Standing Committee on Children and Families

December 14, 2017
"That outreach would generally provide the kind of information to the care-givers about the options that are available for foster care, direct placement? Because that is an issue, as you have noted, that they're not aware of …" Assemblymember Ellen Jaffee, Chair of the Assembly Committee on Children and Families, asked Gerard Wallace, Esq., Senior Co-Director of NYS Kinship Navigator, while participating in an Assembly Committee on Children and Families public hearing. The purpose of the hearing is to examine the impact of the state budget on supports for foster parents and caretakers of children removed from their homes. PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE