AFC 致力于改变教育政策，以便公立学校系统能够服务于 全部 儿童有效。我们发布政策报告和数据分析，在市和州两级作证，在媒体上发声，让人们关注我们所服务的学生和家庭面临的挑战，并与其他倡导者、家长、青少年和教育工作者一起呼吁改变。
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AFC 在医院委员会的市议会听证会上就 2023 财年初步预算作证，敦促市政府投资一个综合性系统，以确保学生在学校能够获得行为和心理健康支持。.
AFC testified before the City Council Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction and the Committee on Health on the need to invest in a comprehensive, integrated system of mental health and behavioral health supports for students.
AFC 在纽约市议会心理健康、残疾和成瘾委员会面前作证，谈到青少年心理健康危机，以及迫切需要建立一个全面的系统来确保我们的年轻人能够在学校获得行为和心理健康支持。
Mayor-elect Eric Adams will take office at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the longstanding inequities in our City’s schools. Based on our 50 years of on-the-ground experience helping students and families navigate the largest school system in the country and get the support they need to learn, we outline some of the most pressing challenges in public education — including those that pre-date COVID — where the incoming Mayor must be prepared to focus attention, energy, and resources.
AFC testified before the City Council Committee on Public Safety, joining the call from students, parents, and educators for police-free schools and urging the City to eliminate the reliance on the New York City Police Department to address the needs of students in our schools.
AFC testified before the New York City Council Committee on Education on the City’s plan to hire 250 new School Safety Agents (SSAs), rather than invest in the social-emotional and mental health supports our students need so profoundly at this point in time.
AFC submitted public comments to the U.S. Department of Education on the exclusionary, punitive school discipline and police policies and practices faced by New York City public school students, the disproportionate impact these policies and practices have on Black and Brown students and students with disabilities, and promising alternative practices.
本报告探讨了警方对 12,000 多项“儿童危机”干预措施的响应数据，在干预措施中，情绪困扰的学生被带离课堂并送往医院进行心理评估。这些干预措施中，黑人学生、就读 75 区学校的学生和就读位于低收入有色人种社区学校的学生占了很大比例。我们呼吁市政府通过取消学校警察并投资于行为和心理健康支持和服务来结束对情绪危机学生的定罪。
AFC testified before the New York City Council Committee on Public Safety at a hearing on the Mayor’s New York City Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative Draft Plan.
With the federal government having approved the largest one-time investment in education in our nation’s history, NYC needs an ambitious education initiative to pave the way to hope and opportunity for this generation of students. Such a plan must invest resources in academic support, mental health support, and outreach and engagement. It must be targeted to assist students disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, including the provision of specialized instruction and support where needed. This plan outlines our recommendations for steps the City should take.