Family & Community
YouthAction Tackles Juvenile Justice
Each year, CCC engages over 75 NYC high school students in our advocacy. Through the YouthAction Community Leadership Course, teens are provided an introduction to a particular issue area impacting NYC youth and are trained in advocacy techniques. Many …
CCC’s Advocacy Sets Foundation for Key Child Welfare Reforms
This past year, CCC’s advocacy has helped lay the groundwork for important child welfare reforms at the federal, state and city levels. Through collaborations with legislative champions, City and State agencies, and our child welfare colleagues – incl …
2016 Celebration Breakfast
Thank you to everyone who joined us at our 2016 Celebration Breakfast! Your support will improve the lives of the nearly 2 million children living in New York City, including the half a million who live in poverty. You have helped us make sure that eve …
Testimony: Oversight: Foster Care in NYC
On June 16, 2016, CCC testified before the City Council General Welfare Committee at an oversight hearing on foster care in New York City and to introduce several bills and a resolution aimed at increasing transparency and improving outcomes for childr …
New York Court System Should Treat Youths as Youths
This Opinion Piece by former Bronx Family Court Judge Monica Drinane and CCC’s Stephanie Gendell was published in the Albany Times Union on June 7, 2016. Raising the age at which youth are automatically charged as adults so that 16- and 17-year-old you …
CCC YouthAction on the School to Prison Pipeline in NYC
CCC’s YouthAction Members recently conducted research on the School to Prison Pipeline, which is a nationwide trend of school safety and discipline policies that push youth out of the education system and into the juvenile or criminal justice systems. …
