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8/10/2022

New York City Community Teams Aim to Meet Psychiatric Needs of Low-Income Youth

Madison Hunt

A new team of community workers is providing 24-hour psychiatric support to low-income youth in Brooklyn, with plans to expand citywide.

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10/21/2019

Inside Foster Home Recruitment in America’s Biggest Cities

Jeremy Loudenback and Michael Fitzgerald

One hot summer day, Vielka Griffith walked down the stairs of her Brooklyn home to find her new foster daughter slumped on the couch. Despite the intense heat, the 15-year-old was wrapped in a terry-cloth robe, hands in her pockets.

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5/8/2019

How New York City Can Help Foster Youth Build a Brighter Future

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Ronald E. Richter

Adolescence is difficult for all of us — awkward physical and emotional changes, confusing relationships with peers and adults, sudden urges to press for independence. We are sampling new identities as we create our own.

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8/16/2018

Pioneering Parent Advocate Group Loses Another Director, Future in Flux

Michael Fitzgerald

Joyce McMillan, driving force of New York City’s Child Welfare Organizing Project, known as CWOP, resigned from the organization this week. McMillan, who began leading the nonprofit as program director in February 2016 and helped author the foster care task force report released earlier this year for New York City Council, told The Imprint she’ll be opening a for-profit entity called Credible Messenger Consulting.

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