New York City Foster Care Report

Most of the Foster Care Committee's specific recommendations are purely administrative in nature. Thus, for example, Recommendation Number Three under "Appropriate Geographical Services," proposes that "CWA Case Managers should be stationed at local field offices" (Mayor's Commission, 1993, p. 40). However, taken as a whole, the Foster Care Committee's report asserts a distinctive and potentially controversial position in child care services. As stated in the Introduction to its report,

The Committee decided to carry out its deliberations

within the framework of a model depicting the range of services needed by all the city's families, at all

economic levels -- and not just those "in" the foster

care system. It proposed a comprehensive "Spectrum of

. . .
ramework around which the Mayor's commission developed its report to examine some of those specifics, and their implications. The report includes a brief history of the development of child services and of controversies over child services, and an outline of the scale and scope of these services, and of the children they reach. As of 1993, approximately 48,000 children were being cared for in foster services or related services. They were overwhelmingly members of minority groups; 72.6 percent were African American, and 20.3 percent were Latino (Mayor's Commission, 1993, p. 29). Since 1991, the number of placements per month had dropped substantially, from an average of about 1300 per month in 1991 to 700 per month in 1993. The reasons for the drop are unclear, although it may be linked to an emphasis, already developed in recent years, upon keeping families intact where possible. Part of the reduction in placements may also be due to a reduction in crack use in the past few years. As noted above, the framework in which the Foster Care committee operated was the so-called Spectrum of Care. The components of this spectrum were identified as follows: Family Support and Community Service -- This is the voluntary level of
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