Issues
Securing Every Child’s Birthright
Securing Every Child’s Birthright (SECB) is Citizens’ Committee for Children’s campaign, created in 2005, to promote economic, housing and developmental security for all New York City’s children. The campaign calls on policymakers to go beyond short-te …
Policy Brief: Options to Improve Access to Nutritious, Affordable Food
Given that increasing the availability of affordable, healthy food in all communities and promoting better food choices could help address childhood obesity, CCC issued a policy brief with proposals to make healthy and affordable food accessible and av …
Focus Group Summary Report: Consumer Attitudes Towards Food and Nutrition in Low-Income Neighborhoods
CCC and Berlin Rosen worked together to conduct qualitative research of how families in two low-income neighborhoods made food choices, so that we could test our food policy recommendations with those whom they were aimed at benefitting. CCC conducted …
CCC Report: Youth Weigh In: The Educational Priorities of New York City High School Students
CCC’s YouthAction NYC program undertook a year-long project to identify and address the gaps between students’ educational ideals and their everyday high school experiences, and found that while the high school students they interviewed reported shared …
CCC Report: Girls in the Juvenile Justice System: Understanding Service Needs and Experiences
Approximately 20% of court-involved youth are girls whose service needs are often not met in a system that does not employ a gender responsive approach to programs and services. Although both court-involved girls and boys generally experience many of t …
CCC Report: Young and Homeless: A Look at Homeless Youth in New York City
Our findings and recommendations regarding the service needs of homeless youth, supplemented by independent research and discussions with city agency representatives, suggest the need for system-wide reforms and improved coordination among city agencie …
