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Rise Manhattan Court Presentation Handout

Rise had an outstanding year in 2015! We celebrated our 10th anniversary–and doubled our budget. So many of you contributed to our success. Thank you.

Some highlights:

* Our parent leaders presented to 500 professionals in November, including Congressional staff, Bronx and Manhattan Family Court, ACS attorneys and new child protective staff.

* We ran our first writing workshop at a foster care agency, Graham Windham, as well as a workshop for frontline staff to reflect on their work … Read More

Rise parent leaders met with Congressional staff November 10 to educate them about the need to expand prevention so that children stay safe at home and out of foster care. At a lunch put together by Casey Family Programs and Children’s Village, four Rise parents described their experiences with foster care and preventive services; three of the parents had themselves grown up in foster care.

Senator Ron Wyden has sponsored a bill, the Family First Act, … Read More

Two years ago, Rise’s director, Nora McCarthy, said to me, “Hey, we got invited to do a presentation at ACS (New York City’s child welfare agency) to some top professionals in child welfare. Let’s write something up.”

Whoah, I was nervous. “How many people?” I asked.

She said, “50 or 100.”

Working on my speech, I was super excited. I really wanted to be heard and to tell professionals how we as parents feel trying to get our … Read More

Rise’s 10th Anniversary Event Journal includes stories that trace our growing portrait of parents in the child welfare system.

Including quotes from noted journalists Andrew Solomon, Tracy Kidder, Rachel Aviv, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc and event host and Marie Claire editor-in-chief Anne Fulenwider, the journal celebrates Rise’s contribution to coverage of parents affected by the child welfare system.

In June 2005, after four years of running writing workshops with parents affected by the child welfare system, we published our … Read More