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Narrowing the Front Door to NYC’s Child Welfare System: COVID-19 Lessons Learned and Charting a Path Forward
Narrowing the Front Door to NYC’s Child Welfare System: COVID-19 Lessons Learned and Charting a Path Forward
In New York City, the 2020 COVID-19 shutdown forced a temporary but radical reduction in the child welfare system—halving the number of reports, investigations, and family separations; reducing surveillance of families in their schools and in their homes; and restricting support of voluntary preventive services. Early indications seem to suggest that this shutdown did not
