The Child Welfare Fund

BOOKS/MANUALS
The Survival Guide to the Child Welfare System: A Workbook for Parents by Parents*
Legal Support Unit of Legal Services for NYC
Caroline Kearney (212) 431-7200

Quick Insights Booklets
A series of 21 booklets with different themes on child welfare written by teens in foster care and parents with system involvement
Youth Communication
Keith Hefner (212) 279-0708x102

NEWSLETTERS
For Parents by Parents
The Child Welfare Organizing Project
Sharonne Salaam (212) 368-8600

People United for Children
Mike Arsham (212) 348-3000

Grandparents Advocacy Project
Kathy Gibson (718) 863-4776

NEWSPAPERS/JOURNALS
Child Welfare Watch
Pivot Point: Managing the Transformation of Child Welfare in NYC
Center for New York City Affairs, New School University, Center for Urban Future and City Limits Information Services, Inc
Keith Hefner (212) 279-0708

Represent:
The Voice of Youth in Foster Care
Youth Communication
Andrew White (212) 229-1506

REPORTS
Learning from Experience: Rights Won by Parents and Consumers in the Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities System and the Lessons Learned for Young People in the Child Welfare System
Prepared by Hilary Russ for the Child Welfare Fund and the FAR Fund of the Fund for Social Change.
Contact: David Tobis (212) 529-0110

*Written by a collaboration of parents, social workers, law students and lawyers from the following organizations: Brooklyn Legal Services (BLS), Child Welfare Organizing Project (CWOP), The Child Welfare Project of the Office of the NYC Public Advocate (formerly C-PLAN), Legal Information for Families Today (LIFT), The Legal Support Unit of Legal Services for NYC (LSNY) and NYU Law School’s Family Defense Clinic.