NEW YORK -- Over the past 15 years or so, Pedro Maldonado, Nigel Warren and Brieanna Hayes, all now in their 20s, cumulatively lived in about 39 different foster homes in New York City. Pedro, who is Italian, was lucky: He ultimately settled in with a caring Mexican family for more than a decade before
NEW YORK — Over the past 15 years or so, Pedro Maldonado, Nigel Warren and Brieanna Hayes, all now in their 20s, cumulatively lived in about 39 different foster homes in New York City. Pedro, who is Italian, was lucky: He ultimately settled in with a caring Mexican family for more than a decade before he aged out of the system and began living on his own.
Despite the prevalence of these Dickensian anecdotes, New York City’s foster care system has been considered an enormous success in recent years, a potential model for the rest of the country where thousands of children suspended in the opioid crisis have required an ever greater number of caregivers.
It is one of the essential paradoxes of life in New York that you are much more likely to find a foster parent in a small apartment belonging to the New York City Housing Authority than in a triplex on West End Avenue with its own gym. While there is obviously truth to that kind of judgment, it is also the case that the rigidity of the foster-care system can keep well-meaning people away.
Yet after she finished the course, the agency that would have matched Turner with a child rejected her application on the grounds that she had to travel sporadically for work. She did have backup in mind — her mother, close friends committed to the same causes. Turner understood the need for continuity and routine in the life any who child who had experienced trauma. Still she was baffled.
According to Kathryn Conroy, formerly the assistant dean of Columbia University’s School of Social Work and an expert in the history of child welfare, rules have typically been made reactively rather than proactively, without a sense of vision.
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