The Children’s Village has been selected as a semifinalist for the 2012 New York Nonprofit Excellence Awards NEW YORK, NY — The Children’s Village (CV) has been selected as one of 10 semifinalists for the 2012 New York Community Trust-New York Magazine Nonprofit Excellence Awards sponsored by The Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York. The …
We have been serving children and families in and from the five boroughs since 1851. Throughout the past decade we have intensified our efforts to work side-by-side with people in the communities in which they live because we know that children do their best when they are part of a family. We partner with families …
Support for Kids in Transition The WAY Home, which is funded entirely by private donations, provides two years of support to foster care young men leaving The Children’s Village campus in Dobbs Ferry and to young men and women leaving family foster care. Older youth who have no family resources can apply for up to …
Helping Parents Navigate a Complex System Project IMPACT (Interventions to Maintain Parents and Children Together) works with parents who have lost their children to foster care, helping them to create safe and loving homes and achieve fast, permanent reunifications. Parents whose children have been placed in foster care are often going through family and personal …
Reuniting Foster Children with Families CV’s STEP (Systemic Therapy Empowerment Program) provides support to foster care youth who are being discharged from residential treatment or therapeutic foster boarding homes and reuniting with their families. Nationally, the rate of failure of reunifications is 15% in the first year the children are home. Our STEP Program was designed …
A Typical College Student In many ways, Lloyd J. is a typical college student. In his senior year at SUNY Cobleskil, he works part-time, plays tennis, thinks a lot about what he will do after graduation, and spends breaks from school with his family. But Lloyd is far from typical. He spent most of his …
Coming Full Circle The Children’s Village was founded in 1851 to care for children legally removed from their parents, many who were children of the new immigrants of New York City. Started in 2004, the Unidos por un Sueño (United for a Dream) program provides family reunification and short-term shelter for children who have come …
A Focus on Effectiveness The ultimate goal of all of our programs is to prepare youth to be successful as adults. To that end, we track educational success, work experience, family reunification, housing stability, avoidance of arrests, and other measures that indicate how well youth are achieving goals. Following are some of our recent outcomes: …
President and CEO Dr. Jeremy Christopher Kohomban is the President and CEO of The Children’s Village and the President of Harlem Dowling. The child welfare organizations collectively serve over 17,000 children and families each year with community-based programs, family support services, and residential care. Dr. Kohomban is a leading national advocate for reforms to the …
New York City recognized the need to care for orphans as early as 1653, but the government never did enough for the needy. Fortunately, there were always some citizens who gave their money and time to help, and by 1900, there were dozens of new institutions—settlement houses, charity organizations, and religious groups—who tried to fill …
