👉🏿Check out the testimony YouthNPower: Transforming Care submitted to the #NYS Child Poverty Reduction Advisory Council about the experience of applying for, managing and keeping public benefits as young adults in New York City.
tinyurl.com/YNPCPRAC

1/ 🚨💡🧵 *NEW from #PAS2024 & now out in JAMA Pediatrics*

Our quasi-experimental analysis shows Boston Medical Center reduced #ChildProtectiveServices reporting for prenatal substance exposure by 45pp w/o adverse consequences during the birth hospitalization.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

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

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.'

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.
familypolicynyc.org/explainer/econ…

Cost of living skyrocketing, but Cash Assistance hasn’t increased, keeping 1,000s of NYers in poverty. NY Assembly Majority has included an increase in Cash Assistance in their budget proposal. Let’s get it passed! #IncreaseCashAssistance #EndPovertyNow Carl E. Heastie Sen. Stewart-Cousins

New York City's rising costs and the significant lag in housing and cash assistance adjustments have left too many vulnerable.

$336 in cash assistance for a family of three is simply not enough.

NYS BPHA Legislative Caucus Michaelle C. Solages Robert Jackson NYS Senator Samra Brouk Senator Jabari Brisport brings a powerful empathy to the room invoking the 100K+ students in NYC experiencing homelessness. We all need WiFi, especially in shelters. #EndHomelessness

The NBCC Award for Nonfiction goes to “We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America” by Roxanna Asgarian (Roxanna Asgarian)! Farrar,Straus&Giroux #NBCCAwards

Seeking NYC Parents for a Study! Share your experience with ACS preventive services
cuny547-my.sharepoint.com/personal/awash…

These proposals would put hundreds of dollars/month in the pockets of families:
For 1 person household - from $183.50 --> $289.50
For 2 person household - from $291.50 --> $459.50
For 3 person household - from $389 --> $614
For 4 person household - from $501.70 --> $791.70

Expert in Foster Care Cases Admits Her Method Is Unscientific - and KathrynWellsMD refuses to disavow her approach, although she is using the Kempe name to add a false image of scientific rigor to testimony that urges permanent separation of poor families. propublica.org/article/expert…

One really exciting thing about this universal cash assistance program? It uses federal TANF dollars. Meaning, it uses welfare $$ to give no-strings-attached cash support to families. That's a breakthrough.

NYC parents of young children, join us next Wednesday evening to learn how to use MyCity website to apply for child care!

NY state child abuse hotline shortfalls lead to unnecessary investigations: report nydailynews.com/2024/03/07/ny-…