The New York Foundling’s Families Rising program was featured in a Juvenile Justice Information Exchange article. The outlet reports, “The New York Foundling has been operating evidence-based Functional Family Therapy (FFT) programs for adolescent offenders since 2007, with excellent results, reducing costs dramatically and producing far better outcomes. Over the past four years, these programs […]

Families in Staten Island celebrated the holiday season with The New York Foundling at the Historic Old Bermuda Inn. The party was planned with youngsters in mind, with face painting and dancing provided by Bubbles the Clown, and toys donated by the Staten Island Power Squadron. READ MORE

Crime doesn’t happen in isolation. It’s about networks, like the block you live on and the web of relationships you have. That’s where Families Rising comes in: Delivered by the New York Foundling nonprofit, the initiative offers an alternative to incarceration of New York City youths who have been tried as adults. These young people […]

Ms. Zapien is part of a new initiative at the City University of New York that aims to beat the low graduation rate for young people who grew up in foster care. She hopes to finish an associate degree, move to a four-year college and go into medicine. Fifty young people are part of CUNY’s foster […]

“Haven Academy began because the New York Foundling recognized that kids in the child welfare system get underserved in traditional school settings,” said Jessica Nauiokas, principal and founder of the school. “They get moved from home to home and in each one of those moves they end up needing to go to a new school […]