My quest for a foster child had begun five months earlier, in June 1987, with a phone call to St. Christopher-Ottilie, one of Long Island's largest and most respected child-care agencies.

The concert was a benefit for Graham-Windham (a private child-care agency), the Autism Society of America and the Immunohematology Research Foundation.

Most are assigned to one of the 57 voluntary child-care agencies with whom the city contracts for foster-care services.

June 15 - Founded in 1823, the Sheltering Arms Children's Service is one of the city's oldest child-care agencies.

But one expert in juvenile justice, Elizabeth T. Schack of the Citizens' Committee for Children of New York, a private child-care agency, contends that the youths' sentences are adequate punishment.

Nonprofit child-care agencies have suffered tremendously in the last five years.

Care for AIDS and Crack Babies Founded in 1922, the federation's original mission was to advise New York City's 22 Protestant child-care agencies.

In this case you show it to women, to people who work in domestic child-care agencies.

I have introduced a bill to allow authorized child-care agencies access to previous criminal records as part of their investigation of prospective foster parents.

The voluntary child-care agencies with which the city contracts for most of its foster care children will not take them.