Close to Home Public Hearings

The New York City Administration for Children's Services has released its draft plan for the Close to Home Initiative. Close to Home was included in Governor Cuomo's 2012-13 state budget. It allows NYC Family Court to place juvenile delinquents in facilities that are closer to their homes. This effort allows NYC to develop a local strategy to address juvenile delinquency through the use of evidence-based programming and local partnerships that work to support youth and their families. This will help to end years of expensive and ineffective placement that that led to high rates of recidivsm. The New York State Office of Children and Family Services must approve the City's plan.

Close to Home represents the culmination of years of grass roots advocacy and the best research on what works to address juvenile delinquency.  There are two upcoming public hearings were the public can summit oral or written comments on the draft plan:

Monday, May 7, 2012

5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Brooklyn Borough Hall

209 Joralemon Street

Brooklyn, NY 11201

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

The Health Building, 2nd Floor Auditorium

125 Worth Street

New York, NY 10013