Action Research works with many stakeholders in the New York City child welfare system, including the NYC Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), the Family Court, advocates for children and parents, private service providers and others working to improve the lives of New York’s most vulnerable children and families.
This project, which I worked on from 2014 to 2018, aims to improve permanency outcomes for children in foster care—through returning children to their parents, and guardianship or adoption when that isn’t possible. With our partners at Public Catalyst, I led innovative analytic work to support this initiative, including analyzing administrative data from multiple government agencies with SQL, Python, and SPSS.
In ACS’s 2016 Year-End Foster Care Strategic Blueprint Status Report, the agency highlighted that “from FY 2015 to FY 2016, ACS increased the number of children achieving permanency through kinship guardianship (KinGAP) by 25% and adoption by 5%, even as the overall numbers of children in foster care continued to decline.”
Read more about the project on the Redlich Horwitz Foundation website and in ACS's 2017 Year-End Foster Care Strategic Blueprint Status Report.
