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This week, we are uplifting our interview with NYC Family Policy Project about how we approached design and research in our direct cash transfer project. Read the full interview here: bit.ly/3BOOq6j

🔥 Here is part of our colleague T'Coy's interview with NYC Family Policy Project about our direct cash transfer project. 🔥 Check out the full interview here: bit.ly/3BOOq6j

👉🏿 Our colleague Maya describes how we shaped our direct cash transfer pilot from the start in this interview with NYC Family Policy Project -- focusing on young people's visions for the future. You can read the full interview here: bit.ly/3BOOq6j

Ellenie from our team shared how we approached collective knowledge-building with the community of young people who joined our direct cash transfer pilot in her interview with NYC Family Policy Project Learn more here: bit.ly/3BOOq6j

Our YouthNPower facilitator Julia shared some of the long term view we used to plan for our guaranteed income pilot with NYC Family Policy Project See the full interview here: bit.ly/3BOOq6j

✊🏿We are in Albany today with our YouthNPower: Transforming Care team standing with advocates from across the State. It's time to end child poverty!

New report from NYC Family Policy Project on the POWER of CASH, w/ insights from our YouthNPower: Transforming Care teammate Christine: “Cash assistance is supposed to be a stepping stone to help you out, but there is a constant fear of making one mistake and losing everything.” bit.ly/4izbY08

Today, our YouthNPower: Transforming Care colleague Christine was Governor Kathy Hochul's offices in NYC w/ allies like Win Coalition for the Homeless VOCAL-NY Andrew Hevesi, calling for action on the Child Poverty Reduction Advisory Council recommendations. We can #EndChildPoverty!

👉🏿Our YouthNPower: Transforming Care team was in Portland, OR yesterday for the pointsourceyouth Conference on Direct Cash Transfers (aka #guaranteedincome). Proud to share our work from #NYC as part of the plenary on what we are learning about unconditional cash support for young adults! 🔥🔥

Our YouthNPower: Transforming Care team in Albany yesterday! #GuaranteedIncome & #YouthJustice

Join some of our YouthNPower: Transforming Care team at The Protective Power of Cash: A Virtual Teach-In on Cash Assistance! Date: Monday, March 3, 2025 Time: 1:00 - 2:30 PM Register for the zoom: bit.ly/4i9Yrel

Our new report is out TODAY! "Starting to Live" describes the impact of unconditional cash support in the lives of young adults in New York City after foster care. Read it here: bit.ly/44cepz5 And, let us know what you think! #guaranteedincome #fostercare

What happens when young people leaving foster care get $1,000/mo, no strings attached? Two new reports show #CDFNY's pilot program w/ YouthNPower: Transforming Care improved their well-being & stability! YouthNPower: Transforming Care Report: bit.ly/4lhTOAi NYC Year 1 Report: on.nyc.gov/3T72WMj

We created the first unconditional cash pilot created for young people who aged-out of #fostercare designed with young people with lived expertise in the system. Our new report "Starting to Live" shares what young people experienced with this support: bit.ly/44cepz5

👉🏿Young people in our pilot said they experienced FREEDOM with 1 year of cash support. ✊🏿Our new report "Starting to Live" shares about the impact of cash and the possibilities for permanent policy of support here: bit.ly/44cepz5

🌻Young people in our pilot told us they could make plans for the future and dream bigger with 1 year of financial support. Read our new report "Starting to Live" to learn more: bit.ly/44cepz5

Cash Assistance Can Safeguard Youth Leaving Foster Care, Report Finds imprintnews.org/top-stories/ca…

New on the #ChildFocusPodcast: We’re talking direct cash support for youth with foster care experience w/ @cdf_newyork’s Julia Davis & Denice Ocana. Learn how young people are reimagining broken systems👇 🔗 youthnpower.org #YouthNPowertc #CashTransfers #pilot2policy

New York decided to treat youth like youth when it passed Raise the Age. Rolling it back is not only a step backward, but ignores all the evidence about what actually makes our communities safer. Read Juval Scott and Kristin Henning in New York Daily News: nydailynews.com/2025/09/30/pro…