Jess Dannhauser

The New York City Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) takes its mission to keep children safe and families supported seriously, and our commitment to strengthening this work never stops.

The debate in child welfare has become polarized: intervene in families' lives more often to protect children, or abolish the child welfare system because it perpetuates racially disparate outcomes and...

I will always remember a call I got when I was leading a foster care agency, from a talented young man in foster care during his first week in college. "I am...