“Other moms say you have to show love to get love” — something Eneida Lugo, 53, of Clinton, says she did not know how to do before taking classes in parenting skills classes at New York Foundling many years ago. After having learned how to validate her children with love, acceptance and affection, she said, her seven children “show me their love – they really do! They hug me and caress me!” Their expressions mean a lot, she said, because “tomorrow is never promised.” Click here to read more.
amNY | Mother’s Day wish list: Express love for your mom without strings attached
“Other moms say you have to show love to get love” — something Eneida Lugo, 53, of Clinton, says she did not know how to do before taking classes in parenting skills classes at New York Foundling many years ago. After having learned how to validate her children with love, acceptance and affection, she said, her seven children “show me their love – they really do! They hug me and caress me!” Their expressions mean a lot, she said, because “tomorrow is never promised.” Click here to read more.
Huffington Post | Innovative Program Reduces the Number of Children In Foster Care
Child Success New York City, an innovative program launched by New York City and implemented by several foster care agencies, aims to improve those children’s lives, by providing greater stability while they’re in foster care and a greater likelihood that they’ll be able to return to their natural families. To date, this program has shown very promising results and could prove to be a model for the future. Click here to read more.
106.7 LiteFM | Interview with The Foundling
Stephanie Kearns, Vice President of Business Operations at The Foundling speaks about children aging out of foster care, a Mother’s Day Comedy Benefit Show on May 5th and more. Listen here.
Huffington Post | Hidden in Plain Sight: Preventing Child Abuse Falls to us All
While April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, our obligation to help children should be year-round. All of us should be conscious about the children around us – our neighbors, our own children’s classmates – and be sufficiently aware of the telltale signs of abuse so that we can report it when we see it. Click here to continue reading.
NY1 Online | ‘Symbolic’ Baby Shower Held as Part of Campaign to Encourage Parents to Talk to Their Babies
“Staten Island moms were invited to a ‘symbolic’ baby shower at Snug Harbor as part of the ‘Healthy Baby Campaign.’ The shower was hosted by the city’s first lady Chirlane McCray and The New York Foundling as part of the Talk to Your Baby campaign, which encourages parents to talk, read and sing to their babies from birth for healthy brain development.” Read more and watch the video here.
Youth Today| New York Tries New Ways to Increase Stability for Kids in Foster Care
Child Success NYC (CSNYC) is a program that uses evidence-based practices to provide biological and foster parents the skills they need to help reduce challenges in the home. The Foundling is one of the largest agencies to pilot CSNYC. Read more here.
Represent Magazine| Staff Shout-Out, Cresa Galaritta
In Selena Garcia’s piece featured in Represent Magazine, Garcia speaks of one of The Foundling’s Socio-Therapists, Cresa Galaritta and how Galaritta became not only her social worker, but her friend and mentor. Read more here.
Youth Today | When the caretaker has nowhere to turn
“The Foundling’s Crisis Nursery is an emergency haven for the children of families in dire need, aiming to prevent them from going into foster care. ‘If we could keep them out of foster care and just work on with what’s going on with the family at home, that could change this child’s life,’ says Fanny Duran-Pena, crisis nursery director of The Foundling.” Watch the video
The Bronx Free Press | Making the case with CAPP
The Foundling’s Child Abuse Prevention Program (CAPP) visited P.S. 195 in the Bronx on March 24. CAPP reaches 20,000 children each year. Read More
Metro NY | Campaign aims to raise awareness and fund program educating kids about abuse
In honor of April being Child Abuse Prevention Month, The New York Foundling — a New York-based charity that empowers children and families to live independent and stable lives — is launching a campaign to help support its Child Abuse Prevention Program (CAPP). Read More