AFFCNY – Support, Information and Advocacy for Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Families
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The Coalition unites foster, adoptive and kinship care families, giving them a voice and providing the support, information and advocacy. By fostering communication and collaboration between families, agencies and concerned citizens, we seek to ensure the stability, well-being and permanency of all children touched by the child welfare system.
AFFCNY – Support, Information and Advocacy for Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Families
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Register now for the next round of ONLINE Reframing Parenting Workshops that will be starting on April 3, 2024 ..read more
AFFCNY – Support, Information and Advocacy for Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Families
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Presented in partnership with Adoption Network Cleveland and Adoption Knowledge Affiliates; Join us on April 1 in the AFFCNY.Network for the American online debut of this special new film: Somebody’s Daughter by Zara Phillips. TO REGISTER AT ANC CLICK HERE ..read more
AFFCNY – Support, Information and Advocacy for Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Families
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AFFCNY – Support, Information and Advocacy for Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Families
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Services Provided:Special education advocacy and litigation, special needs estate planning including special needs trust administration and litigation, guardianship, Medicaid, OPWDD, and other administrative appeals.
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Address: 143 Broadway
Suite 107
Hawthorne
New York
10532
Phone: (914) 465-9913
Email: Aarkontaky@arkontakylaw.com
Online: https://arkontakylawgroup.com
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AFFCNY – Support, Information and Advocacy for Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Families
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Requires child protective services to orally and in writing disclose certain information to parents and caretakers who are the subject of a child protective services investigation; requires such oral and written disclosure to contain certain information regarding the rights of the person under investigation.
NYS S901 \ A1980
NYT ARTICLE: Child Abuse Investigators Traumatize Families, Lawsuit Charges
Lawyers for a group of New York City parents argue that the Administration for Children’s Services uses “coercive tactics” that traumatize the families it is charged with pro ..read more
AFFCNY – Support, Information and Advocacy for Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Families
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H.R. 6529, the PAPA Act, would establish a national responsible father registry consisting of information about possible biological fathers identified in any responsible father registry established by any State or Indian tribe, and seek to have the information in each such responsible father registry provided to the national registry voluntarily.
The Protecting All Parents and Adoptees (PAPA) Act would link state responsible father registries, essentially creating a comprehensive national resource that would:
1) Empower men and protect their parental rights by enabling them to regi ..read more
AFFCNY – Support, Information and Advocacy for Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Families
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The extension of the definition of a “prospective relative guardian” would eliminate the need for the kinship guardian to have a pre-placement relationship with the child; therefore, increasing permanency options for children in foster care and making sibling groups eligible to be placed together in KinGAP arrangements.
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An expansion of KinGap eligibility would provide a birth parent an alternative before the court terminated their parental rights. The law and the interpretation by the cou ..read more
AFFCNY – Support, Information and Advocacy for Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Families
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Equal Citizenship for Children Act would help intercountry adoptees who are without US citizenship by amending current immigration law, plus making the changes and the law retroactive for people born after 1940.
The Equal Citizenship for Children Act would amend current law so that those who were or are under 18 years of age and residing in the United States in the legal custody of a US citizen parent (whether adoptive or biological and including naturalized US citizens) would automatically acquire US citizenship, retroactive to those born after 12:00pm EST on January 9, 1941. The perso ..read more
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