Issues
Summer Camp Restoration Helped Thousands of Middle School Children, But Abbreviated Timeline of the Partial Restoration Left Thousands of Children Without Camp
CFY 2019 Funding was for One Year Only—So Thousands of Children, Families and Providers Will Face This Cut Again and Districts Set to Lose the Most Summer Programs Have High Rates of Child Poverty Despite the well-known fact that summer camp programmin …
Raise The Age-New York Campaign Statement On The First Day Of State-wide Implementation
October 1, 2018 – Today, as Raise the Age legislation goes into effect across New York State, the Raise the Age coalition recognizes the years of ground-breaking work of hundreds of diverse individuals and organizations, including formerly incarcerated …
Staff Spotlight: Laura Jankstrom, Director of Civic Engagement Programs
It’s been eight years since Laura Jankstrom joined the CCC staff. She first joined as a YouthAction coordinator, where she managed programming designed to help New York City high school students develop skills in leadership, advocacy, and/or civic enga …
Statement from CCC on Proposed Federal Rule Impacting Immigrant Children and Families
On September 22nd, the Trump Administration released a proposal targeting families on the path to U.S. citizenship. Though the proposal is not yet posted on the Federal Register, we know that the policy as written will be deeply damaging to immigrant c …
On Staten Island’s North Shore, family poverty rate shows a troubling trend
The 2017 American Community Survey data showed signs of progress for NYC families: the family poverty rate is down across the city, dropping more than a percentage point from 2016. But in Staten Island and on the North Shore in particular, the family p …
Statement by CCC Executive Director Jennifer March on U.S. Census Data
For Immediate Release: September 13, 2018 Contact: Elysia Murphy, emurphy@cccnewyork.org, 212-673-1800 x18 “The United States Census Bureau released today the latest data on income and poverty levels from the American Community Survey. The 2017 ACS dat …
