On Thursday, October 12, 2023 we are presenting at the Rutgers Law School Symposium: What’s Next? Supporting Children, Youth, and Families in a Post-Abolition World.  YouthNPower: Transforming Care Collective members Denice Ocana and Julia Davis will be discussing our vision for community support, including centering lived expertise, expanding direct cash transfers and guaranteed income, and the need for a Child and Family Wellbeing Fund in New York.  Join us by registering online or in-person here.

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights – New York Child Welfare System and its Impact on Black Children and Families. In April 2023, Mya Martinez, Christine Joseph and Grace Tatom from the YouthNPower: Transforming Care Collective offered powerful oral testimony before the Commission about their vision for collective care and transformation in child welfare.  Check back soon for the Collective’s written testimony in August 2023.   

Upstream City: To Change Conditions for Families, Shift Power Out of Systems. In February 2023, YouthNPower: Transforming Care collective members Embraia Fraizer was quoted in this powerful piece in The Imprint about community power and the Child and Family Wellbeing Fund in New York. 

New York Child Welfare Advocates Call on Lawmakers to Prevent Foster Care Through Community Investment.  In February 2023, YouthNPower: Transforming Care collective members were in Albany to educate members about the need for deep community investments through a new Child and Family Wellbeing Fund.