Media Coverage Archives - Page 17 of 41

City and State NY: Nonprofits on Front Lines Call for Protections for their Workers, Too

During a Thursday webinar hosted by NYN Media, City & State’s sister publication, our CEO & President Bill Baccaglini joined nonprofit leaders from Safe Horizon and the Chinese-American Planning Council to discuss COVID-19 impact on nonprofit management. Panelists highlighted the need for continued advocacy across the sector, whether to support nonprofits at large or the communities they serve across various levels of government.

“The last thing we as a city can afford, at the end of the day, when the clouds clear and the dust settles, is for these neighborhood-based agencies … (to) not be able to make it,” said Bill Baccaglini, who runs the child welfare organization The New York Foundling. “We cannot afford that as a city.”

April 24, 2020/by Elefant Design

Education, Media Coverage

New York Amsterdam News: Students Shut Out: Cuomo & DeBlasio Bicker, Schools Left in Limbo

New York City Public Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza said recently that “learning will continue” as schools remain closed due to COVID-19… However, some politicians and education advocates say the learning never started.

Our President and CEO, Bill Baccaglini, discussed his concerns with New York Amsterdam News. He fears that the children in foster care will miss out on one-third of a school year’s education.

“I have kids in foster care who are going to be high school juniors in foster care, unlike kids on the Upper East Side and Upper West Side whose parents are going to make sure that they have what they need before they go back to school in the fall. Who’s going to help my kids catch up?” he says.

Read more on New York Amsterdam News (pdf)

April 17, 2020/by Elefant Design

Education, Media Coverage

Bronx Times: Mott Haven Academy Charter School Overcomes Challenges of Remote Learning

A school located in one of the poorest Congressional districts in the nation has made a smooth transition to virtual learning. Since shuttering its doors on March 13, Mott Haven Academy Charter School has managed to successfully provide quality remote learning education to its students amidst the COVID-19 crisis.

“I’ve been so impressed with the creativity for our students and the creativity of Haven’s teaching team,” said Mott Haven’s Head of School and Founder Jessica Nauiokas.

Read more at Bronx Times.

April 14, 2020/by Elefant Design

Education, Media Coverage

Spectrum News: Advocates Worry About School Closures’ Effect on Kids In Foster Care

While closing schools is necessary to prevent the spread of COVID-19, our President and CEO Bill Baccaglini is concerned that remote learning will cause students – particularly those in the child welfare system – to fall behind.

“Even on the best day, this remote virtual learning is not what being in a classroom is,” our President and CEO Bill Baccaglini told Spectrum News. He advocates one-on-one summer tutoring to help students close the gap. “Make the investment now, because if you don’t make the investment now in these young people, these are the young people who are going to find themselves in adult systems that they just may never get out of,” says Baccaglini.

Watch more on Spectrum News.

April 13, 2020/by Elefant Design

Education, Media Coverage

CBS New York: Coronavirus Is No Recess

Bill Baccaglini, our President and CEO, appeared on CBS New York to discuss his concerns – and propose potential solutions – on the impact that COVID-related school closures will have on students in foster care. “If we don’t invest now and we allow them out without a high school degree, and no college degree, these are young people who are more likely than other kids to wind up in an adult system which they may never get out of,” he said.

Watch more on CBS New York.

April 13, 2020/by Elefant Design

Education, Media Coverage

Walton Family Foundation: In the South Bronx, a School Mobilizes to Serve Students in Need

In the 12 years since Mott Haven Academy opened its doors in the South Bronx, our school has been guided by a spirit of deep empathy and defined by the never-give-up attitude of our staff and students.

That caring and resilience have been especially evident in the weeks since we closed on March 13.

April 1, 2020/by Elefant Design

Media Coverage, Partnerships

Playbill: Ren Dara Santiago’s The Siblings Play Begins at Rattlestick Off-Broadway

Performances begin March 4 at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater for the world premiere of Ren Dara Santiago’s The Siblings Play. Directed by Jenna Worsham (Agnes) the new work marks the professional playwriting debut of Fila-Rican playwright Santiago.

Set in a rent-stabilized Harlem apartment in 2014, The Siblings Play follows three teenagers left to raise each other in their parents’ absence. The play looks at the ways in which they protect, love, fight, and diminish in the wake of their family history; and the complexity of what it means to grow up with parents who are too young to be parents in the first place…

The Siblings Play is working with six community partners, Counseling in the Schools, The Drama Club, Healing Tree, New York Foundling, Student Leadership Network, and The Possible Project on a series of post-show conversations, student matinees, and work experience.

Read more on Playbill.

March 4, 2020/by Elefant Design

Health and Behavioral Health, Media Coverage

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

Developmental Disabilities, Media Coverage

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