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: …
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 …
A Second Chance for At-Risk Boys At our residential campus in Dobbs Ferry, boys (6 to 20 years old) who have emotional and behavioral challenges have a chance to grow in an enriched and structured program aimed at preparing them to be successful members of their families and communities. Our program focuses on encouraging a …
CV’s residential school offers real hope of reversing the odds for the most at-risk adolescent boys in our community. Some of these youth are in foster care, some were displaying significant behavioral problems in school and their Committee for Special Education has recommended residential treatment, others have committed a minor crime and CV is their last chance …
