Fordham Dumpson Symposium Focuses on Past Lessons and Collaboration to Improve Child Welfare in NYC

Dr. Shirley Gatenio Gabel (above), the Mary Ann Quaranta Endowed Chair at GSS, who served as the moderator, highlighted the strides that many of the panelists had made during their time working with or for the city. “There’s one statistic that keeps on coming to mind—in 1996, when ACS was founded, there were 50,000 children in care, and today, there’s 6,800” she said.