News Archive

2022

  • CASES Signs Open Letter to Governor to Protect Key Reforms
  • CASES Announces Search for CEO
  • CASES Wins National Award
  • CASES’ Care Managers and Clients Find Success Together
  • CASES Launches Mobile Outreach Crisis Program
  • CASES Welcomes Dr. Sarah Desmarais to Board of Trustees
  • Jonathan McLean Joins CASES as New CEO

    • 2021

  • A Note from CEO Joel Copperman on the Capitol Riot
  • CASES Partners with NYCTutoring.com for Pro Bono Translation Services
  • ACES Youth Mentors on Why This Program Works
  • IMT Peer Specialist Derrick Brown Featured in City Report
  • WiFi, a Quiet Room, and a Meal: CASES’ Office Hosts Clients for Virtual Court
  • Going the Extra Mile: A Brief Profile of Helping a Client Stay in the Community
  • Staying Motivated: A JAG NY Participant Profile
  • OP-ED: "As New Yorkers Face a Mental Health Crisis, We Can’t Afford to Lose the Resources ThriveNYC Provides"
  • A Note from CEO Joel Copperman on the Chauvin Verdict and "Accountability"
  • NYC Council Testimony: "Access to Mental Health Care in Black and Brown Communities"
  • Through Credentialing, Precious Jones Helps Participants Forge New Paths
  • Honoring Herb Sturz and Michael Smith
  • Chief Strategic Initiatives Officer Ann-Marie Louison Honored in "Mental Health Power 50"
  • Faces of CASES: Help Us Spread the Word & Reach 250 Donors
  • CASES Peer Specialists Featured in Mayor's Office of Community Health Video
  • CASES Board Announces Joel Copperman To Step Down Next Year
  • CASES Hosts Youth Graduation and Employment Workshop at New Harlem Office
  • Statement by the Board of Trustees on the ongoing crisis at Rikers Island

    • 2020

  • CASES’ Giles Malieckal, Senior Director of Pretrial Services, on Bail Reform and a New Era for NYC’s Criminal Justice System
  • “An Extraordinary Situation”: CASES Facilitates Rapid, Safe Reentry From Rikers During COVID-19
  • COVID-19 Program Update and Contact Information
  • Referral Information for CASES Programs During COVID-19
  • Being There: At the Nathaniel Clinic Front Desk During the Pandemic
  • The Rikers 6-A Early Release Program— Results As of April 22, 2020
  • Dr. Elizabeth Ford Joins CASES as Chief Medical Officer
  • Podcast: CASES' Giles Malieckal Talks Collaboration, Challenges of Getting People off Rikers During COVID-19
  • Support CASES’ Staying Connected Fundraiser
  • Happy National Nurses Month! CASES’ Nurses Talk About Providing Services in the Pandemic
  • With Limited Resources, CASES Staff Find Ways to Keep Clients Engaged
  • CASES Launches Summer Job Program for Youth
  • Statement From the CASES Board of Trustees in Support of Black Lives Matter and Racial Equity
  • CASES Staff Get Back to Serving Clients in the Courthouse
  • Nathaniel Clinic Extends Service Hours, Expands Groups, & Launches New Therapies
  • Essential Work: CASES’ Facilities Team during COVID-19
  • Working Across Systems to Secure Jail Alternatives for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness
  • A Story of Reentry: Celebrating Success and the Hard Work of Healing
  • Shauna Weinstein joins CASES as Senior Director of Clinical & Community Alternatives
  • Report Highlights Success of COVID-19 Early Release Program
  • Introducing the CASES Associate Board
  • The Nathaniel Clinic Becomes a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic
  • CASES Expands Access to Jail and Prison Alternatives in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Manhattan
  • AT&T Awards $15,000 Emergency Grant to JAG NY
  • Guided by lived experience, newSTART Peer Specialist Wesley Cutler helps others find success

