Healing Embedded Trauma: What City Leaders Should and Can Do

Socially based trauma can be internalized, with devastating effects. It can also be healed.

Racial Equity, Children, Youth & FamilySeth MoncreaseDecember 1, 2021march232021-onward

The Need to ‘Decolonize’ Parenting: A Q&A On Family Healing with Erasma Beras-Monticciolo

Let’s recognize how a legacy of colonial oppression, and the everyday realities of structural racism, can warp and weaken family bonds.

Racial Equity, Children, Youth & FamilySeth MoncreaseNovember 23, 2021march232021-onward

Foster Care Youth Face a Pandemic Cliff. Congress Needs to Protect Them Now.

Covid-19 puts young people aging out of foster care at immediate, heightened risk of homelessness and unemployment.

Covid-19, Children, Families, Youth, Youth & FamilySeth MoncreaseSeptember 29, 2021march232021-onward

Communitywide Trauma Demands Holistic Healing for Black and Latinx New Yorkers

The time is ripe for a holistic strategy to strengthen historically traumatized communities.

Workforce Investment Will Improve Human Services Delivery

A new career ladders program is designed to reduce workplace inequality, stabilize a high-turnover workforce, and improve essential services.

Children, Families, Youth, Inequality and PovertySeth MoncreaseJune 15, 2021march232021-onward

Why a Child Welfare ‘Miranda Rights’ Law Is Essential | A Q&A with Advocate and Organizer Joyce McMillan

Child protective workers exercise powers akin to those of police officers – so they should also provide the same legal protections the police must.

Children, Youth, Youth & Family, FamiliesSeth MoncreaseJune 2, 2021march232021-onward

Addressing Racial Inequity in Child Welfare: The Key Role of Prevention Services

Racial disparity has been the legacy of the child welfare system. It doesn’t have to be its future.

Children, Families, Inequality and Poverty, Racial EquitySeth MoncreaseApril 14, 2021march232021-onward

It’s Time for Boldness, Not Retreat: Strengthen Services for Families in Need.

Stopping unnecessary, punitive child welfare investigations is the right thing to do.

Children, Families, Youth, Inequality and PovertySeth MoncreaseMarch 17, 2021UM march23-past

Make Youth Employment a Priority Now

Young people in communities hit hard by Covid-19 want to work while they learn, and help support their families.

Putting Out The Dumpster Fire Of New York’s School Reopening

There can no longer be any doubt that the City’s plan for reopening schools is falling apart. But there’s a way of saving this school year so that children who need the most get it.

Covid-19, Education, Children, Families, YouthSeth MoncreaseSeptember 30, 2020UM march23-past

Child Care in the Time of Covid-19: Lessons for the City’s Re-opening

The experience of emergency child care centers serving the children of essential workers at the height of the pandemic offers insights about re-opening New York’s early education programs.

Covid-19, Children, Families, Youth, EducationSeth MoncreaseJuly 15, 2020UM march23-past

Services Strengthening Families Will Be Vital in a Re-opening NYC

More prevention services, not more reliance on foster care, should be on the agenda as the pandemic crisis starts to lift.

Children, Covid-19Seth MoncreaseJune 24, 2020

What Will September Look Like? Perhaps Not What You Think.

For the next school year, here are six key things officials must be focusing on right now.

Covid-19, Children, Families, Education, YouthSeth MoncreaseMay 6, 2020UM jun242020-past

Six Principles Should Guide Helping Kids Learn from Home in the Covid-19 Era

I’ve learned a lot about what it means to learn and teach with technology. Let me share some advice for parents and teachers. Forget the products. Focus on principles.

Covid-19, Families, Youth, Education, Children, ArchiveSeth MoncreaseApril 8, 2020UM march23-past