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Series II. Child Welfare, 1988-2014 (bulk, 1988-2008). 5.5 Linear feet
Scope and ContentsThis series contains items dating from before, during, and after Scoppetta's tenure as first Commissioner of the Administration for Children's Services (ACS), a position he held between 1996 and 2001. Also present are materials from New Yorkers for Children, the non-profit partner of ACS Scoppetta founded, along with some from the Children's Aid Society, where he was board president between 1987 and 1993.
ArrangementSeries II is divided into three subseries, each arranged chronologically: |
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Subseries II.A. Child Welfare: General, 1988-2014
Scope and ContentsEarly in his career Scoppetta worked for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (the same agency that placed him in foster care at the age of five), but this subseries does not extend that far back. Instead it picks up a few years before his 1996 appointment as first commissioner of the newly-created Administration for Children's Services (ACS), carries through until his departure at on 31 December 2001, and continues until shortly before his death.
ArrangementThe material is arranged chronologically, with general items preceding the contents of specialized accordion files Scoppetta labeled "Child Welfare & ACS" (Box 5, Folders 7-12); "Reference Child Welfare" (Box 5, Folders 13-15); "Child Welfare / Important Reference" (Box 6, Folders 1-3); and "Child Fatality" (Box 6, Folders 4-8). The final folder in this subseries (Box 6, Folder 12) contains restricted material on the Elisa Izquierdo murder case (see the container list for details). |
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Offsite-Box: 3 | Folder : 1 | [Child Welfare: General] |
1989-1990 | |
| Offsite-Box: 3 | Folder : 2 | [Child Welfare: General] |
1991 | |
| Offsite-Box: 3 | Folder : 3 | [Child Welfare: General] |
1993-1994 | |
| Offsite-Box: 3 | Folder : 4-5 | [Child Welfare: General] (2 folders) |
1995 | |
| Offsite-Box: 3 | Folder : 6-8 | [Child Welfare: General] (3 folders)
Scope and Contents NoteFolder 6 includes letters from Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger, Chief Judge of the State of New York Judith Kaye, Queens County District Attorney Richard A. Brown, and Congress Member for New York's 14th District Carolyn B. Maloney, congratulating Scoppetta on his appointment as first commissioner of the Administration for Children's Services. |
1996 | |
| Offsite-Box: 3 | Folder : 9-11 | [Child Welfare: General] (3 folders) |
1997 | |
| Offsite-Box: 3 | Folder : 12-13 | [Child Welfare: General] (2 folders) |
1998 | |
| Offsite-Box: 3 | Folder : 14-15 | [Child Welfare: General] (2 folders) |
1999 | |
| Offsite-Box: 3 | Folder : 16-17 | [Child Welfare: General] (2 folders)
Scope and Contents NoteFolder 16 includes a program from the ribbon cutting ceremony (16 November 2000) for the ACS Children's Center at 492 First Avenue, Manhattan, and architectural specifications for the building, which was renamed the Nicholas Scoppetta Children's Center in 2013. |
2000 | |
| Offsite-Box: 4 | Folder : 1-3 | [Child Welfare: General] (3 folders)
Scope and Contents NoteFolder 3 holds contents from a binder, "Scan of Innovative Programs Supporting Children Without Guardianship, Presented to the Broad Foundation," 28 September 2001. |
2001 | |
| Offsite-Box: 4 | Folder : 4-7 | [Child Welfare: Wald Course] (4 folders)
Scope and Contents NoteCourse material for "Child Abuse and Neglect, Law 585," taught by Professor Michael Wald at Stanford Law School, Spring 2001. |
2001 | |
| Offsite-Box: 4 | Folder : 8 | [Child Welfare: General] |
2002-2003 | |
| Offsite-Box: 4 | Folder : 9 | [Child Welfare: General] |
2003-2004 | |
| Offsite-Box: 4 | Folder : 10 | [Child Welfare: General] |
2005 | |
| Offsite-Box: 4 | Folder : 11 | [Child Welfare: General] |
2006-2007 | |
| Offsite-Box: 4 | Folder : 12 | [Child Welfare: General] |
2007 | |
| Offsite-Box: 4 | Folder : 13 | [Child Welfare: General] |
2008-2010 | |
| Offsite-Box: 4 | Folder : 14 | [Child Welfare: New Yorkers for Children]
Separated Materials NoteMaterial relating to New Yorkers for Children, the nonprofit partner of ACS Scoppetta founded in 1996. |
2009-2014 | |
| Offsite-Box: 5 | Folder : 1-3 | [Child Welfare: General] (3 folders)
Scope and Contents NoteIncludes material on the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute Honoree-Benefit, May 2012 (Folder 2). |
2011-2013 | |
| Offsite-Box: 5 | Folder : 4-6 | [Child Welfare: General, undated] (3 folders) |
n.d. | |
| Offsite-Box: 5 | Folder : 7-12 | Child Welfare & ACS (6 folders)
Scope and Contents NoteFrom an accordion file Scoppetta labeled "Child Welfare & ACS." |
1996-2005 | |
| Offsite-Box: 5 | Folder : 13-15 | Child Welfare: Reference (3 folders)
