2023
On June 1 and 15, 2023, the New York State Unified Court System Office for Justice Initiatives hosted a two-part virtual series designed to provide information on protecting family integrity and unity. The program, "Families Know Best: Listen and Learn, Seen and Heard," provided a legal framework of what federal and state laws require, highlight the perspective of what families need to stay together in their own homes as a family unit, and identify ways to help shrink “the system” and mitigate the harms of government intervention into families, by eliminating unnecessary and harmful interventions.