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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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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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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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Letter to the Editor: Pandemic Spending Kept Families Together

"Dismantling the pandemic safety net will plunge at-risk families back into financial distress. We fear that child welfare involvement will return to prepandemic levels because poverty is often mistaken for neglect," Center for Family Representation Executive Director Michele Cortese said.
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Common Terms We Use

Learn more about the common terms we use at CFR and why we choose to use certain language like the family policing system instead of the child welfare system in order to accurately reflect the reality that thousands of Black and Brown families experience every day.

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