title: Serving immigrant families and children in New York City's child welfare system.
abstract: This article describes the efforts and special initiatives of New York City's Administration for Children's Services to improve services to immigrant and English language learner populations. Children's Services convened an immigration issues advisory subcommittee, created special tools for child welfare staff, collaborated with legal agencies to assist foster children with immigration status adjustments, improved agency data collection, and launched an agency-wide training initiative on immigration issues. The challenges encountered by Children's Services offer important insight for child welfare agencies in other jurisdictions designing strategies to strengthen their services for immigrant communities.
authors.affiliation: Child Welfare Program, New York City Administration for Children's Services, New York City, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Zeinab
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Chahine
authors.forename: Justine
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: van Straaten
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000592:standards*; D002669:Child Welfare / Q000208:ethnology*; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D004641:Emigration and Immigration / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D005581:Foster Home Care; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D009519:New York City; D011635:Public Health Administration; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D012947:Social Work / Q000592:standards*