Youth

YouthAction Community Leadership Course Foster Care for Youth in NYC

Citizens’ Committee for Children’s (CCC) YouthAction Community Leadership Course (YCLC) is a youth advocacy training program for high school students from New York City’s public and private schools. CCC is an independent child advocacy organization who …

Summary of the New York City Fiscal Year 2020 Executive Budget

On April 25, 2019, Mayor de Blasio released his $92.5 billion Executive Budget for Fiscal Year 2020, which begins July 1, 2019. Citizens’ Committee for Children (CCC) appreciates the de Blasio Administration’s efforts to make New York City a fairer and …

CCC Testimony: New York State Complete Count Commission Hearing

On May 1, Sophia Halkitis, CCC’s Data Analyst, testified in front of the New York State Complete Count Commission regarding methods to ensure a complete count of all New Yorkers in the 2020 Census. Sophia’s recommendations included: Target census outre …

Advocates push city on office for students in foster care, expanded bus service

Census 2020: Citizenship question in front of SCOTUS

Today, the Supreme Court of the United States will hear oral arguments on the addition of a question to the 2020 Census form asking respondents’ for their citizenship status. The fight against the inclusion of the question goes back to 2018 when states …

Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York likes what it sees in the City Council’s response to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s proposed budget.