Issues
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 …
NYC’s Early Childhood Education System Meets Only a Fraction of the Need
This Campaign for Children report developed by CCC reveals immense unmet need in the city’s subsidized early childhood education system serving low-income infants and toddlers. Only 14% of income eligible infants and toddlers are being served by the Ci …
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 …
CCC’S SUMMARY OF ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE CITY COUNCIL TO RESTORE AND/OR FUND SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN CITY FISCAL YEAR 2017
On June 14, 2016, the City Council voted to adopt an $82.1 billion Adopted Budget for City Fiscal Year 2017 that invests in critical programs and services that will make New York City a better place to be a child. Notably, the City Council urged the Ad …
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. …
