Partnering to Reduce Substance Abuse and Child Maltreatment

In 2014, Montefiore Medical Center partnered the New York City Administration for Children’s Services to implement a Regional Partnership Grant aimed to improve child welfare outcomes among substance use–affected families in the Bronx. Metis Associates conducted the local evaluation of the five-year initiative. Recently released findings from the cross-site evaluation report provide an in-depth look at the […]

Research Shows Efficacy of the NYC Transfer School Model

NYC transfer high schools have a track record of successfully engaging and graduating students who are over-age for grade and under-credited. Although all may not meet the Every Student Succeeds Act requirement of a 67% graduation rate for public high schools, their track record of graduating students who have failed to make progress in traditional […]