Let’s not make a bad situation worse.

 Don’t abandon New York’s troubled youth.
Privatizing youth facility programs could lead to abuse, corruption and higher costs.

Effective treatment for troubled youth requires a commitment to consistency and quality services — services best provided by the state workforce.  

The New York State Executive Budget lays out plans to privatize the operation of minimum-security youth facility programs — a practice that is failing miserably in other parts of the country where young adults in privatized facilities have been abused, neglected and raped.

The State Executive budget also proposes to close three group homes which provide a safe refuge for the state’s troubled youth in Brooklyn, Mount Vernon and Gloversville. These closures may still happen despite the legislature’s agreement to keep them open.

We need to stop these misguided proposals to privatize the care of our most vulnerable youth and close group homes that provide them a safe refuge.

Don’t abandon New York’s troubled youth. Stop the privatization of youth services and keep group homes open.

Call 1-877-255-9417, tell your state leaders to adopt the Assembly’s proposal to prohibit the privatization of youth facilities.

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Let’s not make a bad situation worse.
Don’t abandon New York’s troubled youths
Closing group homes will take away their safe refuge

The NYS Executive Budget proposal calls for eliminating three group homes, run by the state Office of Children and Family Services. 

We need to stop this misguided Executive Budget proposal.

These homes provide a safe refuge for the state’s troubled youths in Brooklyn, Mount Vernon and Gloversville.
The state Assembly has voted to keep all of these homes open, and the Senate has voted to keep the home in Gloversville open. 

We are more than half-way there.

Now, we just need to make sure when the state’s final budget is adopted, our legislators don’t abandon New York’s troubled youths. 

Call your legislators at 1-877-255-9417 and tell them New York’s troubled youths need a safe refuge from the streets and abuse. 

Keep funding for the state-operated OCFS group homes in the final state budget.

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This 2nd ad version was created by the PEF PR department and appeared as a black & white version in the March 17, 2006 editiosn of The Carnarsie Newspaper, and The News Journal. © Copyright 2006.