Achieving Excellence in Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice and Early Care and Education

The 2011-2013 Strategic Plan The Plan is the agency’s blueprint for providing the highest level of service to New York City’s children, youth and families each and every day.

• Read the 2011-13 Strategic Plan (PDF)
• Read the Strategic Plan Update (PDF)

These plans highlight both the vision for better coordination of services for youth and more opportunities to leverage resources and systems to benefit young people and their families as well as benefit staff.

• Close to Home Phase I Plan - Close to Home Phase II Draft Plan
• Close to Home: An Overview of Non-secure Placement (PDF)
• Read The Detention Reform Action Plan (PDF)
• Read The Division of Youth and Family Justice Strategic Plan (PDF)

EarlyLearn NYC is the City’s new education model that will merge child care and early education into a single, seamless system and establish a foundation for success for the City’s neediest children.

EarlyLearn NYC (PDF)

Read more about EarlyLearn NYC (PDF)

Improved Outcomes for Children, a series of reforms for Foster Care and Preventive Services, was announced by the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) in March 2007. These reforms are intended to improve the results achieved by ACS and the private agencies under contract to ACS which provide Foster Care and Preventive Services. Visit the IOC section