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01.16.2021 | New York Daily News | Between 3,000 and 6,000 fewer city youngsters enrolled last year in supportive services like speech and physical therapy than in previous years after referrals from pediatricians plummeted by more than 80% at the peak of the pandemic, an analysis from Advocates...
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01.15.2021 | NY Post | Advocates for Children of New York found an 82 percent drop in the number of cases that were brought to the attention of the city’s Early Intervention program between March and April 2020. “As a result, thousands of young children with developmental delays or...
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01.16.2021 | NY1 | "We don’t know what has happened to all of the children who weren’t referred at the height of the pandemic. At some point, we would expect to see a significant increase in referrals to early intervention, and think it’s important to identify the children who were not referred and...
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Blog: Advocates urge NYC Education Dept. to fill over 20 vacant positions for supporting homeless students01.13.2021 | NY Daily News | More than 20 Education Department jobs dedicated to working with homeless students are sitting vacant at a time when kids without secure housing need additional support more than ever, advocates say. “Remote learning has been disastrous for many of the more than...
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01.15.2021 | Politico (Pro) | “An estimated 3,000–6,000 young children in New York City were never identified as potentially having a developmental delay or disability,” the group said in a release, adding about a quarter of the 33,000 children already receiving services had them interrupted due to...
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01.15.2021 | Today, Advocates for Children of New York (AFC) released a new data brief, Delayed Interventions: Early Indicators of the Pandemic’s Impact on Infants and Toddlers, showing a steep decline during the COVID-19 pandemic in the number of infants and toddlers referred to the New York City...
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01.15.2021 | Chalkbeat NY | “Infants and toddlers cannot afford to wait for critically important Early Intervention services, said Kim Sweet, the executive director of Advocates for Children, the advocacy group that conducted the analysis. “The State and City need to take quick action to ensure...
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Blog: NYPD disproportionately restrains students of color during crises in City schools, agency data shows01.01.2021 | Medium | Dawn Yuster and her organization, Advocates for Children of New York, are calling for a mental health continuum to be established in schools with high rates of child-in-crisis cases. This model was developed by the Mayor’s Leadership Team on School Climate in 2016, who urged...
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Coalition for Multiple Pathways to a DiplomaAdvocates for Children of New York (AFC) leads a statewide coalition of educational and advocacy organizations and families who have come together to urge the creation of multiple pathways to a diploma in New York State, each of which holds all students...
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Blog: New Data Show Number of NYC Students who are Homeless Topped 100,000 for Fifth Consecutive Year12.03.2020 | Today, the New York State Technical and Education Assistance Center for Homeless Students (NYS-TEACHS), a project of Advocates for Children of New York (AFC), posted new data showing that more than 111,000 New York City students—approximately one in ten children enrolled in district or...
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12.10.2020 | Chalkbeat NY | “This is a plan to address some of the problems with remote learning, which is important, but it’s not a plan for education recovery,” said Kim Sweet who heads Advocates for Children, which spearheaded the class-action suit. “The city needs a systemic approach for...
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Highly Mobile Students: Youth in Foster Care, Temporary Housing, or the Juvenile/Criminal Justice SystemReturning visitors to our resource library: If you have downloaded a publication before, we recommend clearing your browsing history before clicking the links below, to ensure you are...
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12.03.2020 | City Limits | The number of homeless students in New York City dropped 2 percent last school year but still topped 100,000, according to data released Thursday. The New York State Technical and Education Assistance Center for Homeless Students (NYS-TEACHS), which released the...
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12.03.2020 | Brooklyn News 12 | Even before the pandemic, students facing homelessness already dealt with many obstacles trying to succeed in school. Advocates for Children of New York is concerned that the pandemic has magnified those disparities. "When schools closed, students lost what is a...
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12.04.2020 | NY1 | “Before the pandemic, only 29% of students who are homeless were reading on grade level, and outcomes are even worse for students who are in shelter,” said Randi Levine, the policy director of Advocates for Children. "So we’re extremely concerned about the learning loss that is...
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12.04.2020 | The Imprint | “The vast scale of student homelessness in New York City demands urgent attention,” said Kim Sweet, executive director of Advocates for Children, in a news release. “If these children comprised their own city, it would be larger than Albany, and their numbers may...
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12.04.2020 | The 74 | Advocates say the real number is probably higher, given how difficult COVID-19 has made it for administrators to assess student housing arrangements. The figure is also likely to increase following the expected lifting of a statewide eviction moratorium at the end of this...
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12.03.2020 | NY1 | More than 110,000 New York City students are homeless — either living in shelters or in unstable, temporary housing arrangements, a new report from the organization Advocates for Children says. It’s the fifth year in a row the number has topped 100,000, and the figure means...