Empowering Youth Advocates in Arizona DCS to Assist Young People Experiencing Trauma

October 2024  From September 16 to 18, Kaylene Quinones, LMSW, Director of Therapeutic & Peer-Led Services and Vincent Madera, Division Director, CV Training Institute and Permanency (CVTI)—the driving forces behind our BraveLife Intervention (BLI) training —headed to Phoenix to lead a three-day training program to the Arizona Department of Child Safety. Kaylene’s and Vincent’s goal? …

Providing Voter Education to Engage Young People with Their Communities

October, 2024- As Election Day approaches and the presidential race takes center stage, the importance of civic education is gaining renewed attention in classrooms across the country. This time of year highlights the need for young people to engage in the democratic process by learning about the foundations of government and the responsibilities of citizenship. …

Nurturing a Love for Reading: How Open Door Library and FLY Inspire Lifelong Learners

September, 2024 As we close out National Literacy Month this September, we’re shining a spotlight on the transformative power of reading in the lives of young people on our Dobbs Ferry campus. We spoke with dedicated staff member Aida Hasanpapaj and volunteers Carol Intner, and Joanne Levine, who shared how the Open Door Library and …

The Children’s Village Prepares Students for a Successful Academic Year

September 2024 As the new school year begins – with many of the students in our community stepping back into classrooms this week – The Children’s Village is ensuring students are prepared for a successful academic year. And that means ensuring they have the supplies they need. This summer, we hosted a CV School Supply …

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New York: The Tale of Two Cities

When Bill de Blasio moved into Gracie Mansion, he became mayor of 59 community districts that constitute New York City. As he eloquently described during his campaign, these districts comprise two distinct cities that have very little in common. For example, just 8* of the 59 districts make up a third of the children removed …

Read CV’s Blog Entry on the New York Community Trust-New York Magazine Nonprofit Excellence Awards Blog

You can now follow a new blog to keep informed about the latest awards news for the Nonprofit Excellence Awards as they continue to honor the ten semifinalists and prepare to announce six finalists for the awards early next month, leading up to the awards in November.  Click here to read what President and CEO Jeremy …

Still Waiting for the Bus

This blog originally appeared on the New York Times–Motherlode: Adventures in Parenting, and was written by KJ Dell’Antonia. Click here to see the original post. Anthony R. got up at about 4:30 Tuesday morning to get to school. “It takes me about two hours,” he told me by phone from his school at the Children’s …

I Stand Up For Bookworms

In my life so far, I have never been in the popular crowd. The popular crowd was made up of the kids everyone else wanted to be — they were funny, had good clothes and money to spend. Instead, I was always the smart girl in class, the one that everyone ignored until they needed …

Fathers Sharing

There they sat; two men, who seemingly had very little in common. George was a pale white man from Jersey with a Masters in Fine Arts from a big university and Kofi was a very dark Ghanaian who came to the US when he was thirteen. He had a high school education.   But there they sat; telling …

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