The New York Foundling’s charter school Mott Haven Academy in the South Bronx is beginning its middle school expansion in fall 2017. “The idea, explained the Foundling’s president and CEO Bill Baccaglini, grew out of wanting to keep existing students in a stable environment for as long as possible,” Chalkbeat reports. READ MORE
New York City volunteers worked at a Harlem elementary school on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The volunteers did everything from painting lockers to making up care packages. One group of volunteers made “dozens of baby blankets” to donate to The New York Foundling. READ MORE
The New York Foundling’s Families Rising program was featured in a Juvenile Justice Information Exchange article. The outlet reports, “The New York Foundling has been operating evidence-based Functional Family Therapy (FFT) programs for adolescent offenders since 2007, with excellent results, reducing costs dramatically and producing far better outcomes. Over the past four years, these programs […]
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation awarded one million dollars in grant money to the New York Foundling for its Road to Success program, which supports foster youth from eighth grade through college. READ MORE
Families in Staten Island celebrated the holiday season with The New York Foundling at the Historic Old Bermuda Inn. The party was planned with youngsters in mind, with face painting and dancing provided by Bubbles the Clown, and toys donated by the Staten Island Power Squadron. READ MORE
City data reveals a record number of New Yorkers are experiencing homelessness. Throughout the city, The New York Times reports, “charter schools are serving fewer homeless students, proportional to their total enrollment, than traditional public schools.” However, The New York Foundling’s Mott Haven Academy in the South Bronx prioritizes seats for homeless children and children in foster […]
Crime doesn’t happen in isolation. It’s about networks, like the block you live on and the web of relationships you have. That’s where Families Rising comes in: Delivered by the New York Foundling nonprofit, the initiative offers an alternative to incarceration of New York City youths who have been tried as adults. These young people […]
NY1 anchor Pat Kiernan visited Haven Academy on November 15, to celebrate the launch of his debut children’s book, GOOD MORNING, CITY, to first-graders at The Foundling’s charter school, Haven Academy, located in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx. READ MORE
Ms. Zapien is part of a new initiative at the City University of New York that aims to beat the low graduation rate for young people who grew up in foster care. She hopes to finish an associate degree, move to a four-year college and go into medicine. Fifty young people are part of CUNY’s foster […]
This Thanksgiving is very special for the Gillian and Orlando McAllister’s family as they officially add two more seats to their table this year. The East New York, Brooklyn couple recently finalized the adoption of 9-year-old twins Timothy and Antonio, who they’ve known since the boys were 3-years-old. The McAllisters met the boys in 2010 when they […]