Robert Little and the Kinship Fostercare Program in NYC
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Publication Date:
January 01, 1993
Source:
Harvard Kennedy School
In the late 1980s, the way New York City cared for thousands of its abused and neglected children underwent an unplanned shift. The impetus for the change came from a crisis: an explosive growth in the number of children in need of foster care. Between 1986 and 1990, the number of children in the city’s foster care system nearly tripled, a tragic consequence of the crack epidemic plaguing the city. The sudden increase in demand for foster care overwhelmed the city’s traditional source of foster care placements. Under pressure to find homes quickly, officials turned to a recently launched, city-run program–known as kinship foster care–to help meet the need. Kinship foster care was originally intended to be a relatively modest program. But in the wake of the crisis, the program rapidly ballooned, transforming the city agency responsible for foster care from a purchased and overseer of services into the nation’s largest direct provider of foster care. This case chronicles this period of change and expansion for Kinship Foster Care and focuses on the leadership of then commissioner of the Child Welfare Administration Robert Little. It should be paired with HKS82 (Epilogue). HKS Case Number 1203.0.
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