Child-Welfare Agency Gets Props for New Approach to Helping Families Navigate Challenges
Happy stories rarely land the city’s child-welfare system in the headlines, and the last few weeks have been no exception.
The Administration for Children’s Services stepped in just this past weekend to remove a young boy who reportedly told school officials on Staten Island that his mother beat him when he found her illegal handgun. A lawsuit filed a few days earlier by a former youth detainee claimed he was sexual abused by guards at a juvenile detention facility. Earlier in August, the agency was called into the controversial dispute involving school officials and parents who have sued over treatment of their “gender expansive” son. Before that, a psychotherapist in Dongan Hills pled guilty to groping two young girls referred to him by an ACS contractor. The racial disparities in ACS foster-care placement even got prime-time treatment at a mayoral candidates’ debate. . .