title: The New York City neighborhood-based services strategy.
abstract: The New York City Administration for Children's Services (ACS) instituted a neighborhood-based services system through the realignment of all foster care, preventive, and protective services along community district lines. ACS, with its community partners, also formed neighborhood-based networks to improve service coordination and collaboration among key community stakeholders and to shape a multisystem strategy tailored to each district informed by child welfare data. Based on analysis of neighborhood-specific census tract child welfare data, ACS initiated the Community Partnership to Strengthen Families project to address the disproportionate number of foster care placements originating from a small group of high-need communities, including Manhattan's Central Harlem. This article describes examples of specific strategies based on the Central Harlem experience.
authors.affiliation: Office of External Affairs, New York City Administration for Children's Services, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Zeinab
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Chahine
authors.forename: Justine
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: van Straaten
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Williams-Isom
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019058:Community Networks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005581:Foster Home Care; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D009519:New York City; D019982:Organizational Case Studies