On the other, there shall be a lot of outreach to find minority families.
The first minority families moved here in 1984 with few problems, after two years of meetings between city officials, residents and community leaders.
"I don't think we would get this kind of attention if it were a poor minority family."
This was the first center that offered psychological services to minority families in the areas around Harlem.
Children whose parents aren't savvy about working the system, particularly those from poorer and minority families, are far less likely to get into these programs.
Many of those who have gone through the program were from low-income minority families.
Over 500 minority families applied for the 60 available slots this year.
As in many minority families where there's not a father present, we got a lot of support from the grandparents.
But minority families make up 80 percent of the waiting list, and the quota forces them to wait much longer than whites.
The presence of children in a minority family at times is what warrants the discrimination.