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2/5/2020

Risks to Child Well-Being Persist in New York City, With State Budget Cuts Looming

Megan Conn

Forty-two out of 59 New York neighborhoods have seen risks to children’s well-being increase overall since the previous year, according to a new report released by the Citizens’ Committee for Children (CCC), a nonprofit advocacy group.

9/30/2019

This 23-Year-Old’s Newborn Was Taken by the Government. Here’s How She Got Her Back.

Michael Fitzgerald

At around nine o’clock on a Tuesday morning, two days after giving birth to her second child, Vanessa left a hospital in Queens, New York, and boarded the subway. She was headed to the borough’s courthouse on a mission: to regain custody of her newborn daughter.

new york city child welfare de blasio

2/13/2019

Child-Well Being Improves in New York City, But Worsens in Some Communities

Michael Fitzgerald

The child advocacy group Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York (CCC) recently released a unique report ranking 59 New York City communities by trends in health, housing stability, income security and other risk indicators for youth.

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