Last Look at the NYS 2022-23 Budget

Last Look at the NYS 2022-23 Budget

Last Look is our assessment of the enacted State budget and how it advances priorities that improve the health and well-being of all New Yorkers, especially children and families living in poverty.  

There is much to celebrate in this 2022-23 New York State Budget. The final budget contains some extraordinary investments in New York State children and families. 

Unfortunately, this budget is also a story of missed opportunity. New York leaders were presented with an unexpected revenue surplus and a strong economy, yet failed to make transformative investments in children and families, or even restore funding cuts undertaken in leaner times. 

Read Schuyler Center’s Last Look at the 2022-23 Budget.

Leading Child Care Advocates Join with Schuyler Center to Urge the NYS Congressional Delegation to Prioritize Children and Families in the Next Federal Stimulus

Leading Child Care Advocates Join with Schuyler Center to Urge the NYS Congressional Delegation to Prioritize Children and Families in the Next Federal Stimulus

The COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a terrific blow to families and communities in New York and the systems that provide essential health and human services. Even as the State begins to recover, it is clear that those already facing challenges of poverty, disability, ill-health, racial discrimination, and poor mental health were ravaged by this illness. These same families have also been more sharply impacted by school closures, layoffs, supply shortages, social distancing, and other fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The plain truth is that while the pandemic abruptly ruptured the often tenuous yet interconnected systems on which poor families rely, New York cannot rebuild alone. It will need extraordinary support from the federal government for state and local governments to pull out of this crisis and into recovery. Federal funds are essential to prevent New York State from slashing social services, education, child care, child welfare, and other family and child-serving programs.

On July 20, New York State child advocates joined together to urge Congress to stand firmly with children and families during negotiations on the next federal stimulus package. These advocacy organizations, dedicated to improving the lives of New Yorkers, particularly children living in poverty and in marginalized communities, outlined a set of appropriations and actions that need to be included in the next federal stimulus package to support families with young children and keep many of them from slipping into intractable poverty.

View our letter to the Members of the New York State Congressional Delegation.[/vc_column_text]

Highlights from Schuyler Center’s Sold-Out Policy Forum on Transforming Child Welfare

Schuyler Center’s December 13th policy forum, Transforming Child Welfare and Children’s Lives:  Proven Strategies that Strengthen Families, was a tremendous success. The sold-out crowd included advocates, providers, policymakers, foster care alumni, new friends and old. Speakers included Sheila J. Poole, Acting Commissioner of NYS Office of Children and Family ServicesLinda S. Spears, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families; Molly McGrath Tierney, Director of the Baltimore City Department of Social Services; Anni Keane and Rosie Williams, alumnae of the foster care system and advocates for You Gotta Believe; and Jeanette Vega, a parent previously involved with the child welfare system and now a parent leader for Rise. The speakers were inspiring in their passion, and in the practical suggestions they offered. 

Click here to read highlights from the event.

Schuyler Center’s Kate Breslin publishes article on the opportunity value-based payment for children presents for improving children’s health

Kate Breslin’s article, Opportunities to improve children’s health by focusing on value, appears in the Winter 2017 issue of Behavioral Health News. The article explains that New York’s transformation of its health delivery system presents a significant opportunity to improve children’s health and well-being, but cautions that it also could “further systematize underspending” on children if it applies “adult-focused value-based payment principles to the child population.” Click here to read the article, which includes proposed recommendations the Schuyler Center urges the newly-formed subcommittee of the State’s Value-Based Payment Workgroup to consider as the subcommittee fulfills its charge of making recommendations for creating a value-based payment model for children. 

Schuyler Center 2016 Policy Forum

Seats are filling quickly for the Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy’s December 13th Policy Forum on Innovative Approaches to Transforming Child Welfare Systems to keep children physically safe and provide them the best opportunity to thrive.  Join conversation with our speakers –

  • Sheila Poole, Acting Commissioner of NYS Office of Children and Family Services;
  • Linda Spears, Commissioner of Massachusetts Department of Children and Families;
  • Molly McGrath Tierney, Director of Baltimore City Department of Social Services;
  • Anni Keane of You Gotta Believe;  
  • Jeanette Vega of Rise and;
  • Rosie Williams of You Gotta Believe

Learn more about these amazing women.

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