Fall 2024

October 20, 2024

April 2024

April 20, 2024

Summer 2024

June 20, 2024

September 2025

July 20, 2025

Summer 2025

June 20, 2025

January 2024

January 22, 2024

Winter 2025

December 20, 2025

Create a Division of Family Well-Being Within the New York City Department of Community Safety

PROPOSAL

July 1, 2025

Narrowing the Front Door to NYC’s Child Welfare System December 2022

This report critically examines the existing approaches and offers impactful alternatives to help narrow the front door to the family policing system. It delves into key findings, and presents guiding principles shaped over the course of the four convenings. Additionally, the report explores concrete strategies to end trauma, reduce family surveillance, and prevent separation in Black and Latinx communities.

December 20, 2022

Black Families Are Outraged About Family Separation Within the U.S. It’s Time to Listen to Them

March 1, 2021

New York City Class-Action Lawsuit Defends Parents’ Rights in CPS Home Visits — A Rare Constitutional Challenge

February 1, 2024

To Be Ripped Away From Your Family’: The impact of loss, grief and relational connection for youth in foster care

August 1, 2023

The Day I Stopped Crying: A Journey Towards Belonging

Victor E. Sims

April 12, 2024

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Roxanna Asgarian

April 12, 2024

Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services

Kelly Fong

April 12, 2024

The End of Family Court: How Abolishing the Court Brings Justice to Children and Families

Jane Spinak

April 12, 2024

Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare

Dorothy Roberts

April 12, 2024

Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families - and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World

Dorothy Roberts

April 12, 2024

Abusive Policies: How the American Child Welfare System Lost Its Way

Mical Raz

April 12, 2024

Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System

Alan Detlaff

April 12, 2024

Reckoning with Harm: What Does This Mean for Us as Organizations and Leaders?

January 30, 2026

Community Approaches as Alternatives to Systems

January 30, 2026

Shifting Practices and Incentives in Child Welfare Practices through an Anti-Racist Lens

January 30, 2026

The History of Child Welfare

January 30, 2026

Introduction and Keynote Speech

January 30, 2026

NYC can both support families & address equity

January 8, 2025

Sexting with client's mother ends NYC worker's stint with ACS

March 22, 2025

New York appeals court halts CPS supervision of parents whose partners have been abusive

February 7, 2025

Court Decision D76397

October 11, 2024

NYC domestic violence child abuse case

February 5, 2025

Child welfare advocate speaks out on ACS investigation of child death

April 3, 2025

Building culture of safety in New York City child welfare

March 24, 2025

Can ACS stand up to foster care panic?

December 11, 2024

Lawyers find overpolicing of Black, Hispanic parents in NYC child welfare investigations

April 17, 2025

Watching the Numbers 2025

April 23, 2025

Moving Forward: Graham's Vision 2029

5-Year Trends: NYC Child Welfare 2019-2024

May 8, 2025

Keeping families together is best: June is National Family Preservation Month and child removals should be minimized

June 26, 2023

Child Welfare Reckons with the Harm of Investigations

February 3, 2025

New York Bans Anonymous Child Welfare Reports

June 20, 2025