REPORTS AND PUBLICATIONS

• A Manual – Leading the Way: Faith Leaders Taking Ownership to Address the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Asian and Pacific Islander American Communities
  This manual is a product of FPWA’s collaboration with Dr. John J. Chin, Associate Professor at the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College, CUNY. It was designed as a tool to help strategically engage religious and community leaders serving Asian immigrant communities to conduct HIV prevention and education work. It covers a wide range of topics with a particular focus on the role of religion, specifically in Buddhist, Christian and Muslim communities. The manual also includes suggested exercises as well as lengthier informational sections that can be tailored to the audience and the timeframe.
  November 2009 | Leading the Way pdf (790626 bytes)

• Youth Workforce Toolkit: A Standard Employer Guide to Support Youth and Young Adults in the Workplace
  This Toolkit provides a consolidated source of standard information for employers about best practices to support young people in the workplace. The goal of the Toolkit is to help employers groom young people in core workplace competencies as well as effectively integrate them into various work settings. The Toolkit was conceived at FPWA’s New Directions for Disconnected Youth Forum that took place in 2008.
  August 2009 | Youth Workforce Toolkit pdf (1137095 bytes)

• The State of NY's Social Safety Net for Today's Hard Times Over a Decade Since Welfare Restructuring: A closer Look at the Changes, Opportunities, Limitations and Current Day Needs
  This report reveals a weakened social safety net that is not sufficiently capturing many of the people in need because of barriers to access to services for the unemployed and impoverished. Analysis of government data found a significant increase in denials of applications for public assistance despite a surge in the overall numbers of applicants and unemployed. The report is one of the first reports in New York State that examines the implementation and impact of welfare restructuring over the past decade and what it portends for the hundreds of thousands of unemployed New Yorkers.
  May 2009 | NY Safety Net 2009 pdf (9989107 bytes)

• HIV Prevention for Women and Girls in Communities of Color, Reframing HIV Prevention Strategies
  This report contains our findings on community-level factors that impede the effectiveness of HIV prevention programs for young women of color in low-income neighborhoods of New York
  This publication proposes that effective HIV prevention strategies require more than changing individual behavior and that social and economic factors must be taken into account.
  November 2008 | HIV Prevention for Women and Girls of Color pdf (14737912 bytes)

• Grandparents as Primary Caregivers: Ensuring Needed Supports and Services
  This report about grandparents, all women of color who survive on low incomes, illustrates how they experience barriers and limited access to support services.
  March 2005 | Grandparents as Primary Caregivers pdf (264080 bytes)

• True Stories of Struggle, Strength & Survival
  Elevating the voices of women living with HIV and AIDS who are planning for the future care and custody of their children.
  2005 | True Stories of Struggle, Strength & Survival pdf (930326 bytes)
  True Stories of Challenge, Courage & Commitment
  Grandparent-headed households united in their determination to provide loving homes to children they did not bear.
  2005 | True Stories of Challenge, Courage & Commitment pdf (1362462 bytes)
  True Stories of Investment, Innovation & Inspiration
  Celebrating creative partnerships in child welfare to strengthen families and keep children safe.
  2005 | True Stories of Investment, Innovation & Inspiration pdf (612069 bytes)

• Subsidized Kinship Guardianship: It’s Time
  Subsidized kinship guardianship has long been under discussion as a permanency planning option serving the best interests of children in kinship foster care when neither return to birth parents nor adoption is feasible or appropriate. As a leader in the child welfare field for nearly eight decades, FPWA is pleased to offer this paper that presents the history and nature of kinship-based foster care, summarizes recent experiences with subsidized kinship guardianship, and makes recommendations for legislation in support of this strategy in New York.
  April 2002 | Subsidized Kinship Guardianship pdf (173592 bytes)

Policy Briefs

• Bushwick Child Care Access Snapshot: Summary Report of Findings

  The Child Care Committee of the Economic Justice and Social Welfare Network, housed at the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, undertook a process to create a snapshot of the experiences of families in one city neighborhood in trying to get their children enrolled in City-funded child care programs.
  December 2009 | Bushwick Child Care Snapshot pdf (49723 bytes)

• Green Pathways Out of Poverty for New York and the Green Job Corp (GJC) Program
  FPWA initiated the Green Pathways Out of Poverty (G-POP) coalition and issued a Concept Paper and helped to develop the Green Job Corps model in New York. We seek to promote Green Pathways that create job training and basic education programs that prepare job seekers for employment in clean energy industries.

  A Plan to Create Green Pathways out of Poverty: May 2009 | Green Pathways Out of Poverty pdf (43141 bytes)
  New York City "Green Job Corps Initiative" Concept Paper: May 2009 | Green Job Corps pdf (152904 bytes)

• “New Directions for Disconnected Youth” Forum Brief
  This Forum Brief summarizes the discussions that took place at the “New Directions for Disconnected Youth” Forum and offers insight into statistical data, program ideas and policy recommendations on disconnected youth.
  December 2008 | New Directions for Disconnected Youth pdf (627132 bytes)

• Enrollment in New York City’s Publicly-Funded Child Care Centers: The Need for Collaboration
  This Policy Brief identifies a number of systemic factors which impede the ability of child care centers to enroll children, as well as specific policy recommendations for addressing these issues.
  October 2007 | Child Care Under Enrollment pdf (67940 bytes)

Policy Matters publication

• Ensure Access to the Safety Net by Simplifying New York’s Onerous Application Process and Adopting Promising Practices to Stabilize Families in Crisis, January 2011
  Policy Matters, January 2011 pdf (144168 bytes)

• Analysis of Projected General Preventative Slots
  The Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies (FPWA) is concerned about the potential loss in the number of General Preventive Programs in New York City.
  December 2009 | Policy Matters-projected loss of general preventive slots pdf (61735 bytes)