Making our metropolis safer and extra reasonably priced for working households has been our precedence since day one as a result of our administration understands that in New York, it takes a metropolis to boost a baby. This begins with making certain our youngest New Yorkers have a spot to reside the second they’re born. Final week, we launched our new pilot program, “Creating Real Impact at Birth” (CRIB), an initiative that goals to assist households by placing pregnant New Yorkers on a path to everlasting housing.
Having a baby must be the best day of a New Yorkers’ life; it was for me. On that day, you shouldn’t have to fret about the place you’re going to take your child as soon as you permit the hospital. You shouldn’t have to fret about whether or not your youngster will develop up on the verge of homelessness or in a house.
In 2024 alone, over 2,000 infants have been born in New York Metropolis shelters — that’s 2,000 too many. CRIB is an $8.5-million program that gives pregnant moms with housing vouchers to divert these households from shelter to everlasting housing and enhance their well being companies and outcomes. By making certain moms and infants don’t enter shelter after leaving the hospital, we’re breaking the cycle of poverty and housing instability earlier than it begins and making certain pregnant New Yorkers transfer into secure houses earlier than their youngster is born — that’s what CRIB is all about.
We’re additionally ensuring that households have the assist they want within the days and months after they’ve a baby by launching our “NYC Baby Boxes.” When households head dwelling from the hospital, they may depart with free, important provides – together with diapers, wipes, clothes, video games and toys – and assets on what to anticipate after giving beginning.
NYC Child Bins will attain roughly 7,000 households throughout our public hospital system; that’s 7,000 households that won’t have to decide on between affording provides and placing meals on the desk within the earliest days of their infants’ lives. We’re serving to ease the monetary stress of latest households and making New York Metropolis extra reasonably priced for them.
As all the time, our administration is all the time targeted on holding households secure. Public security will not be restricted to our streets and subways; it additionally extends to our houses, too. Violence towards ladies, home violence, and gender-based violence continues to trigger ache in our society. It impacts folks of all races, socioeconomic backgrounds, and schooling ranges, and it might probably occur anyplace in our metropolis and to anybody. The reality is, far too many ladies and households don’t really feel secure at dwelling. Each New Yorkers deserves to be secure on the road, of their houses, and of their relationships.
Throughout Home Violence Consciousness Month this October, we rise as one to say to our home violence survivors that they aren’t alone. To coincide with the attention month, we launched a brand new NYPD Home Violence Unit. That is the biggest unit of its variety within the nation that can permit the NYPD to boost the way it investigates home violence incidents and higher prepare officers, all whereas strengthening assist for survivors. It’s going to have roughly 450 police investigators unfold out throughout each patrol precinct in New York Metropolis, solely devoted to addressing home violence; meaning extra assets to assist victims and extra cops to convey abusers to justice. New Yorkers could be reassured realizing the complete power of the regulation is coming after those that perpetrate these crimes.
On daily basis, in all places we’re delivering for New Yorkers, and making New York a safer and extra reasonably priced metropolis that’s the finest place to boost a household. Between CRIB, NYC Child Bins, and our new NYPD Home Violence Unit, we’re doing simply that.
