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City Studies

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Keep Your Family's Home

Public Access Design

Keep Your Family's Home

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Making Policy Public

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Bodega Down Bronx

Urban Investigations

Bodega Down Bronx

Show Up

Public Access Design

Show Up

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

Making Policy Public

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

Print What Do Incarcerated Parents Need to Know About ACS?

The Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) is the New York City agency responsible for protecting children. For a parent who has to deal with ACS, the process can be intimidating because ACS has the power to remove children in cases of abuse or neglect. Parents who are incarcerated are much more likely to face an ACS investigation than other parents, but there are resources available to help — as long as they know how to access them.

CUP teamed up with public defenders from The Bronx Defenders and Brooklyn Defender Services who are experts in advocating for parental rights in the ACS process, and designer Manuel Miranda to create What Do Incarcerated Parents Need to Know About ACS? This pamphlet shows how ACS’s complicated investigation process works, and helps incarcerated parents understand what they can do to make sure they get the best results for their family.

Get It Back!

Public Access Design

Get It Back!

TGNC-NYC

Public Access Design

TGNC-NYC

Participatory Budgeting

Technical Assistance

Participatory Budgeting

Figuring Out Health Insurance

Making Policy Public

Figuring Out Health Insurance

Museumopolis

Urban Investigations

Museumopolis

What Is Zoning?

Envisioning Development

What Is Zoning?

What is asylum?

Making Policy Public

What is asylum?

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Making Policy Public

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights