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The Incredible Years Blog: Shift of Crisis to Prevention in New York City with the use of Evidence-Based Models in Schools

Bonnie Loughner, LCSW, Assistant Vice President of our School & Community Impact Program wrote the following post, detailing the impact of using the Incredible Years® behavioral health program in NYC classrooms:

The New York Foundling is one of New York City’s oldest and largest social service organizations. With an internationally-recognized and interrelated set of research-backed services, we work in partnership with children, adults, and families who are working to create transformational change in their own lives.

The Foundling provides evidence-based and evidence-informed programs that focus on keeping families together, preventing abuse and neglect, providing academic support for youth, and giving people with developmental disabilities the tools and training they need to lead independent lives. We understand and know that inter-disciplinary evidence-based preventive interventions are crucial to increasing protective factors for children and families and lead to better outcomes in the long-term. This is notably true in an educational context with children spending between 943 to 1,016 hours a year in a school setting with learning continuing in their home (Pew Research Center, 2014).

In 2016, The Foundling partnered with Incredible Years® as a way to support children and families with social emotional development and parenting skills. We knew that the schools we served needed access to tested and effective preventive programs because we saw the amount of crises that were happening on a daily basis. We looked to Incredible Years, as well as other evidence-based programs, as a way to help shift schools to a more proactive mindset…

Read more at The Incredible Years ® Blog.

March 2, 2020/by Elefant Design

Politico New York: New Year, New Services

The New York Foundling on Thursday announced that it has more than doubled its Developmental Disabilities Division’s residential and day habilitation sites and locations and expanded its services. The expansion, which brings more than 50 new supportive residences and three-day habilitation sites to Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, is a result of the Foundling taking on programs and services previously operated by the THRIVE Network and Catholic Guardian Services, officials said.

Read more on Politico New York.

February 28, 2020/by Elefant Design

Developmental Disabilities, Media Coverage, Press Release

The New York Foundling Kicks Off The New Year With A Major Expansion of its Developmental Disabilities Division

THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING KICKS OFF THE NEW YEAR WITH A MAJOR EXPANSION OF ITS DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES DIVISION

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – New York, NY (February 18, 2020) – The New York Foundling today announced a major expansion of its Developmental Disabilities Division, more than doubling its residential and day habilitation sites and locations, including a major growth in its overall programming and services for individuals and their families. This is a result of The Foundling taking on programs and services previously operated by the THRIVE Network and Catholic Guardian Services, and brings over fifty new supportive residences and three day-habilitation sites across Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx.

For over forty years, The Foundling has provided critical services to children and adults with developmental disabilities, taking a person-centered approach to each person’s goals, interests and well-being. Today, The Foundling not only provides full-time residential care to individuals across the city, but also has an extensive network of day and community programming, employment services, and coaches who work hand-in-hand with men and women to help ensure they have a say in the care they receive.

FAST FACTS:

53 = Total number of residences across New York City and surrounding counties
7 = Locations across New York City and surrounding counties where The Foundling operates day programming opportunities and activities
1,000 = The number of individuals involved with The Foundling’s Developmental Disabilities Division (up from 500 in 2019).
1,400 = The number of employees who work across The Foundling’s programming, residences, and service areas for individuals with developmental disabilities

The care of residents and program participants will remain uninterrupted, and participants will continue to be supported by the staff and team members that they previously worked with.

About The New York Foundling

At The New York Foundling, we trust in the potential of people, and we deliberately invest in proven practices. From bold beginnings in 1869, our New York based nonprofit has supported a quarter million of our neighbors on their own paths to stability, strength, and independence. The New York Foundling’s internationally recognized set of social services are both proven and practical. We help children and families navigate through and beyond foster care. We help families struggling with conflict and poverty to grow stronger. We help individuals with developmental disabilities live their best lives. And we help children and families access quality health and mental health services core to building lifelong resilience and wellbeing.

February 27, 2020/by Elefant Design

Child Welfare, Media Coverage

Fewer Than 8,000 NYC Kids in Foster Care, an All-Time Low

The number of city kids in foster care dipped to an all-time low last year, falling to under 8,000, New York City officials announced Thursday.

The results from the city’s annual foster care census showed a precipitous decline from the 1990s, when there were 50,000 kids in foster care, and a continued improvement from 2010, when there were 17,000.

Officials attribute the drop to increased investment in services like mental health and substance abuse counseling for parents under investigation by the agency that can help children stay in their homes. The agency is offering these “preventive services” to 24,000 families, officials said.

Note: The New York Foundling is one of the city’s largest preventive services providers.

Read more at New York Daily News

February 13, 2020/by Elefant Design

Education, Media Coverage

News 12: Mott Haven Academy Students get a Roaring Blast from the Past

Students at one Bronx school got a blast from the past Tuesday. The Jurassic World Live tour stopped by Mott Haven Academy to teach students how prehistoric times impact the modern world.

