NYC Council Introduction 1052

intro.nyc/1052-2024 2024-2025 Legislative Session
LGBTQIA+ foster youth experience surveys.
Status: Laid Over in Committee Committee on Children and Youth
Sponsored by Crystal Hudson
Introduced: September 26, 2024

This bill would require expansion of the foster youth experience survey that the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) is required to distribute annually to foster youth, to include questions about the treatment of foster youth by foster placements and ACS employees related to their gender expression, gender identity, sex characteristics, and sexual orientation. The bill would also require ACS to allow foster youth to express any grievances about their interactions with ACS employees, and require ACS to provide the option to foster youth to provide anonymous responses to the survey.