Issues
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 …
CCC Report: Checking Up on Children in New York City Foster Care: Does the Medicaid Per Diem Rate Ensure Access to Care
The Medicaid per diem rate is a daily rate received by foster care agencies to pay for outpatient health and mental health services. It was intended to provide foster care agencies with the flexibility to respond to the special health and mental health …
CCC Report: Carrots and Sticks: The Impact of the New York State Family and Children’s Services Block Grant on Child Welfare Services in New York City
In 1995, Governor Pataki proposed and the Legislature approved the Family and Children’s Services Block Grant, which capped state funding for child welfare services and reduced state spending by 25%, or $151 million in its first year. The Block Grant w …