    • 2019

  • Empowering Justice-Involved Youth Through Education: An Interview with HSE Teachers Toni Foster and Nandhana Sajeev
  • CASES Welcomes Orlando Bosch, Director of Mobile Behavioral Health Services
  • Honoring Black Social Work Pioneers
  • IDNYC Opens Doors for the Homeless and Those Returning From Prison
  • Tonie Dreher Brings ‘Project Give Back’ to 125th Street
  • CASES Expands Supervised Release to Youth
  • A Day in the Life of a Court Liaison Specialist
  • Primary Care at CASES Is Expanding!
  • Introducing “Let’s Chop It Up”—A Discussion Series on Policing
  • Guiding Principles for Mobile, In-Home Family Therapy Services
  • SYEP Participants Conclude Summer Course With Final Presentations
  • Welcoming a New Class of Social Work Interns
  • “I learn About Myself Every Day”: A Talk With newSTART’s Quanta
  • Staff Profile: Delores Moody, Next STEPS
  • Staff Profile: Joseph Holliday, newSTART
  • Staff Profile: Tataria Burns, Supervised Release
  • Staff Profile: Ralph Viau and Eugenie Medley, Manhattan FACT

    • 2018

  • Program Spotlight: newSTART
  • Nathaniel Clinic Offers Extended Walk-in Hours
  • Have Questions about CEP?
  • Santander Donates Suits to Youth in CASES’ Employment Services
  • CASES Adds In-home Family Therapy to Long-Established Youth ATI, Expands Services in Queens
  • Next STEPS Youth Go Bowling with Community Police Officers
  • Introducing New Nathaniel Clinic Leadership: Billy Green and Marketa Friedland
  • CASES Named as Finalist for Spark Prize
  • What Attorneys Say about Nathaniel ACT
  • JAG NY Youth Visit Google for Career Counseling
  • The Nathaniel Clinic Welcomes Tysen White, Care Management Team Leader

    • 2017

  • CASES SPOTLIGHT: Five Questions with the Director of Education and Employment Services
  • PROGRAM PROFILE: CASES' Manhattan Supervised Release
  • Providing Effective Treatment to People Just Released from Prison: A Case Study from the Nathaniel Clinic
  • CASES Youth Visit Harvard, Speak on Panel
  • CASES Expands After-School Services in Bedford-Stuyvesant and the South Bronx
  • CASES SPOTLIGHT: Five Questions with Sian Caisey and Eric Kolb, Directors of Adolescent Portable Therapy
  • A Day in the Life of CASES’ Manhattan FACT Team
  • CASES Launches newSTART to Divert Short-Stayers from Rikers Island
  • newSTART Director Receives the 2017 Harp Commitment Award
  • CASES Selected to Partner in Youth Reentry Network

    • 2016

  • CASES Receives LEAP Grant from Annie E. Casey Foundation
  • Welcome to the New CASES Website
  • CASES Implements Pre-Trial Alternative to Bail and Detention
  • CASES Brings Intensive Mobile Treatment to Brooklyn
  • CASES Expands Adolescent Portable Therapy for ATI Youth with Focus on Queens
  • CASES Receives Field-Initiated Project Grant from U.S. Bureau of Justice Assistance

    • 2015

  • The Behavioral Health Diversion Forum: Celebrating Seven Years of Interagency Success
  • CASES to Launch Trustee-led College Mentoring this Summer
  • NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Announces New FACT Teams—CASES Staff Share Expertise on the FACT Approach
  • CASES Advocates Improved Access to Stable Housing in Open Letter to Cuomo and De Blasio
  • Rebecca Linn-Walton Joins CASES as Director of Planning, Research, and Development
  • CASES Hosts Resource Fair for Youth Program Participants
  • CASES Director of Youth Programs to Lead Young Women’s Initiative Working Group

    • 2014

  • Director of Youth Programs Speaks on Juvenile Justice in New York City
  • Former CASES’ Senior Staff Member Ana Bermúdez Named Department of Probation Commissioner
  • QJC Participants Renovate a Community Theater and Stage an Original Performance
  • CEO of CASES Appointed to New York State Commission of Youth, Public Safety and Justice
  • CASES Awarded 2014 Borough President Capital Award
  • Director of Youth Programs to Speak at Mississippi Freedom Summer
  • CASES Mourns the Death of Activist Eddie Ellis
  • CASES Now Offering Adolescent Portable Therapy

