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PAZ IN PERIL - AGAIN!

New York City's childcare and after-school programs - including our award-winning PAZ After-School Programs at PS 24 in Brooklyn and at PS 214 in the Bronx - are on the chopping block  - again! 
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New report finds two Morningside programs among most effective in nation at fostering social & emotional learning

A just-released comprehensive report on school-based social and emotional learning (SEL) programs has named Morningside Center’s 4Rs Program and our Resolving Conflict Creatively Program as two of the 23 most effective SEL programs in the country. The report, developed by CASEL (the Collaborative for Academic, Social & Emotional Learning),  was announced on Capitol Hill on September 20 by Reps. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) and Judy Bigger (R-IL), leading national advocates for SEL.  

More on the report. 
 

SAVE PAZ! from Morningside Center on Vimeo.

PAZ After-School funds restored! 

Thank you to all who mobilized

After a major mobilization by supporters of the city's childcare and after-school programs (including our PAZ Program at PS 24, see the video above), the New York City Council has restored full funding for these vital programs, including PAZ! We are overjoyed that 240 children and families will be able to return to their beloved PAZ Program next fall.

We are extremely grateful to all those who wrote, petitioned and rallied on behalf of PAZ and the hundreds of other after-school and childcare programs that were on the chopping block. We deeply appreciate the work of the coalition that coordinated the effort to reverse the cuts, the Campaign for Children. The struggle to maintain these funds for the longer term continues.

As we chanted at our PAZ rally last month, Si se puede!