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From Pariahs to Partners - How parents and their allies changed New York City's child welfare system (Hardcover)
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From Pariahs to Partners - How parents and their allies changed New York City's child welfare system (Hardcover)
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At the end of the 20th century, New York City had one of the worst
child welfare systems in the United States. Often families'
difficulties festered without help from the city until the
situation exploded in the mid-90s. The city's response was to place
children in foster care, and by the early 1990s there were 50,000
children in care, more than at any other time in the city's
history. Beginning in the mid-1990s, for the first time in the
history of the United States, a movement developed of parents who
have been embroiled in the child welfare system. Their efforts,
working with their allies, brought about unprecedented improvements
that have resulted in more benefits to children and families,
systemic changes that appear to be lasting. By 2011, fewer than
15,000 children were in New York City's foster care system. The
parents whose stories are traced in this book were victims of
domestic violence, homelessness and poverty. Some became dependent
on drugs. They all had the crushing, enraging and at times
transforming experience of having their children taken from them
and put into foster care by child protective services. Many of
these parents entered drug treatment programs, got intensive
counseling, left abusive relationships, got jobs, filed lawsuits
and were reunited with their children. Some took the next step and
were trained as parent organizers. They learned how to fight
effectively against bad child welfare policies that leave families
victimized by a system that is supposed to help them. This book
focuses on the lives of six mothers who have come back "from the
other side, " and their allies-child welfare commissioners, social
workers, lawyers and foundation officers who used their resources
to help parents and advocates, and recounts how their courage and
resilience was harnessed to bring about the most significant
changes in the history of New York's child welfare system.
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