Children's Services Graduates 340 New Child Protective Specialists and 39 Investigative Consultants

Photos of the Event

Deputy Commissioner of the Division of Child Protection, Jan Flory (right) meets the graduate representative speakers Tamoya Buckley, CPS of Brooklyn and J.R. Thompson, Investigative Consultant in the Queens at the CPS graduation on Friday.

Commissioner John Mattingly welcomes the graduates and gives them information on how to get in touch with him.

Juan Ortiz and James Pepper Sr., two of the 39 investigative consultants who graduated along with 340 CPS at the ceremony on October 3, at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater, John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Joycelyn Jean Philippe, Assistant Commissioner, Emergency Children's Services and Joyce Frederique, Child Protective Manager from Queens at the CPS graduation ceremony.

Dominic Carter addressed the CPS graduation ceremony, giving a stirring account of his struggles growing up in the Bronx with a mentally ill mother and his brief time in foster care as a child.

Sandra Graydon-Long, Child Protective Manager in the Staten Island borough office serenades the graduates with her rendition of Mariah Carey’s “Hero.”

A group of gradates from the same training class now assigned to the Brooklyn and Queens borough offices celebrate at the CPS ceremony. Back row from left are Anita Ottombrino, Kearn Williams, Rudolph Richardson from Brooklyn; Dwight Vincent (Queens) and Saran James (Brooklyn). In front, from left are Jasmine Thompson and Marie Henry from Brooklyn; Sherida Parker and Elizabeth Peebles from Queens.

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