The tour featured Olive, a life-sized baby stegosaurus who let students have a hands-on learning experience. Principal Ashlyn Field says it’s part of a district initiative to add more science into the students’ curriculum. “We a few years ago decided that we don’t have enough science in our curriculum, so we overhauled K to 5 and added a lot of science into it and so students a learning about pushes and pulls and forces and plants and animals and survival,” says Field.

Watch more on News 12 The Bronx.

January 28, 2020/by Elefant Design

Education, Media Coverage

In Focus: Puerto Rico

New York Foundling President & CEO Bill Baccaglini appeared on Spectrum News NY1’s In Focus to discuss The Foundling’s work in Puerto Rico, and what is needed to provide stability and support within the communities that are most impacted by the ongoing earthquakes.

The Foundling has been providing Head Start and Early Head Start programs on the island for decades, providing vital support to 1,500 children and families on the island. Joined by Luis Miranda, Founding Partner of The MirRam Group and a leading voice for NYC’s Hispanic community, and Frances Lucerna, Co-founder and Executive Director of the NYC/Puerto Rico-based non-profit El Puente, Mr. Baccaglini discusses the mental health services we’re committed to providing as we look ahead, how children and families in the regions most impacted by the earthquakes are doing, and what needs to be done in terms of rebuilding Puerto Rico’s infrastructure and communities.

Watch more on NY1:

January 26, 2020/by Elefant Design

Education, Media Coverage

The 74: Students Who Are Lagging Behind Need Both Grade-Level Content and Personalized Learning. How 3 Schools Are Making It Happen

Nationally, as many as 3 out of 5 students enter school below grade level. The numbers are even higher for low-income students and children of color. To address this problem, some educators and policymakers advocate for more access to higher-quality instructional materials — grade-appropriate curriculum and content that are standards-aligned, coherent and easy for teachers and students to use.

Others argue that personalization — which strives to give students more choice over their learning, access to a variety of content based on interests and needs, and flexible pacing, all driven by continuous use of data to inform instructional decisions and often using technology — is the key to postsecondary success. However, personalized learning alone does not dramatically improve student learning outcomes. Swapping one curriculum out for another is also not a panacea, especially without ongoing professional learning supports for teachers.

Given that neither of these approaches — more access to grade-level content or to personalized strategies — is enough to help students who are behind, what is the answer? The key is to do both.

Some schools, usually new or existing schools that want to avoid multiple implementation cycles, roll out a high-quality curriculum and personalization at the same time. Mott Haven Academy Charter School, a pre-K-8 school in New York City that serves foster children and students in the child-welfare system, decided on this approach after years of seeing English Language Arts test scores hovering around the state average — a comparatively strong performance for a vulnerable student population, but below the school’s big goals.

Read more at The 74.

January 21, 2020/by Elefant Design

History, Media Coverage

Mobituaries: The Orphan Train – Death of an Experiment

From 1854 to 1929, 250,000 abandoned or orphaned children in East Coast cities found themselves on journeys across the country. Shepherded by private organizations like the New York Foundling or the Children’s Aid Society, these orphans were resettled with families who promised to give them shelter, an education, and a place to grow up. It was an ambitious, unprecedented undertaking. It was the predecessor to our country’s modern foster care system. The experiment became known as The Orphan Train movement.

A desperate solution to a desperate problem, some of the stories turned out well and some far from well.

Listen to the podcast and learn more at Mobituaries.

December 30, 2019/by Elefant Design

Education, Media Coverage

New York Post: Bronx Charter School Serves Thanksgiving Meal to Homeless Students

Thanksgiving came early at a Bronx charter school on Tuesday for more than 500 students — some of whom are homeless or in transitional housing.

The feast at Mott Haven Academy Charter School was part of an annual event that provides a traditional meal with all the trimmings for some of the neediest children in the South Bronx.

Read more at New York Post.

November 26, 2019/by Elefant Design

Education, Events, Media Coverage

Youth Today: To Help Foster Youth With Education, More Data, Analysis Needed, Experts Say

Nine percent of foster youth who are in middle school in New York City are proficient in math compared to approximately 40% citywide. Only 25% of students in foster care graduate from high school on time compared to 45% citywide.

These were just a few of the numbers shared and discussed by education and foster care professionals from around the country at “Safeguarding Their Futures: Supporting the education of child-welfare involved children & youth,” a conference last week. They gathered at the New York Bar Association to share research and data gathering techniques and to brainstorm ways to collaborate across systems and agencies to make sure that youth in foster care get the education they need to succeed.

Watch the video and read more at Youth Today.

November 25, 2019/by Elefant Design

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