Scope and Contents NoteFrom an accordion file Scoppetta labeled "Reference Child Welfare." |
1988-2001 | |
| Offsite-Box: 6 | Folder : 1-3 | Child Welfare: Important Reference (3 folders)
Scope and Contents NoteFrom an accordion file Scoppetta labeled "Child Welfare / Important Reference." |
2001-2007 | |
| Offsite-Box: 6 | Folder : 4-8 | Child Welfare: Child Fatality (5 folders)
Scope and Contents NoteWith a sheet (in Folder 4) itemizing the contents of Folders 4-8: I. ACS' Annual Reports (1989-1999) [NOTE: Only 1989-1995 present; Folders 6-8] |
1989-2000 | |
| Offsite-Box: 6 | Folder : 9-10 | [Child Welfare: Marisol case] (2 folders)
Scope and Contents NoteMaterial relating to the lawsuit known as Marisol v. Giuliani, named for the girl (born 1990) around whom it centered. Her physical and sexual abuse at the hands of her mother and mother's boyfriend led to the reformation of New York City's flawed Child Welfare System. |
circa 1995-2011 | |
| Offsite-Box: 6 | Folder : 11 | [Child Welfare: Elisa Izquierdo case]
Scope and Contents NoteA memorandum and two copies of Scoppetta's statement, as Commissioner of the Administration for Children's Services (ACS), on the death of Elisa Izquierdo (1989-1995). Elisa was beaten to death by her mother in one of the most horrific instances of child abuse of the day. The case spurred Rudy Giuliani to replace New York's ineffective Child Welfare System with the ACS and to appoint Scoppetta its first commissioner. |
1995-1997 | |
| Offsite-Box: 6 | Folder : 12 RESTRICTED | [Child Welfare: Elisa Izquierdo case] RESTRICTED until 2070
Access RestrictionsContains a confidential draft report of the New York City Child Fatality Review Panel (3 January 1996) and two copies of a memorandum regarding the same (9 February 1996), which, because they name caseworkers and Elisa Izquierdo's siblings, are RESTRICTED until 2070. |
1996 | |
Subseries II.B. Child Welfare: Printed Material, 1982-2012
Scope and ContentsPrinted matter on the subject of child welfare, mostly reports generated by the Association for Children's Services.
ArrangementThe material is filed chronologically by date of publication. |
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
| Offsite-Box: 6 | Folder : 13 | New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, In the Matter of the Adoption of Male Infant Landaverde . . . |
1982 | |
| Offsite-Box: 6 | Folder : 14 | Protecting the Children of New York: A Plan of Action for the Administration for Children's
Services |
1996 December 19 | |
| Offsite-Box: 6 | Folder : 15 | New York City Administration for Children's Services, Outcome & Performance Indicators, Status Report I |
1998 June | |
| Offsite-Box: 6 | Folder : 16-17 | Protecting the Children of New York: A Plan of Action for the Administration for Children's
Services, second printing (2 copies) |
1998 October | |
| Offsite-Box: 7 | Folder : 1 | The City of New York Administration for Children's Services, Accountability Review Panel Report 1996 and 1997 |
1998 December | |
| Offsite-Box: 7 | Folder : 1 | The City of New York Administration for Children's Services, Accountability Review Panel Report 1998 |
1998 | |
| Offsite-Box: 7 | Folder : 1 | The City of New York Administration for Children's Services, Accountability Review Panel Report 1999 |
1999 | |
| Offsite-Box: 7 | Folder : 2 | NYC Administration for Children's Services, Division of Child Protection, Child Protective
Services, Quality Improvement Management Plan and Outcomes |
1996-1999 | |
| Offsite-Box: 7 | Folder : 2 | The Administration for Children's Services, Division of Child Protection Child Protective Services Casework Practice Guide, first edition |
1999 June 7 | |
| Offsite-Box: 7 | Folder : 2 | NYC Administration for Children's Services, Reform Plan Indicators Status Report 2 |
2000 March | |
| Offsite-Box: 7 | Folder : 3 | NYC Administration for Children's Services, Realizing Reform: The Future of Children's Services in NYC [summary of conference proceedings] |
2001 March 26-27 | |
| Offsite-Box: 7 | Folder : 3 | NYC Administration for Children's Services, Five Years of Reform in Children's Services, 1996-2001 Reform Update |
2001 March | |
| Offsite-Box: 7 | Folder : 3 | NYC Administration for Children's Services, A Renewed Plan of Action for the Administration for Children's Services |
2001 July | |
| Offsite-Box: 7 | Folder : 4 | NYC Administration for Children's Services, Transition Briefing Document
Scope and Contents NoteHas Scoppetta's annotations and loose, inserted notes. |
2001 October 15 | |
| Offsite-Box: 7 | Folder : 4 | NYC Administration for Children's Services, New York City's Child Welfare System: Status of Reform, New Yorkers for Children Annual Board Meeting |
2003 January 8 | |
| Offsite-Box: 7 | Folder : 4 | The Administration for Children's Services Strategic Plan Update |
