Dating back to when her mother, a clerk and later an Executive Secretary at what is now the Administration for Children’s Services, would bring her to the office to help alphabetize paperwork and bring documents to other employees, Tania Cruz has thought of herself as an “ACS child.” Since then, the agency’s child-welfare services stuck with her.
“When it was time to go to school, I specifically chose social work because I knew that I wanted to work with children,” said Ms. Cruz, now a 40-year-old Brooklyn resident.
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