Selected Grants: Child Welfare Policy
Center for the Study of Social Policy	2006:	$15,000
Washington, DC
www.cssp.org
To help support the September 13-15, 2006 National Convening on Youth Permanence organized by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Casey Family Services.
Center on Addiction and the Family	2008:	$25,000
New York, NY
www.coaf.org
To support the development of a website and public information campaign to help New York City substance abuse, child welfare, and family court professionals become more knowledgeable about each others’ systems and procedures.
Child Welfare League of America	2007:	$6,500
Washington, DC
www.cwla.org
To help fund a special double issue of the journal, Child Welfare that will focus on racial disproportionality in the child welfare system.
Child Welfare Organizing Project	2006, 2007:	$4,000
New York, NY
www.cwop.org
For general support for parent involvement and advocacy designed to transform the quality of services provided to families through the New York City child welfare system.
Correctional Association of New York	2008:	$25,000
New York, NY
www.correctionalassociation.org
To support the Women in Prison Project and its work advocating for family visiting and reunification programs in New York State prisons.
MFY Legal Services	2006, 2008:	$45,000
New York, NY
www.mfy.org
To help support development of a new pro bono network of attorneys who provide direct legal services for caregivers, and to advance public policy and practice that will benefit caregivers and the children they are raising.
New School University	2006:	$35,000
Milano Graduate Center
Center for New York City Affairs
New York, NY
www.newschool.edu/milano
To support the Project to Advance Innovation in New York City Child Protective Services. Its goal is to reshape the perception of the child welfare system by the general public, as well as human service and public policymakers, by moving the focus to family engagement practices, rather than a more traditional adversarial approach between social worker and client.
New York University School of Law	2006:	$40,000
New York, NY
www.law.nyu.edu/
To help fund a supervising social worker faculty position in the Family Defense Clinic. The goal of the Clinic is to improve parental representation by attorneys in child welfare cases, utilizing collaborative working relationships with social workers.
University of Pennsylvania	2006-2009:	$94,079
School of Social Policy and Practice
Philadelphia, PA
www.sp2.upenn.edu
For The Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Research at the School of Social Policy and Practice to support development of new systems for gathering and managing information to improve child safety and accountability.
Veritas
New York, NY
www.veritas-inc.com
	2007:	$25,000
To support a unique collaboration with the New York State Department of Probation, where Veritas will place an on-site Certified Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC). Veritas will identify and screen probationers likely to be substance abusers, and connect them with appropriate treatment services.
	2009:	$25,000
To fund a Management Information System that will enable Veritas to collect and analyze key program data about families and children, better inform Veritas' decisions about methods of providing services for families and children, and help promote public policy and practice that will enhance permanency planning for vulnerable families whose children are in foster care or at risk of placement.
Youth Communications	2007:	$35,000
New York, NY
www.youthcomm.org
To be used to enhance and expand use of Rise, a magazine for parents of children involved in the foster care system. Enhancements include developing new methods for using Rise stories in discussion groups and staff trainings, and creating an independent Rise website.