2012 September | |
| Offsite-Box: 7 | Folder : 4 | Administration for Children's Services (2 copies) |
n.d. | |
Subseries II.C. Child Welfare: Audiovisual, 1996-2002
Scope and ContentsA large number of audiocassettes, VHS tapes, and two CDs/DVDs on the theme of child
welfare. Most of the audiocassettes appear to be recordings of site visits Scoppetta
made as Commissioner of the Administration for Children's Services. The VHS tapes
are both professionally produced and recordings made by Scoppetta and/or ACS staff
of television appearances, conference proceedings, etc. NOTE: The New-York Historical Society lacks audiovisual playback equipment.
ArrangementThis material is arranged first by format—audiocassette, CD/DVD, or VHS—and then chronologically, except for the first five VHS tapes (episodes of the "Great Depression" documentary), which, for reasons of space, are housed in Box 9. All other VHS tapes are in box 10. |
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| Container 1 | Title | Date | ||
| Offsite-Box: 9 [in small archival box] | [Audiocassette] Brooklyn 6/4/96 #1 |
1996 April 6 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 9 [in small archival box] | [Audiocassette] Manhattan 6/6/96 #1 |
1996 June 6 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 9 [in small archival box] | [Audiocassette] Manhattan THM 6/6/96 #2 |
1996 June 6 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 9 [in small archival box] | [Audiocassette] Site visit 6/6/96 #1 |
1996 June 6 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 9 [in small archival box] | [Audiocassette] Site visit 6/6/96 #4 |
1996 June 6 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 9 [in small archival box] | [Audiocassette] Site visit 6/7/96 P.M. #5 |
1996 June 7 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 9 [in small archival box] | [Audiocassette] Site visit 6/7/96 #6 |
1996 June 7 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 9 [in small archival box] | [Audiocassette] EAC 6/10/96 |
1996 June 10 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 9 [in small archival box] | [Audiocassette] Bronx THM 6/11/96 #1 |
1996 June 11 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 9 [in small archival box] | [Audiocassette] Queens 6/13/96 #1 THM |
1996 June 13 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 9 [in small archival box] | [Audiocassette] Bed-Stuy 6/18/96 #1 |
1996 June 18 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 9 [in small archival box] | [Audiocassette] Bed-Stuy 6/18/96 #2 |
1996 June 18 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 9 [in small archival box] | [Audiocassette] All Things Considered, 5/8/97, "Foster Care in the Hood," 1997 National
Public Radio |
1997 May 8 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 9 [in small archival box] | [Audiocassette] Joan Hollinger #1 6/26/98 |
1998 June 26 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 9 [in small archival box] | [Audiocassette] Joan Hollinger #3 6/26/98 |
1998 June 26 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 9 [in small archival box] | [Audiocassette] Non-profit boards & neighborhood-based services [labeled copy 2] |
1999 December 20 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 9 [in small archival box] | [Audiocassette] Non-Profit Board & Neighborhood-Based Service 12/20/00 [labeled "copy
1"] |
2000 December 20 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 9 [in small archival box] | [CD/DVD] ACS Speeches and miscellaneous |
2002 September | ||
| Offsite-Box: 9 [in small archival box] | [CD/DVD] Who's Watching the Children? [bootleg] |
n.d. | ||
| Offsite-Box: 9 | [VHS] The Great Depression [episode 1]: A Job at Ford's |
1993 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 9 | [VHS] The Great Depression [episode 2]: The Road to Rock Bottom |
1993 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 9 | [VHS] The Great Depression [episode 3]: New Deal/New York |
1993 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 9 | [VHS] The Great Depression [episode 5]: Mean Things Happening |
1993 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 9 | [VHS] The Great Depression [episode 6]: To Be Somebody |
1993 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 9 | [VHS] The Great Depression [episode 7]: Arsenal of Democracy |
1993 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] Child Savers, reel #305, PBS [FRONTLINE] |
1985 February 12 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] Who Killed Adam Mann, Reel #1008, PBS [FRONTLINE] |
1991 December 3 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] NIJ Research in Progress, Cathy Spatz Widom, Ph. D., The Cycle of Violence Revisited
Six Years Later |
