New Administration for Children’s Services Commissioner (New York City) Gladys Carrión met with City Limits in late March to discuss her vision for the agency and the legacy she inherited. In a spacious Financial District office decorated with framed posters of Eleanor Roosevelt and pioneering Puerto Rican activist Antonia Pantoja– and flanked by Deputy Commissioner Felipe Franco and press representative Chris McKniff – Carrion took questions about her plans for the multi-billion-dollar agency.
……. Q: Metrics around student achievement have been available for a long time. Have they not previously been a priority for ACS?
A: It’s not a metric that we capture as an agency; it’s difficult to look at what we are doing to improve outcomes for children. We’ve done well reducing the number of children coming into [foster] care, and we’ve spent a lot of time around keeping children safe. Those are important pillars of child well being. But really asking, how are children doing? – it’s our responsibility to create the conditions that improve those outcomes. My goal, across all our clinical components, is to understand the impact of trauma in the lives of these children and their families. What are the right interventions; how do we mitigate their impact? Gaining a better understanding of brain development, all so we can create a trauma-informed systems.
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