sponsor Andrew Hevesi for supporting & passing this necessary bill!

We can help but celebrate the progress in thus far with #right2remainsilent . Let's keep going!!

Big news New York! The Assembly Codes Committee just passed #Right2RemainSilent strengthening the rights for our young people.  This means better protection against self-incrimination and a fairer shot at legal representation.

“Incarcerating children does not make them better or make us safer.” Read the powerful op-ed from Carolyn Strudwick, the managing director of social work for BxD, in The Imprint! bxd.pub/4bqPY2Z

“To see those numbers decline so precipitously is really concerning. Why are we continuing to pay for expensive shelter when there are empty units sitting here?” said Alison W., CFTH Director of Gov. Affairs.

Join us on Sunday at 6pm in the Hudson Valley (48 Broadway, Tivoli) to talk about #CommunitiesNotCages !

We'll have a potluck, screening and panel to talk about the crisis of mass incarceration and why we need sentencing reform.

🚨📷Join us on 5/15 as we call on lawmakers to support & pass #Right2RemainSilent , S.1099 (Bailey) / A.8923 (Hevesi) this session to ensure that the rights granted to young people by the U.S. Constitution & In Re Gault are honored and protected. 📷bit.ly/R2RSPhoneBanki…

We YouthNPower: Transforming Care are loving this new report from NYC Family Policy Project, which is aligned with our demands for real pathways for economic mobility for youth leaving #fostercare , including young parents, and immediate supports to confront the precarity of their lives

NEW: Parents and youth impacted by ACS have called for direct investment in families and communities.
The goal of this explainer is to help envision how city and state economic policies might better protect against child welfare involvement.
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Some important facts here to remind us that poverty is not neglect. 'Policies that concretely target family economic setbacks and experiences of hardship can reduce interactions with the child welfare system.'

Urge your elected officials to support #right2remainsilent . All you need to do to send a letter is fill out the link below!

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We thank Carl E. Heastie Governor Kathy Hochul Sen. Stewart-Cousins for allocating $8.282M in the state budget for the Foster Youth College Success Initiative. While it falls short of our $10M ask, it's a crucial step forward. We hope to expand this support to reach more students next year.

Closing Rikers by August 31, 2027 is the law. Mayor Adams must follow it. Listen to Jose Perez @cdfnewyork tell how he'll feel when Rikers closes.
#CloseRikers #GetRikersClosed #Decarcerate #Defend #Divest #Redistribute #NewYorkCity

Our research from YouthNPower: Transforming Care demonstrates why the #NYCBudget must reflect real investments in youth services and workforce.
Read the full report here: tinyurl.com/YNPReport Althea Stevens

Check out our YouthNPower: Transforming Care testimony that we submitted to the US Commission on Civil Rights for the report covered in this article: tinyurl.com/YNPTestimony

Across the country & here in New York City, Black families are disproportionately impacted by the family policing system- they are investigated more frequently & face harsher consequences than non-Black families bit.ly/3WCZQTp Raga Justin Times Union