1995 April | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] Good Day N.Y., Eric Brett Schn[eider?] w/ Jim Ryan |
1996 April 12 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] Searching for Family: Moments in the Lives of Children in Foster Care [documentary
by Kathryn Hunt] (KCTS Television, 1997) [2 copies] |
1997 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] NYC Council Committee on General Welfare (Crosswalks Television Network) |
1997 December 9 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] Take This Heart [for Press Preview Only] |
1998 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] "Like it Is" [profile of ACS] |
1998 February 8 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] Wednesday's Child |
1998 September 9 & 16 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] Council Committee on General Welfare (Crosswalks Television Network) |
1998 September 10 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] Silent Heroes: A Day in the Life of a Caseworker (ACS Video Unit) |
1999 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] TASA [Teen Services Act Program] Graduation |
1999 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] ASFA [Adoption and Safe Families Act], Judge Sara Schecter |
[1999] | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] ASFA [Adoption and Safe Families Act] Conference, Cooper Union, Carol Williams
and Judge Schecter |
1999 January 14 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] Committee on General Welfare & Women's Issues (Crosswalks Television Network)
[2 tapes] |
1999 January 21 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] Child Welfare Conference Shane Salter Speech |
1999 July 22 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] Committee on General Welfare / Women Issues (Crosswalks Television Network)
[2 tapes] |
1999 October 22 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] Charlie [Rose?] / CNS on NBC |
1999 November 1 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] Robyn Brown-Manning Family to Family Conference (ACS Video Unit) |
1999 November 15 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] CNS on "Closeup," WB11 News |
1999 December 11 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] Child Victims Model Courts Initiative |
2000 February | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] Team Decisionmaking [sic] Involving the Family and Community in Child Welfare Decisions (Annie E. Casey Foundation) |
2000 November | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] ACS Conference media Coverage |
2001 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] Interview with Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta (ACS Video Unit) |
2001 February 2 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] Family Separated, Channel 2 [CBS] |
2001 April 26 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] Children's Services Facility Walk-through inspection [2 tapes] |
2001 August 22 | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] Best Talk with A.C.S. Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta |
n.d. | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] Beyond the System: A future for teens in foster care (Youth Advocacy Center) |
n.d. | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] Caseworker and Attorney review a case and prepare for for [sic] a court appearance
(ACS Video Unit) |
n.d. | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] Caseworker Testimony in TPR Inquest (ACS Video Unit) |
n.d. | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] Child Welfare Panel [labeled "copy 1"] |
n.d. | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] DLS Intake (ACS Video Unit) |
n.d. | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] Expert Testimony in Fact Finding Hearing (ACS Video Unit) |
n.d. | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] IDCFS Pathways to Development |
n.d. | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] Interview with a DLS Attorney (ACS Video Unit) |
n.d. | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] Judge Schechter & Judge Larabee (ACS Video Unit) |
n.d. | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] Listen and Learn: a youth documentary |
n.d. | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] NYS Child Protection PSA (ACS Video Unit) |
n.d. | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] Rikers Island Visiting Program |
n.d. | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] Save Our Streets Show #312 |
n.d. | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] Voices of Youth: Supporting Adolescents in Foster Care (Annie E. Casey Foundation) |
n.d. | ||
| Offsite-Box: 10 | [VHS] Welcome to ACS: The Administration for Children's Services (ACS Video Unit) |
n.d. | ||
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