Issues
New Yorkers Want More Support for Children and Families From NYC’s Mayor, Poll Shows
Survey shows voters anxious about affording child care, after-school and summer programs, want more high quality, affordable services for children FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Elysia Murphy, CCC 212.673.1800 ext. 18 Jennifer Fermino, Fenton, 212.897 …
CCC Issues Survey by Global Strategy Group
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s introduction of pre-kindergarten for all three-year-olds (3-K For All) is a promising development in a city where voters believe investing in children can help ensure success in school. But the mayor’s strongest sup …
CCC REPORT: Provide Financial Relief to Struggling New Yorkers by Expanding Universal Free Lunch to All Public School Students
On May 9, 2017, CCC released a report showing that there are nearly 110,000 moderately low-income children in New York City who do not have access to universal free lunch programs. CCC urged the administration to expand its universal free lunch progra …
Reducing stress for children and families
Power of Two program graduate and Bronx office manager Shamina Bermudez plays with her son. One Sunday after church, Brownsville mom Shamina Bermudez took her four children out for pizza. The pizza was too hot for her youngest, a toddler, to eat right …
CCC Testimony: Oversight: Reforms of Homeless Services, One Year Later
On April 20, 2017 CCC testified before the the New York City Council Committee on General Welfare regarding the status of the Department of Homeless Services’ (DHS) implementation of the 46 recommendations in their 90-day review released in April 2016. …
Statement from CCC Executive Director Jennifer March on Mayor de Blasio’s 3-K For All Announcement
For Immediate Release: April 24, 2017 Contact: Elysia Murphy, emurphy@cccnewyork.org, 917-579-3639 New York, NY – “Research tells us that providing high quality early education shapes a child’s social, emotional and academic trajectory in profoundly po …
