Annual report regarding youth in contact with DYCD and ACS who are referred as, self-report as, or who the agencies later determine to be sexually-exploited children, disaggregated by age, gender, and whether the children had contact with DYCD, ACS, or both agencies.
These initiatives will eliminate childhood lead exposure by 2029. This represents the most aggressive and holistic approach to protecting kids from lead of any city or state in the nation.
ACS’s annual report on language access, per LL 30 of 2017 and Local Law 73. Contains information on the number of interpretation and translation requests, broken down by language.
In compliance with Local Law 11 passed by the New York City Council in 2018, ACS submits quarterly reports on preventive services utilization to the Council. This report is also required to be posted on the ACS website
Local law 115 of 2005 (and its extension of 2012) requires the New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) and the Child Fatality Review Advisory Team it chairs to produce an annual report on injury-related child fatalities in NYC.
As required by Local Law 174 of 2017, ACS developed an Equity Action Plan as part of our commitment to confront and address inequities identified in our Equity Assessment.
Through partnerships with community groups, schools, and various city agencies FDNY's fire safety education team coordinated/participated in events during CY 2019 that provided awareness of general residential safety, placing an emphasis on targeting youth.
Following World Children’s Day, Commissioner Penny Abeywardena of the Mayor’s Office for International Affairs ushered in the 5th year of the NYC Junior Ambassadors program.