NYC FAMILY POLICY PROJECT

NYC Family Policy Project's mission is to explore and build evidence - through original research, data and policy analysis - for the policy visions of parents and young people impacted by the child welfare system in New York City... Central to our theory of change is that, with greater information about local child welfare impacts and the drivers of child welfare involvement, more organizations that don't think of themselves as involved in reducing over-reliance on child welfare can get involved in making meaningful improvements to neighborhood life that reduce family stress and state intervention. Secondly, our guiding belief is that good policy decisions are made by diverse groups of informed people, particularly those whose lives will be most impacted by the policy, who collaborate to work through complexity and disagreements and hold real power to develop solutions. Our broader goal is to build a stronger culture of that kind of work around family policy in NYC.