Family & Community
NYC’s Preventive Services Landscape: Meeting Children and Family Needs During COVID-19
The Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies (COFCCA) and Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York (CCC) are partnering to undertake a data-driven advocacy project to better understand how child welfare prevention programs have responded and are …
The 2020 Census & Our Fight to Ensure Every Child Counts
The Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments regarding the Trump Administration’s memorandum to exclude undocumented immigrants from the apportionment data used for congressional seats and Electoral College votes, the memorandum represents another s …
Keeping Track of Child and Family Well-being amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, reliable and up-to-date data have proven an invaluable, if sometimes elusive, source for identifying urgent needs and delivering resources across the country. One of these data sources that recently emerged is …
City Council Oversight Hearing: Racial Disparities in the Child Welfare System
CCC Policy and Budget Analyst Meryleen Mena testified before the City Council General Welfare Committee on October 29, 2020 at an oversight hearing focused on racial disparities in New York City’s child welfare system. Our testimony discusses several c …
2019-2020 Annual Report
Seventy-five years ago, CCC was created with a radical vision that all children had fundamental human rights to be healthy, housed, educated and safe. This unique approach was grounded in the belief that effective advocacy must be fact-based and achiev …
NYC Children & Families 2019: Statistics from the US Census Bureau’s 2019 American Community Survey
Every September, the Census Bureau releases annual data from the American Community Survey, a survey of millions of households across the country. This year CCC analyzes the 2019 figures to show how rising economic inequality created a number of vulner …
