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Strengthening Child Protective Services and Prevention Programs
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Our Recommendations for Health

  • Maternal Health and
    Systems Building
  • Fight Teen Smoking

Successfully advocate for significant funding from NYS (Medicaid, FLPPS, and/or NYSED) to support maternal health and All Kids Thrive's systems-building proposals in Rochester.

Enact the Governor's proposed tobacco control package to raise the age of sale to 21+ and increase funding for the Tobacco Control Board.

Our Recommendations for Safety

  • Reducing CPS
    Workers' Caseload
  • Prevention First
  • State Central
    Registry Reforms

Monroe County should hire CPS Caseworkers, with a goal or reaching the evidence-based standard of caseload ratios of 12:1.

Increase State and County funding for evidence-based preventive programs that avoid foster care placement and strengthen family functioning; restore NYS's share of preventive funding to 65%.

NYS should reform the State Central Registry (SCR) to remove unnecessary and unfair employment barriers for parents and to make the process to challenge SCR listings more fair and efficient.

Health & Safety News and Alerts

Capitol Pressroom – Parents largely in the dark about child care assistance
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Parents and children’s advocates respond to RCSD return to in-person learning
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Tell the Governor: Children Must Be Our Highest Priority
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NY Gov. Hochul signs bill for $40M Early Intervention fund but sidesteps formula change
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Hochul signs special education bills into law; $240M in state funding to private schools
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Health & Safety

Our vision is all children are born healthy, families and communities are safe and nurturing and every family has high quality health care

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Victories

  • Monroe County committed a meaningful $1.7 million increase in 2018 funding for programs that help prevent child abuse and neglect.  Prevention through evidence-based programs has always been the signature focus of our advocacy efforts for children, consistently and persistently for many years.
  • In its 2019 Budget, Monroe County increased its investment in programs to prevent child maltreatment by $600,000 and added 30 case aide positions in Child Protective Services.

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Rochester, NY 14614

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The Children’s Agenda advocates for effective policies and drives evidenced-based solutions for the health, education and success of children. We are especially committed to children who are vulnerable because of poverty, racism, health inequities and trauma.

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