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NYCPS Cares: New initiative for student safety, wellness, and family empowerment
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Chancellor Aviles-Ramos introduces NYCPS Cares, a new signature initiative aligned with commitments to student safety and wellness, educator support, and family empowerment. The initiative addresses urgent needs in light of recent tragic events.
- NYCPS Cares includes student-led anti-bullying and anti-vaping campaigns.
- A new family connectors program empowers families to share city resources and services with their communities.
- The initiative is seen as crucial in ensuring students' physical and emotional safety.
- The Chancellor emphasizes the importance of safety for effective learning and promises further expansion of NYCPS Cares in the coming weeks.
Melissa Aviles-Ramos
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Currently, NYCPS Cares includes student led anti bullying and anti vaping campaigns and a new family connectors program, empowering our families to share city resources and services with their communities as reliable and trusted messengers.
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This initiative feels even more urgent in light of the tragic loss of one of our 16 year old students just last week, a victim of senseless gun violence.
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We have so much work to do to ensure our students are physically and emotionally safe, and we are counting on you as our partners in this work.
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We know that if students are not safe and well, they cannot learn, and we will have more to share in the coming weeks about how we are continuing to roll out and expand NYCPS Cares.
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In addition to these signature initiatives, the mayor's executive budget supports numerous other game changing investments, including hundreds of millions of dollars in baseline funding to ensure program continuity.