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Articles
and Testimony
 The Youth Development Institute
Thanks Eric Brettschneider for the role he played during the
last Parent Academy in September
Letter
to the Editor of Newsday by Eric Brettschneider, Executive
Director of ACT, in response to the cultural impact of 9/11
Speech by Eric Brettschneider
at the Children’s Defense Fund
Meeting during which New York City child advocates and providers
shared life before and after 9/11
Child Welfare
in New York: A Personal Perspective
From Barbara B. Blum to former ACS Commissioner, Nicholas Scoppetta,
citing her perspective on child welfare, with needed steps for
reform.
Reports and Publications – The following
list relates to ACT’s work
with the New York City’s Administration for Children’s
Services,
neighborhood partners, national partners, and colleagues at
local
universities. For a full text copy of any of these reports,
please
contact ACT
Doing the Invisible: A Case Study of the Agenda
for Children
Tomorrow. By Kay Sherwood
Brettschneider, E. B. (2001). Bottom-Up
Planning in a Top-Down World. In Social Work in the
Era of Devolution: Toward a Just Practice (R. Perez-Koenig and
B. Rock, Eds.) New York: Fordham University Press.
Download the
chapter (in PDF format)
1-2-3 Report: Three Public Policy Issues in Perspective
Chemical Addiction and Child Welfare: Building
a
Strategic Agenda to Help Families at Risk (DRAFT)
Substance Abuse and Child Welfare Oversight Planning
Session, Recommendations and Solutions, June 22, 1999
A Model for a Community Asset Survey: A Preliminary
Survey of Community Economic Development Assets in Bushwick
Fact Sheets
Helpful
Websites
www.researchforum.org
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Descriptions of research efforts
concerning prominent
issues related to income security and child and family
well-being.
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Provides key information, recent
publications, research studies,
and valuable links to related sources on a range of topics,
including impacts of time limits, job retention strategies,
and child care, and populations of special interest.
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Includes statistics information
on TANF child/family policies
and an “add project form” for those who wish to
enter
research projects into the database.
Publications
Adventures in Parenting: How Responding,
Preventing, Monitoring,Mentoring, and Modeling Can Help
Published by the National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development (NICHD, this 63 page guide is a useful aid to parents
and grandparents of every background. To order a free copy,
contact NICHD Information Resource Center at 1 (800) 370-2943
or visit www.nichd.nih.gov.
Understanding Children describes the latest research and advice
on
children up to three years old. Areas covered include prenatal
care,
childbirth, nutrition, childcare, financial and legal issues,
and extended
family. Presented in a guidebook format, Understanding Children
contains
colorful charts, photographs, and diagrams to illustrate the
facts. The guide
is a joint publication by the non-profit communications group
Civitas and
the publication company TOP. To order, contact Civitas at 312
226-6700
or visit www.civitas.org.
http://www.connectforkids.org
- Foster care Independence Act- The 1999 Act created
a new federal commitment to helping foster children make a safe,
healthy transition to living on their own. This article looks
at how the new law is promoting change across the country.
Poverty
research News Online:
Joint Center for Poverty Research
http://www.jcpr.org/
Office of NYC Comptroller
www.comptroller.nyc.gov
The website of the Office of NYC Comptroller Alan G.
Hevesi
was designed to make it easier for you to get help with
problems
and obtain information about NYC government agencies
and services. You will find telephone and email contacts
listed for all this office’s bureaus and units. The
site features
information about office activities, press releases, NYC’s
annual
finance statements, reports on computers in schools, education
and children’s health, general econoy reports, Industry
studies,
and a wealth of additional information on NYC government
and economics.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook
http://www.wkkf.org/
W.K. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook:
Kellogg Foundation’s philosophy and expectations,
levels of evaluations, blueprint for conducting
project-level evaluations, planning and implementing
project-level evaluation, Designing and conducting and
evaluation, communicating Findings and Utilizing results.
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