New York To Close One Of Its Foster Care Agencies
OPEN MINDS, The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst Industry News New York City's Harlem office that runs foster homes in Manhattan and Staten Island will close, Nicholas Scoppetta, Commissioner of the Administration for Children's Services, announced on August 28, 2001. The decision comes after the office had scored at the bottom of a system-wide performance evaluation - significantly below the next worst-performing non-profit foster care agency under contract to the city. The 280 children serviced by this office will be transferred to better-performing agencies, mostly private ones, by September 30, 2001. Most of . . .