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We, the undersigned, support In the Spirit of the Children. We can attest to the importance of the services they provide to some of New York City's most vulnerable youth and the positive impact they have on helping to prevent homelessness. We stand with them and the youth they serve.

Keith Hefner

Executive Director, Youth Communication

Comment: Several teen writers from Represent magazine have used ITSOC services for finding stability as they left foster care. ITSOC staff have the rare ability to be very blunt with teens about what they can (and cannot) expect as they age out, and to do so in a way that engages the teens in finding solutions to his or her challenges. In addition, we often talk with ITSOC staff to learn about new rules and regulations, and the "between the lines" information about what is happening in adolescent services that can only be gained through working closely with teens as they try to secure the services they need. Thus, ITSOC is a valuable service for teens in our program as a source of support, and for the adult staff as a source of information.

Carla Small Covington

Youth Development Coordinator

Catholic Guardian Society and Home Bureau

Comment: Catholic Guardian Society and Home Bureau have been involved with ITSOC for a few years and find their program to be invaluable to our youth. We have taken advantage of their expertise in knowing of services and solutions to the problems of youth who are aging out of care. CGSHB looks forward to the continuing to support ITSOC and the great services they provide to the adolescent community.

Linda Lausell Bryant

Executive Director, Inwood House

Comment: I believe that ITSOC represents a necessary safety net in the City for teens and young adults who have exited the foster care system and may find themselves in circumstances requiring housing, food and a helping hand and candid, yet nonjudgmental guidance. The cost of ITSOC's services are a fraction of what it costs when young adults are engaged in the homeless services system not to mention the toll this path takes on the young people's options for a stable, productive future. This City needs this valuable resource now more than ever in an economy that is straining even those with resources. ITSOC's services are not a handout but rather a hand, offered in partnership, with support and guidance. This hand has made all the difference for so many.

Prof. Jane M. Spinak,

Columbia Law School

Comment: The Adolescent Representation Project at Columbia Law School has represented several clients referred from In the Spirit of the Children. The support these clients receive from ITSOC is consistent and pervasive. The clients know that ITSOC is watching their backs, making sure they have the best possible options as they age out of care. ITSOC works with clients at some of the most demanding moments of their young lives, when the possibility of becoming homeless, losing public benefits and leaving the structure of the foster care system puts them at serious risk of failure. ITSOC is crucial support for many aging out youth, helping to keep them on track toward a productive adulthood.

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Privacy Policy Statement

As a non-profit organization, In The Spirit of the Children, Inc. (“ITSOC”) places a high priority on protecting your privacy. This privacy policy was created in order to demonstrate ITSOC’s firm commitment to the privacy of our website users. This policy explains what types of information is collected by the ITSOC website, www.spiritofthe-children.org, and how this information is used.

We collect the domain name and e-mail address of visitors to our Web page and the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail. We do not collect your e-mail address unless you choose to communicate with us via e-mail or you volunteer your e-mail address on a form on this site. We do not sell or rent any e-mail addresses.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by ITSOC. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, site traffic patterns, server usage statistics and referring Website addresses. This information is used to improve the performance and content of our web pages, to maintain the quality of the service, and to provide us with general statistics regarding the use of the ITSOC website and aggregate information on the profile of the users of our site.

We use cookies to automatically help provide better services. They remind us who you are and your preferences for our website based on what you've done and told us before. The cookie is placed in your computer and is read when you come back to our website. Cookies let us take you to the information and features you're particularly interested in. They also let us track your usage of www.spiritofthe-children.org, so we know which parts of our sites are most popular. You can reject cookies or cancel them by instructing your web browser accordingly.

The ITSOC website affords you several ways of making a donation. When you donate directly through www.spiritofthe-children.org we will need personal information, such as your name, address, telephone number, fax number, e-mail address, and payment information (e.g., credit card number, security code and billing address) so that we can process your donation. All donations made through our website are final. During the ordering process, such credit card information is transmitted to third-party credit card processors and card issuers that will use your information to process the donation. These companies do not share or use personally-identifiable information for secondary purposes.

You can donate to ITSOC at www.spiritofthe-children.org online with confidence. We use with Authorize.Net to offer safe and secure credit card and electronic check transactions for our customers.

The Authorize.Net Payment Gateway manages the complex routing of sensitive customer information through the credit card and electronic check processing networks and adheres to strict industry standards for payment processing, including:

- 128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology for secure Internet Protocol (IP) transactions.

- Industry leading encryption hardware and software methods and security protocols to protect customer information.

- Compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard.

For additional information regarding the privacy of your sensitive cardholder data, please read the Authorize.Net Privacy Policy.

ITSOC is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Privacy Policy Statement applies to the ITSOC website and governs data collection and usage. By using our website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

This site contains links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of sites not owned by ITSOC. We encourage our visitors to be aware of when they leave our site and to read the privacy statement of any site that collects personally identifiable data.

We may amend this privacy policy from time to time, so please review it periodically.

If you have any questions about us or our privacy policy, or do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future, please feel free to contact us. Our postal address is: c/o J. Irving and Co., 104 Fifth Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10011.

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