On Track for Healthy and Productive Lives Inwood House’s Continuum of Care is a proven, successful program that provides education and support for pregnant and parenting teens. The program, which serves primarily young women but also includes services for fathers, is designed to: Increase young parents’ sense of self-worth and self-efficacy Improve the health of …
Affordable — and Beautiful — Building Rises in Harlem The Children’s Village completed construction of a 10-story building at 2139 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, in the heart of Harlem, in 2017. The building – on the site of a formerly vacant lot – was developed to help fill the need for affordable housing (an …
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.” This quote is the first thing you see when you walk into Phyllis Moore’s cozy and colorful home in the Morris Heights neighborhood of The Bronx. The walls and shelves are plastered with family photographs of her three biological sons, four granddaughters, and …
My mom was a prostitute and a crack addict. My parents had been getting a check for me. My mom took the check and spent it on whatever – drugs, alcohol, etc. She came back a week later and her and my dad got into an argument and he tried to kill her because he …
A Family-Based Prevention and Intervention Program Download a brochure for our FFT-CW Program (in English and Spanish) Overview FFT-CW is a family-based program that helps families make positive changes in their homes. A typical treatment process consists of 4 months of weekly at-home sessions. FFT-CW therapists: increase knowledge of child development strengthen parent/children relationships enhance caregivers’ …
At CV, we use professional experience and data-driven outcomes to inform best practices. We believe it is important to share these practices with our colleagues in the field. Staff members across the agency are encouraged to publish in professional publications and present at conferences. Below are recent examples of our staff’s work in the field. …
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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 …
