Helping Parents With Children in Foster Care

The New York Social Services has created a new program, The Parent Advocate Initiative (PAI), to re-engage birth parents with their children and improve their own situation.
Helping Parents With Children in Foster Care
DOWN AND OUT, UP AND AT 'EM: Felicia Alleyne-Davis hit an all-time low when she lost her child to foster care because of her alcoholism. Her resilience and love for her child helped her to bounce back. She now works as a parent advocate with the agency that helped her, New Alternatives for Children, to help other parents with children in foster care. Tara MacIsaacs/The Epoch Times
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<a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/07/Children_IMG_7699_2_medium.jpg"><img src="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/07/Children_IMG_7699_2_medium-350x450.jpg" alt="DOWN AND OUT, UP AND AT 'EM: Felicia Alleyne-Davis hit an all-time low when she lost her child to foster care because of her alcoholism. Her resilience and love for her child helped her to bounce back. She now works as a parent advocate with the agency that helped her, New Alternatives for Children, to help other parents with children in foster care. (Tara MacIsaacs/The Epoch Times)" title="DOWN AND OUT, UP AND AT 'EM: Felicia Alleyne-Davis hit an all-time low when she lost her child to foster care because of her alcoholism. Her resilience and love for her child helped her to bounce back. She now works as a parent advocate with the agency that helped her, New Alternatives for Children, to help other parents with children in foster care. (Tara MacIsaacs/The Epoch Times)" width="320" class="size-medium wp-image-122452"/></a>
DOWN AND OUT, UP AND AT 'EM: Felicia Alleyne-Davis hit an all-time low when she lost her child to foster care because of her alcoholism. Her resilience and love for her child helped her to bounce back. She now works as a parent advocate with the agency that helped her, New Alternatives for Children, to help other parents with children in foster care. (Tara MacIsaacs/The Epoch Times)