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Family Miranda law gains traction, advocates call out racist ACS practices

December 29, 2022

Ari Chiarella, a social work supervisor and co-director of CFR’s Queens family defense practice, and Teyora Graves, a parent advocate supervisor at CFR, were interviewed for this Amsterdam News piece on Family Miranda and an internal ACS audit that revealed racially-biased practices.

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December 12, 2022

Opinion: Stop tearing America’s families apart

CFR Executive Director Michele Cortese—along with leaders from the Bronx Defenders, Neighborhood Defender Service, and Brooklyn Defender Services—wrote an op-ed for the Daily News about the harms of the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA).

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December 02, 2022

NYC children’s agency buries report that details racial bias in its ranks

Ysmerlyn Murshed, a social work supervisor at CFR, and Teyora Graves, a parent advocate supervisor at CFR, were interviewed for a Gothamist piece about an ACS internal audit that revealed that workers themselves feel the agency’s mandate to ensure the welfare of the city’s children is severely undermined by systemic racial bias.

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November 29, 2022

Report: ACS Knows It Has Pervasive Racial Bias

The New York City Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) has a racial bias problem, and it is one that is so obvious that the organization was outed by one of its own reports. Included is a quote from Michele Cortese, Executive Director of the Center for Family Representation.

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November 23, 2022

Public Defenseless Podcast: The Need for Holistic Family Representation

In this episode, Hunter Parnell speaks with CFR’s Parent Advocate Supervisor Teyora Graves-Ferrell, Social Work Supervisor Ysmerlyn Murshed, and Senior Staff Attorney Vasili Stotis.

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