Annual Reports

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2001 - present

Lasting Change Children's Aid continually strives for new and inventive ways to see underserved children and families through hard times. By evolving our thinking, we can work to anticipate needs and craft sustainable change that works.

Making the Difference The current economic crisis is straining our social fabric, making The Children’s Aid Society’s work even more vital to the increasing number of children and families who need our help.

Youth at the Crossroads - Learn more about how Children's Aid engages and meets the needs of at-risk youth in New York City.

Community Schools - Opening Doors of Opportunity This annual report illustrates the breadth and scope of Children’s Aid’s community schools strategy that is effective in overcoming the challenges to education presented by immigration and poverty.

The Need To Succeed: Teens Chart Their Course The goal of all of Children’s Aid’s teen initiatives is the same, whether the program area is in the arts, juvenile justice, health or foster care: to help teens achieve the independence they need to develop and to help them improve the skills and knowledge they will need to use that independence successfully.

Rising to the Challenge HUNGER, HOMELESSNESS , insufficient EDUCATION , inadequate HEALTH services, systemic issues in FOSTER CARE and subsidized adoption and TEEN PREGNANCY. Children’s Aid not only identified and analyzed these major social issues but established inventive and tested programs to address them.

Growing Up Healthy In this annual report, The Children’s Aid Society (CAS) focuses on the health of poor children in New York City and how CAS responds to their needs. According to CAS Director of Health Services Beverly Colon, a single word describes the state of our children’s health: underserved.

Children's Services: Today and Tomorrow Meeting the evolving needs of children and families two years after the attacks of September 11th, 2001. We live in a world that is more uncertain than before, and this makes daily life ever more difficult for children and families – especially children and families struggling in poverty. How do we accept the reality of our new existence without fostering insecurity and pessimism in children and teens who don’t yet have a firm fix on the future? How do we promote a hopeful worldview to young people and parents who see only hopelessness all around them?

An Enduring Mission in Times of Change In 2002, The Children’s Aid Society proved that “We’re Everywhere You Look” is not just a slogan. While the city reeled from a devastating terrorist attack and a severe economic downturn, Children's Aid opened its doors and its arms to thousands of victims’ families and displaced workers through our newly created World Trade Center Relief unit. The agency distributed millions in emergency cash assistance and provided desperately needed counseling, benefits assistance, child care, scholarship help and more.

On the Front Lines of Change The Children's Aid Society’s birth was in a context of change. And the aura of innovation that has surrounded CAS since its inception has propelled the agency to more far-reaching innovations in the decades since. Our list of “firsts” is long, but the longer reach belongs to how those “firsts” have impacted children across the nation.