A new report details child well-being in New York City
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Today is the last Buzz column of the year! Reporter Zach Williams will be on vacation through the end of the year, with things picking up again on Jan. 2. In the meantime, feel free to send your suggestions – including his use of the third person – for how the Buzz can improve in the upcoming year and better keep pace with all the happenings in the New York nonprofit space. Don’t forget to also send word of all your end-of-year fundraising and events to zwilliams@nynmedia.com so that they can be featured early next month.
Someone is keeping busy at the nonprofit Institute for Community Living. That would be David Woodlock, a proponent of behavioral health care collaboratives and chief executive of the nonprofit, and a former deputy commissioner of the New York State Office of Mental Health.
Our CEO David Woodlock talks about how psychiatric advance directives have the power to give patients greater ownership over the care they receive, in @nytimes https://t.co/5DG8z4UEjd
— ICL (@ICLinc) December 18, 2018
New York City is expanding a program that helps mothers incarcerated at Rikers Island. The Crafting Family Connections pilot program allows some mothers to join their children at programming hosted by the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. This program has now secured funding to operate through the end of 2002, according to a Dec. 17 press release. It is jointly funded by the city Department of Correction and the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City.
“We know that visits between incarcerated women and their children are critical to the development and maintenance of strong family bonds,” Toya Williford, executive director of the Mayor’s Fund, said in the press release, “which in turn reduces rates of anxiety, depression, and stress, and positively impacts childhood development.”
Community Mediation Services has received a $1.05 million contract from the New York City Administration for Children’s Services. The money will fund a community partnership program, according to the City Record. The Maramont Corporation has received an $8.77 million contract to provide food services for family shelters on behalf of the Department of Homeless Services.
Shorefront YM-YWHA Of Brighton Manhattan Beach got a $110,046 contract from the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to provide medical and mental health services for children. Ramapo for Children will provide similar services for the department, per a $124,187 contract. Central American Legal Assistance will provide $310,000 worth of legal and social services for children in immigration court.
Want to see what it looks like when a nonprofit goes kaput? Legally speaking, it looks like the stipulation agreement that the Trump foundation reached with state Attorney General Barbara Underwood, which she announced yesterday. “Today’s stipulation accomplishes a key piece of the relief sought in our lawsuit earlier this year,” Underwood said in a Dec. 18 statement. “Under the terms, the Trump Foundation can only dissolve under judicial supervision – and it can only distribute its remaining charitable assets to reputable organizations approved by my office.”
A new report from Citizens’ Committee for Children outlines child well-being across New York. The Community Risk Ranking analyzes 18 different factors among six categories: Economic Security, Housing, Health, Education, Youth, and Family & Community. It then applies this analysis to rank the city’s 59 community districts from highest to lowest risk to children. Read the full report here.