Foundling Chief Program Officer Carmen Jirau-Rivera and ACS Commissioner David Hansell hold a wearable blanket that is safe for sleeping babies. These wearable blankets will be available to families for free at various ACS locations throughout the city. (Photo courtesy Administration of Children’s Services.) Ahead of a bitter cold, snowy weekend, the New York […]
Jessica Nauiokas, Principal of The Foundling’s Mott Haven Academy, writes about the effectiveness of a trauma-informed approach to educating children in the child welfare system and in low income communities. This opinion piece is part of a yearlong series examining higher education for youth in foster care, made possible in part by The New York Foundling. READ […]
The Home of Integrated Behavioral Health will serve 200 families with children between the ages of five and 18 years old, according to a Jan. 14 press release. READ MORE
Con una inversión que supera los $200,000, el alcalde de Vega Alta, Oscar ‘Can’ Santiago Martínez inauguró recientemente un nuevo Head Start en el Barrio Sabana Hoyos, en conjunto con la institución educativa sin fines de lucro New York Foundling (NYF), que administrará el mismo. READ MORE
The New York Foundling welcomed staff and community stakeholders to the opening of its new state-of-the-art mental health clinic in East Harlem, officially called the Home of Integrated Behavioral Health, on January 14, 2019. “Our clinic ushers in a new way to approach behavioral and mental health,” said Bill Baccaglini, CEO and President of The New York […]
This article is part of a yearlong series examining higher education for youth in foster care, made possible in part by The New York Foundling. READ MORE
Amada, one of the lucky recipients, with Foundling board member Anthony Gallo, who works for Petro Home Services. Petro’s team delivered heating oil to the foster parent’s Yonkers home on Thursday, January 10. Thanks to the generosity of Petro Home Services, two New York Foundling foster parents received a year’s worth of heating oil […]
NBC New York’s Melissa Russo reports on The Foundling’s Child Abuse Prevention Program and its funding troubles. The New York Foundling’s one-of-a-kind Child Abuse Prevention Program (CAPP) has been forced to scale back the number of in-school Child Safety Workshops for the remainder of the school year due to a lack of funding — […]
A Q&A on The Foundling’s website tells how Trystan worked his way through adversity as a teen to earn a master’s degree from New York University, where he then interned with the same organization that helped him as a foster care youth. READ MORE
The New York Foundling had no choice but to cancel upcoming Child Abuse Prevention Program workshops across New York City schools due to lack of funding for this impactful program, which uses puppets to teach children how to recognize and stop child abuse. Last year alone, it resulted in 165 calls to New York State’s child […]