    • 2013

  • CASES Honors the Life of Chris Molnar, President/CEO of Safe Space
  • Director of Adult Behavioral Health Wins Harp Commitment Award
  • Long-Time CASES Employee Recognized at Hunter College Graduation
  • CASES CEO Reflects on His Work with Ed Koch
  • Hundreds Rally at City Hall in Support of Increased Funding for Alternative to Incarceration & Reentry Programs
  • Brooklyn Artist Voodo Fe Leads Art Workshop for CASES Participants
  • CASES Staff Honored at Howie the Harp Graduation
  • CASES Celebrates Joe McLaughlin and Announces New Director of Youth Programs

    • 2012

  • Brooklyn Treatment Court Recognizes Court Employment Project Staff
  • Louison Participates on Panel at NYC Department of Probation's Professional Development Day
  • Director of Adult Behavioral Health Programs Presents at National Training Conference
  • NYC Department of Probation Selects CASES to Operate City-wide Education Program
  • Nathaniel ACT Team Member Honored With National Reintegration Award
  • Career Exploration Wins Grant from the Taco Bell Foundation for Teens
  • CASES to Participate in Statewide Youth Workforce Development Program
  • Hundreds Rally At City Hall in Support of Increased Funding For Alternatives To Incarceration and Reentry Programs
  • CASES to Offer New Criminal Court Program for Women
  • "Power of Me, Power of We" Presentation a Huge Success
  • Delegation of Ethiopian Justice Officials Visits CASES
  • CASES Celebrates Young Adult Justice Scholars Graduation
  • CASES to Expand Mental Health Services with New Manhattan ACT Team
  • Panel Discussion on Working with Justice-Involved Clients with Mental Illness
  • Policy Research Associates Reviews CASES’ TCM Program
  • Mayor Bloomberg Announces New York City's Incarceration Rate Hits New Low

    • 2011

  • Director of Youth Programs Receives Lewis Hine Award for Service to Children and Youth
  • CASES is proud to be a supporter of HSC's "Who Cares? I Do." Campaign
  • CASES Hosts OPCA Fundamentals of Community Corrections Training
  • Director of Mental Health Programs Presents at National Training and Technical Assistance Conference
  • CASES Named Semifinalist for The 2011 New York Times Company Nonprofit Excellence Awards
  • CASES Testifies Before City Council Committee on Juvenile Justice
  • Learning to Work Program Presents at Workforce Conference in California
  • ATI/Reentry Programs Rally at City Hall
  • CASES CEO Receives Sara Tullar Fasoldt Leadership and Humanitarian Award
  • CASES Awarded Civic Justice Corps Grant
  • CASES Joins NYEC's Postsecondary Success Initiative
  • CASES and DOHMH Co-Host Roundtable Discussion on Forensic Assertive Community Treatment
  • Joel Copperman Appointed to Brooklyn for Brooklyn Advisory Board
  • CASES Featured as New York Nonprofit Press Agency of the Month

    • 2010

  • CASES Youth Attend Private Screening of "Precious" with Cast Members
  • U.S. Sentencing Commission Pushes for Expansion of Alternatives to Incarceration
  • Above the Streets Basketball League Encourages Youth to Make Positive Choices
  • YouthAction NYC Visit
  • CASES Testifies Before City Council Committee on Juvenile Justice
  • CASES Peer Specialist Selected to Participate in DOHMH Training
  • CASES vs. Phoenix House Youth Sports Challenge
  • Employment Initiatives Aim to Increase Hiring and Retention of Youth and the Mentally Ill
  • CASES Asks City to Continue to Support the ATI/Reentry Coalition
  • CASES Awarded State Contract to Expand Alternative to Detention Services in Manhattan
  • Task Force Finds Crisis in New York's Juvenile Justice System
  • "Rikers' Regulars"
  • Brazil's National Council on Criminal and Penitentiary Policy Visits CASES
  • Joel Copperman Named Board Chair of Human Services Council
  • TCM Releases Report on First Three Years of Program Operations
  • ATI/Reentry Coalition Congratulates Cuomo and Elected Legislators, Urges Restored Funding
  • Nathaniel ACT Team Leader Receives Emerging Social Work Leader Award
  • CASES Celebrates Annual Thanksgiving Dinner with Program Participants
  • CASES Releases 2010 Annual Report