The Monroe County’s Department of Human Services estimates that it’ll field more than 8,900 reports of child abuse and neglect in 2016. The number has been rising since at least 2008, when the county received 7,453 such reports, according to budget documents. Typically, around 90 percent of the reports involve neglect allegations, while fewer than […]
Social Services
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Anti-poverty effort will focus on data, flexibility
The Rochester Anti-Poverty Task Force announced last month by Governor Andrew Cuomo will hold its first meeting in the next few weeks. United Way CEO Peter Carpino gave an overview of the effort during this morning’s meeting of the Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council. The task force, he said, will bring together 20 state […]
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County officials say day care subsidies are a state issue
Local children’s advocates and faith groups have flooded County Executive Maggie Brooks’ office in recent months with letters requesting a $1 million increase in local funding for low-income child day care subsidies. But the push is apparently not sitting well with county officials. During a Legislature committee meeting last night, Kelly Reed, commissioner of the […]
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Day care subsidies: What Maggie Brooks didn’t say
When Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks presented her 2014 budget proposal recently, she said that the county would provide more funding than the state required for child day care subsidies. And as a result, she said, no families currently receiving child day care subsidies would lose their slots. But Brooks chose her words carefully. She didn’t […]
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News briefs 11.12.03
It
was a cold October day for the dedication of School No. 23’s new sculpture
garden.
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News briefs 10.8.02
Pulling out the stops EROI: That’s Italian for “heroes,” and Genessean for the Eastman Rochester Organ Initiative. The definitions harmonize. For one thing, the Initiative is about making Rochester an international center for the most heroic of instruments — assembling here “a collection of new and historic organs unparalleled in North America.” For another, […]
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Sleight of hand
It’s not so much a feeling of desperation; that implies a certain quickness — a racing, clinging quality. No, the mood in the St. Paul waiting area is slower, somehow. Men sleep. People wander in and out, checking the jobs-posting boards — nearly empty at 3:30 p.m. on this particular Friday — and to […]
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Reader Feedback 8.7.02
Investing in children, Cuts hurt children, Park pleasures, Caesar’s ghost…
