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he Administration for Children’s Services is releasing its “Safe Sleep Toolkit” to help reduce infant mortality. Image by Shutterstock and Administraiton for Children's Services, illustration by Zach Williams
The Children’s Village is playing host to elected officials who want to see first hand how the nonprofit is doing with caring for migrant children, according to City and State’s First Read. Representatives Nita Lowey, Eliot Engel, Gregory Meeks and Grace Meng will tour the nonprofit’s Dobbs Ferry facility, one of four places in Westchester County holding immigrant children separated from their families at the southern border. A MercyFirst facility on Long Island also hosted elected officials earlier this week, NYN Media reported.
Ford Foundation President Darren Walker had something to share yesterday about bias inherent in many algorithms that are increasingly used by local, state and federal governments, including in New York City. Walker highlighted in a June 28 tweet a video from Poet of Code. The video uses spoken word poetry to highlight how artificial intelligence misinterprets the images of black women, even those as famous as Oprah, Michelle Obama and Serena Williams.
The Administration for Children’s Services is releasing its “Safe Sleep Toolkit” for new parents today at a Manhattan event featuring Commissioner David Hansell, Deputy Mayor Herminia Palacio, NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem CEO Ebone Carrington – and new mom Marlene Catana. They will discuss at the press conference how the toolkit helps new parents find resources to protect babies while they sleep such as netting to guard against mosquitos and wearable blankets that will not interfere with breathing. On average one child dies each week in the city because of unsafe sleeping conditions, according to a press release.
It’s all going down at 10:30 a.m. at the NYC Health + Hospitals facility in Harlem (506 Lenox Avenue).
Partow and Co. has a new $149,946 contract with the Administration for Children’s Services. The money will fund event planning services, according to the City Record, which notes that the contract went to a Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprise. The agency also gave a $44,000 contract to Ridge-based company Quality and Assurance Technology Corp for rugged cases for computer tablets, according to the City Record, another M/WBE procurement.
Foodbank for New York City is close to securing a new $1.75 million contract with the city Human Resources Administration. The money will fund the storage and delivery of non-perishable foods to soup kitchens across the city, according to the City Record.
The Department of Social Services/Human Resources Administration meanwhile has inked a new deal with the Village Center for Care in Manhattan. This $5 million contract will fund adult protective services for people with physical and mental disabilities.