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    Here’s the first newsletter from Rise magazine about Covid-19. Topic covered include Legal representation in NYC Visiting by Video or Phone Resources for Families under… Read More »Rise tips email

    COVID-19 Creates Deep Uncertainty in NYC’s Child-Welfare System

      New York has been hit hard by COVID-19 and parents involved in the child protection system are badly affected. Rachel Blustain describes how, as the US struggles to catch up with the ever-growing Coronavirus crisis, child-welfare systems are racing to find their own solutions to wrenching ethical and practical dilemmas over how to safeguard the psychological well-being of children in foster care and the rights of families while protecting the physical health of children, parents, foster parents, staff and the community at large.