Our CEO, Kathleen Brady-Stepien visited new CEO of The Children's Home of Kingston, Leila Santana, this week. Welcome to the team, Leila! Congratulations!
Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies (COFCCA)
Public Policy Offices
NY, New York 862 followers
Leadership, Voice, and Vision for Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice in New York State
About us
The Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies is the principal representative for nearly all the voluntary, not-for-profit organizations providing foster care, adoption, family preservation, and special education services in New York State. With 110 member organizations, ranging in size from storefront operations to some of the nation's largest multi-service agencies, COFCCA works with its members and government to ensure quality services for our most vulnerable children - children who have suffered abuse and abandonment and children at-risk.
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http://www.cofcca.org
External link for Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies (COFCCA)
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- Public Policy Offices
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- 11-50 employees
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- NY, New York
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- Nonprofit
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254 West 31st St
5th Floor
NY, New York 10001, US
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879 Madison Avenue
2nd Floor
Albany, NY 12208, US
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254 West 31st Street
5th Floor
New York, NY 10001, US
Employees at Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies (COFCCA)
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Agnes Radford
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Kathleen Brady-Stepien
President and CEO at Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies (COFCCA)
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Sophine Charles
Law Enforcement | Social Justice | Child Welfare | Educator | Race Relations Trainer | Group Leader | Facilitator | Youth Development
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Shanequa E Moore, LMSW,SIFI, Public Policy Certified
Chief Executive Officer @I’RAISE Girls & Boys|LMSW |Subject Matter Expert| Thought Leader
Updates
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This week our President & CEO, Kathleen Brady-Stepien joined Fund for the City of New York for a great event focused on supporting young people’s well being & bolstering mental health supports.
Incredibly insightful discussion this evening at the Fund for the City of New York, a fireside chat with Lisette Nieves & Nancy Santiago. Nancy shared her incredible passion and insight, & a lot of promising practices to address youth well-being. She is a brilliant leader shining the light on young people as mental health peer mentors and supports. Launching soon, initially in four states, is a project she has worked to bring to life, the Youth Mental Health Corps. Excited for the Youth Mental Health Corps to launch in NY, in 2025, & to connect this approach to our COFCCA network: https://lnkd.in/eAP4aX8i
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COFCCA was glad to join our county partners at the 155th New York Public Welfare Association Summer Conference! Reflecting on the conference theme, Refresh, Renew, & Refocus. Pictured: COFCCA CEO Kathleen Brady-Stepien, Thalia Wright, Monroe County Commissioner; John Befus, First Deputy Commissioner, Westchester County; COFCCA Associate Executive Director, Michelle Newman
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Congratulations to Austen and his fellow 2024 Jim Purcell Excellence Awardees! COFCCA was honored to celebrate the 2024 awardees in a virtual ceremony this week with Commissioner Jess Dannhauser & Kate Purcell. Thank you for your inspiring words for our awardees, all working tirelessly to support children & families across NYS!
CHWC is so proud of Austen Schlicht, 2024 Jim Purcell Excellence in Child Welfare Awardee. Thank you to COFCCA for recognizing the power of Austen's journey from youth in foster care to dynamic leader helping youth in foster care dream and achieve! I know Jim Purcell would be proud, as Austen represents the fruit of Jim's life long work! #childrenshome #cofcca #childwelfareexcellance
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Human services nonprofit organizations have become more critical than ever to New York City’s functioning and well-being. These nonprofits deliver the lion’s share of safety net services to vulnerable New Yorkers. They have stepped up again and again in recent years to meet the challenges of multiple crises, from an unprecedented pandemic to the largest wave of immigration in a century to rising rates of poverty, food insecurity, homelessness, and mental illness. But a new report by the Center for an Urban Future, featuring data from COFCCA, has found that New York’s human services sector also faces a huge challenge that directly affects its ability to deliver these much-needed services to millions of New Yorkers: a staffing crisis in which the average human services nonprofit has more than 15 percent of its positions vacant, as well as unsustainably high levels of staff turnover. Now is the time for policymakers to strengthen human services organizations for the long term by ensuring they have the staff they need to provide critical services, through compensation increases, contract forms, and a stronger pathway to careers in the sector. You can check out the full report here: https://lnkd.in/ee9uA8b2
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COFCCA team members Dr. Sophine Charles & Katelyn Greco enjoyed an incredible discussion with OzChild & our member agency, The New York Foundling, earlier this month. We enjoyed learning more from our friends at OzChild how Australia approaches supporting children & families, & shared updates relating to supporting children & families here in the US and in NY! Thank you to The New York Foundling for coordinating and hosting this great discussion and exchange!
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COFCCA’s President & CEO, Kathleen Brady-Stepien, & Associate Executive Director, Dr. Sophine Charles, were glad to join Mayor Eric Adams at Gracie Mansion to celebrate the City’s historic $741 million investment in human services workers! Congratulations and thank you to Mayor Adams, First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright, Deputy Mayors Anne Williams-Isom & Ana Almanzar, Chief Advisor Ingrid Lewis-Martin, & our friends Human Services Council of New York. We look forward to continuing to partner to strengthen the City’s procurement system and fully fund #JustPay.
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COFCCA advocated this week in Albany for more resources to enhance care and support of children and youth in foster care across NYS. Thank you to our members, Northern Rivers Family of Services, The New York Foundling, Children's Aid, & Rising Ground for joining us in advocacy! Pictured here with Assemblymember Chandler-Waterman, Yolanda McBride, NY Foundling; Michelle Avila & Georgia Boothe, Children’s Aid; Nancy Hruska, Rising Ground; Kathleen Brady-Stepien & Michelle Newman, COFCCA. Thank you Assemblymember for your strong support & advocacy!
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COFCCA hosted our first Upstate Housing Forum at the LaSalle School in Albany on Monday. Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado was our Keynote speaker, and his inspiring remarks followed a panel of parent advocates Families Together in New York State highlighting families’ needs and recommendations for housing solutions. We then had two inspiring panel discussions—first a panel discussing programming landscape and lessons learned from providers and government partners (including Dave Bach, Unity House of Troy, Jeremy Kohomban, The Children's Village, Justin Roberts, Greater Opportunities, Sarah Watson, NYS Office of Temporary & Disability Assistance) then followed by a panel discussing cross-system collaboration and how to mobilize resources (featuring Nancy Harrington, CARES of NY, Paul Brady, NYPWA, Commissioner Michael McMahon, Rensselaer County DSS, and Scott Emery, Healthy Alliance). Thank you to everyone who attended the event! A special thank you to our panelists, the LaSalle School and the Upstate Prevention Workgroup, for making this a successful forum!
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Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies (COFCCA) reposted this
The NYHER 1115 Waiver will advance health equity from many angles, plugging into one another. At Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies (COFCCA)'s Upstate Housing Forum, Chief Strategy Officer Scott Emery had the opportunity to talk on the panel about just how NYHER might further it all. Housing, one of NYHER's focuses, can impact a number of social drivers of health in communities. Caring for children also means that families have affordable, safe places to live. #NYHER #1115Waiver #Housing #Childcare #IntersectionsofCare
Honored to have been a panelist (and shared the stage with the group pictured below) at today’s Upstate Housing Forum put on by Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies. Quite a day listening to their work, seeing its intersection with #housing, and, my contribution, what ways #NYHER might further it all. Especially poignant: Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado’s keynote discussing how political advocacy and bolstering of housing needs this group’s leadership and input. Looking forward to more with these organizations!