Program: Monitoring and Evaluation

This brief proposes that:   Services to children and their families need to take a holistic view of the child’s relationships with family, extended family, neighbors and government agencies Improved communication between child advocates, families and government agencies is necessary. The current sectors serving lower-income communities operate in a disconnected and complex manner, creating conditions […]

  Dear Friends, On April 12, 2018, more than 100 practitioners from the fields of child advocacy, social policy, and government attended the event, Working with Families of the Poor: Taking Forward the Legacy of Salvador Minuchin, hosted by Equity for Children at The New School. Joining me as guest speakers were Howard Steele, Professor of […]

On March 29, 2018, Equity for Children hosted a talk at The New School about intergenerational equity and environmental justice in partnership with the sustainability-focused student organization, Oikos NYC, and with support from the New School’s Environmental Studies Program. The objective was to engage with young people to discuss and share what youths are doing and […]

Our Executive Director, Alberto Minujin, presented a research paper at the conference “Putting Children First: Identifying Solutions and Taking Actions to tackle Poverty and Inequality in Africa” in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from October 23 to 25, 2017. This three-day international conference aimed to engage policy makers, practitioners and researchers in identifying solutions for fighting child poverty and […]

Dear Friend, Equity for Children continues its focus on improving the wellbeing of the most disadvantaged children, particularly those living in cities, as 2016 draws to a close. In New York, we co-sponsored an event on November 22, Growing Up NYC: Policy Framework, with the Center for New York City Affairs. The framework comprehensively addresses children’s development from […]

Dear Friend, I am excited to announce the launch of Equity for Children’s new, streamlined website, providing improved access to our articles, tools and programs! Visit  www.equityforchildren.org to read about our most recent work and explore our resources.  For new followers, don’t forget to check out what we do, our programs and    our publications. For Spanish and Portuguese speakers, I […]

Family child care is the most common child care arrangement for young children from low-income families, yet national studies have found the quality of home-based care to be wanting. In 2012, New York City launched one of the country’s largest experiments in raising the quality of subsidized family child care. More than three years since […]