The mission of Community Association of Progressive Dominicans (ACDP) is to promote and develop the physical, emotional, social and economic well-being of the residents of Upper Manhattan, the Bronx, and New York City by facilitating community empowerment through education, provision of human services, and the development of individual skills and community leadership.

The Columbia University TeenScreen Program is a voluntary adolescent mental health and suicide prevention screening initiative, which exists in 44 states, Guam, South Korea, and Panama. The President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health recognized the TeenScreen Program as a model program in its July 2003 final report. In addition, the national Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) listed the TeenScreen Program as a Promising Program on its list of Evidence-Based Practices in Suicide Prevention Programs. TeenScreen offers consultation, the screening instruments, and training, free of charge to qualifying communities.

To let every child eligible for adoption become available for adoption. The Adoptive Parents Committee of Long Island (APC) is a volunteer organization that is dedicated to providing adoption information, support and education. We are knowledgeable about all types of adoption, including domestic infant adoption, international adoption, and adoption through the foster care system. Monthly meetings with workshops on both pre- and post- adoption topics are free and open to the public.

The mission of this organization is to find and support foster and adoptive families, and to educate communities of the Capital Region of New York State about the need for foster and adoptive homes.

To provide or facilitate services for local families and individuals, including education, referral or other support, by bringing together professional staff, volunteers and broad community support.

Since 1954 Family Services of Westchester has been working to strengthen and support families and individuals at every stage of the life cycle with a wide range of mental health and social services at sites around the county. Youth programs include Big Brothers Big Sisters, Camp Viva for families living with HIV/AIDS, Early Head Start/Head Start, Family Mental Health, Supported Youth Residences, Therapeutic Foster Care, and Westchester County Youth Council.

The mission of the Children's Defense Fund is to Leave No Child Behind® and to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities in New York.

The mission of the Children's Defense Fund is to Leave No Child Behind® and to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities in New York.

WCA believes that every child deserves to be healthy, safe and prepared for life's challenges. Since 1914, WCA has remained steadfast in its mission: to improve the lives of Westchester's children by shaping policies and programs to meet their needs, and to keep the well-being of Westchester's children at the top of the pubic agenda.

Citizens' Committee for Children of New York (CCC) provides leadership on behalf of New York City's Children and families. This requires careful planning, innovative thinking, and strategic action. CCC advocates for children by promoting new ideas and offering new solutions, monitors policies and programs that could be influential, educates the public and the media on children's issues and provi