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Reports & Policy Papers (use Search by Category for newsletters, testimony, etc.)
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Getting Serious About the GED: How New York Can Build a Bridge from High School Dropout to Postsecondary Success
Getting Serious About the GED examines New York State’s “educational funnel”—a large population of potential GED test-takers that narrows significantly at each stage, eventually funneling out all but the most dedicated—or luckiest—students. It recommends strategies for increasing both pass rates and successful transition to higher education and training, with the belief that the educational funnel can be widened significantly.
Released: January 2010 / Cost: Free Download
Risking Their Future: Understanding the Health Behaviors of Foster Care Youth
Risking Their Future looks at the reproductive health behaviors of adolescents and young adults in the foster care system. Youth in foster care face major challenges at the time they become sexually active. This report grew out of two previous publications from SCAA: the 2006 document Growing Up in New York: Charting the Next Generation of Workers, Citizens and Leaders, and the 2008 report, Teenage Births: Outcomes for Young Parents and Their Children.
Released: December 2009 / Cost: Free Download
The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study
A research briefing on the The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study - the first large-scale study to empirically demonstrate that various types of trauma and household dysfunction in childhood significantly increase the risk for physical and mental disease in adulthood. This study shows that early detection of childhood maltreatment offers an excellent opportunity for preventing physical illness in adulthood.
Released: Summer 2009 / Cost: Free Download
Back on Track: Re-Connecting New York's Disconnected Youth to Education and Employment
Back on Track provides an in-depth portrait of disconnected youth at the state level, and makes the case that the needs of disconnected youth - and those at risk of disconnection - should be a vital priority in New York State. Existing programs that work and opportunities for new initiatives are also outlined in the report.
Released: June 2009 / Cost: Free Download Back on Track Executive Summary
SCAA Legislative Agenda 2009-10
Balancing the budget through across-the-board cuts to state programs would devastate the services essential to all New Yorkers, especially those struggling in the weak economy. Instead, the state should employ all its fiscal levers: raise some taxes, eliminate some tax breaks, tap the Stabilization Fund, get the largest possible federal assistance and, yes, cut state spending significantly. Most importantly, New York’s leaders need to set priorities. SCAA's Legislative Agenda provides clear priorities for policy makers.
Released: February 2009 / Cost: Free Download
Teenage Births: Outcomes for Young Parents and their Children
This SCAA report brings together data to show how teen parents and their children fare across key areas of interest to policymakers, including across state systems. We encourage policymakers to take these life areas and systems into account when making decisions regarding programs and budget priorities.
Released: December 2008 / Cost: Free Download
Disconnected Youth: An Answer to Preventing Disengagement. Volume 2
A follow-up to SCAA's October 2007 Disconnected Youth white paper that focused on preventing disconnection among young people involved in the child welfare and children’s mental health systems. This second paper concentrates on two other systems—education and juvenile justice—and recommends ways that the state can prevent disconnection with changes in those systems.
Released: December 2008 / Cost: Free Download
Growing Up In New York 2008 Update
An update of SCAA’s 2006 report, Growing Up In New York: Charting the Next Generation of Workers, Citizens and Leaders, this 2008 update is a 12-page chartbook that provides recent data on the well-being of New York’s children. It tracks seven key issue areas – education, birth to five, health, mental health, economic security, child welfare, and youth – that policymakers, advocates and concerned citizens should focus on, and provides clear policy recommendations for the future. This year’s edition focuses on racial and ethnic disparities in child well-being. Released: July 2008Cost: Free DownloadA Crisis of Care: Addressing the Shortage of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists in New York State
Originating from a September 2007 roundtable on STEPS (Solutions to End Psychiatric Shortages) Campaign, this policy paper is a preliminary discussion piece that examines the reasons behind the crisis-level shortage of Child Adolescent Psychiatrists (CAPs), makes recommendations for how the state can increase the number of CAPs, and offers alternatives for care to families in need.
Released: March 2008 / Cost: Free Download
Disconnected Youth: An Answer to Preventing Disengagement Corrected Version
Young adults with no care, no connections, and no hope for the future are a population on the rise. A number of past reports and studies have focused on reconnecting youth. This white paper by the Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy focuses on preventing disconnection in the first place.
Released: October 2007 (Revised) / Cost: Free Download
Universal Prenatal/Postpartum Care and Home Visitation: The Plan for an Ideal System in New York State
This white paper by the Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy is the product of two years of intensive research and discussion with a broad group of stakeholders collaborating as the home visiting workgroup. The paper describes a system of services that supports new families by providing three components: universal prenatal care, postpartum screening, and comprehensive home visiting.
Released: October 2007 / Cost: Free Download
Working To Learn, Learning To Work: Unlocking the Potential of New York's Adult College Students
New York’s need-based financial aid system, the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP), is intended to make college affordable for all low-income residents. Yet this report found that TAP discriminates against low-income working adults, preventing them from pursuing higher education.
