Article: City gets its foster population down by keeping service provision local.(New York City Child Welfare)

New York City's focus on keeping its foster children in their old neighborhoods and going to the same schools may be helping the city keep down its foster care population.

At least, that was the case made by William Bell, commissioner of the city's Administration for Children and Families (ACF) before Congress last month. Bell was asked to talk about ACF's reforms before the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Resources.

What ACF calls "neighborhood-based services" (NBS) has broken down the child-welfare bureaucracy into 25 service networks in the city's "high-needs" communities. By getting health care, preventive services and foster care in the ...

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