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A Need For Correction: Reforming New York's Juvenile Justice System. Child Welfare Watch. Vol. 18, Fall 2009
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White, Andrew; Hemphill, Clara; Hurley, Kendra – Center for an Urban Future, 2009
In the wake of a U.S. Justice Department investigation that found widespread use of excessive force by staff at upstate psychiatric care facilities for mentally ill children, this new edition of Child Welfare Watch identifies shortcomings in mental health services and explores possible solutions, including the expansion of alternatives to…
Descriptors: Health Services, Mental Health Programs, Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice
An Agenda for New York's Forgotten Millions. An Appeal to the 204th Legislature.
Community Service Society of New York, NY. – 1981
Presented here are suggestions by the Community Service Society of New York to the 1981 New York State Leqislature regarding state government's obligations to the poor and disadvantaged. The three recommendations that receive priority in the report are calls for increasing the public assistance grant, financing the Child Welfare Reform Act, and…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Community Programs, Correctional Rehabilitation, Criminal Law
AIDS in the Black Community: Programmatic Directions for New York State. Preliminary Report, Human Services Subcommittee. The Governor's Advisory Committee for Black Affairs, Albany. Volume 2, Human Services.
New York Governor's Advisory Committee for Black Affairs, Albany. – 1987
There is a critical need for culturally appropriate community-based services in the black community to stop the spread of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and to support those with the disease. AIDS is a priority health and social services issue for black New Yorkers, affecting not only individual men and women but whole families.…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, At Risk Persons, Black Culture, Blacks