Released: August 2007 / Cost: Free Download
Growing Up in New York: 2007 Update
Update to SCAA's 2006 report Growing Up in New York: Charting the Next Generation of Workers, Citizens and Leaders that surveyed the well-being of New York's children across a broad spectrum of indicators, looking for the key information that policymakers need to understand the trends that matter to child well-being.
Released: July 2007 / Cost: Free Download
Action Plan for Dignity, Respect, Choice and Recovery for People Living in Adult Homes
This Action Plan, developed by SCAA and supported by the NYS Coalition for Adult Home Reform is a guide to help New York develop policies, legislation and funding that will guarantee dignity, repect, choice and recovery for everyone living in adult homes.
Released February 2007/ Cost: Free Download
Power Failures: Power of Attorney Authority and the Exploitation of Elderly New Yorkers
SCAA’s survey of New York State’s 62 District Attorneys found that cases of egregious abuse of power of attorney authority are being referred to prosecutors, but many other cases are not. Prosecutors believe that they do not have the tools they need to detect, prosecute and ultimately deter the misuse of power of attorney for financial exploitation.
Released December 2006/ Cost: Free Download
Lost in Translation
A report released jointly by SCAA and the Center for an Urban Future finds that while immigrants have been fueling the population growth of communities in nearly every corner of the state, the state-run English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program has not come close to keeping pace with the demand. Waiting lists are growing for ESOL programs all over the state.
Released: November 2006/ Cost: Free Download
The Best in the Nation:
A Plan for Early Care and Education
A new document created for Winning Beginning NY, which makes the case for investing in early care and education, and
specifies what the new Governor should do in the First 100 Days of his administration to make New York's early care and education the Best in the Nation.
Released: September 2006/ Cost: Free Download
Growing Up In New York:
Charting the Next Generation of
Workers, Citizens and Leaders
This 78-page report compiles into charts critical data needed to assess New York's progress in helping children, starting with pre-natal care and ending with post-secondary education. The report presents findings in seven areas - education, birth-to-five, health, mental health, economic security, child welfare and youth.
Released: August 2006/ Cost: Free Download
Children's
Health Series: Children's Nutrition
A four-page white paper, the second in a series on children's
health produced by SCAA through its Children's Policy Agenda,
exploring programs and policy interventions that support
the development of healthy children in New York State.
Released: April 2006/ Cost: Free Download
More Hard
Times For New York's Working Families
An SCAA and Center for an Urban Future policy brief and follow-up
to the 2004 study Between Hope and Hard Times. New data suggests
the number of working families in New York living in economic
distress continues to rise.
Released: March 2006/ Cost: Free Download
Children's
Health Series: Children's Oral Health
A four-page white paper, the first in a series on children's
health produced by SCAA through its Children's Policy Agenda,
to explore programs and policy interventions that support
the development of healthy children in New York State.
Released: November 2005/ Cost: Free Download
Preserving
Public Health Funding: Implications of the 2005-06 Executive
Budget Proposal
A two-page white paper prepared by Bridget Walsh, SCAA Senior
Policy Associate.
Released: March 2005/ Cost: Free Download
Between
Hope and Hard Times: New York's Working Families in Economic
Distress
Jointly published study by the Center for an Urban Future
and the Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy which
shows that 1 in 4 working families in New York State are on
the economic margin.
Released: November 2004 / Cost: Free Download
Timothy's Book:
Real Stories about the Cost of Health Insurance Discrimination
Against Mental Illness & Chemical Dependency
Compiled for a vigil held in observance of Timothy O'Clair's
16th birthday on May 5, 2004, the stories contained in these
pages come from a message board on the Timothy's Law website
at www.timothyslaw.org
Released: May 2004 / Cost: Free Download
The
Cause of Dignified Living: The Psychiatrically Disabled in
Adult Homes
Released: February 2003 / Cost: Free Download
Giving
Children a Reason to Smile, Strategies to Improve Children's
Oral Health in New York State
Released: April 2002 / Cost: Free
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Meeting The
Needs Of Adult Home Residents With Mental Illness.
A Policy Paper by the New York State Coalition for Adult Home
Reform.
Released: April 2002 / Cost: Free Download
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Different Front Door: Essential Reforms in Child Protection
Services.
Released: Spring 2001 / Cost: Free
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Background Paper
on New York's Child Support System.
Released: May 2001 / Cost: Free Download
Background Paper
on New York's Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).
Released: May 2001 / Cost: Free Download
Bullying: Everyone's
Problem.
Released: April 2000 / Cost: Free
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Universal
Prekindergarten Takes Off in New York State, Preliminary Findings
from School Districts Implementing Universal PreKindergarten
in Year One of Eligibility, 1998-99.
Released: January 2000 / Cost: Free
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