Q&A
Agreement between ACS and Ali Forney Center for LGBTQ+ youth protection
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Commissioner Dannhauser explains the key points of the agreement between ACS and the Ali Forney Center, aimed at preventing abuse and implementing new policies for LGBTQ+ youth in foster care.
- The agreement focuses on improving the work of child protective teams to be more affirming
- ACS is implementing successful practices from other parts of their system in child protection
- They are adding LGBTQ+ champions and point people in each borough office
- ACS is working on updating policies with input from Ali Forney Center and RHY providers
- Joint trainings are being developed
- The agreement addresses issues such as unintentional 'deadnaming' of transgender youth during the reporting and investigation process
Althea V. Stevens
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In response to monitoring complaints over the treatment for LGBTQ plus in foster care system, the Ollie Forde Center and ACS announced an agreement to prevent abuse and implement new policies aimed at providing safe and affirming home environment for LGBTQ plus unpaid Can you share some of the top line points of this agreement?
Jess Dannhauser
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Sure.
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And we're really grateful to Ali Forney as I mentioned in my testimony for for bringing this to us and to for partnering with us to continue improve our practice.
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One of the the main areas of focus for Alephonia and what they were seeing in the RHI providers was the work of our child protective teams and making sure that they were being as affirming as we are expecting everyone in our system to be.
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And so we have taken some of the successes from other parts of our system and begun to implement them in trauma protection.
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All trauma protection staff already have been provided the foundational training and do the training every 2 years.
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But specifically, we're adding champions point people in each of our borough offices.
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Are gonna convene them much like we do with the foster agencies and promote best practices through that.
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They both many advocates, and we're gonna engage Alephony and the RHI providers in making sure our updated policies are sufficiently strong.
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We're working on trainings together.
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We're also convening with all of the RHI providers in October to have a robust conversation between our child protective teams and all the RHI providers.
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We've
Althea V. Stevens
0:45:17
also one is that?
Jess Dannhauser
0:45:18
You said June?
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October.
Althea V. Stevens
0:45:20
October?
0:45:21
Is this October?
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Yeah.
0:45:23
Oh, maybe I'll come and tell me more.
Jess Dannhauser
0:45:26
Fantastic.
