The Children's Aid Society's Greenwich Village Center to be Re-named the Philip Coltoff Center

January 18, 2006

Contacts:
Ellen Lubell, The Children’s Aid Society – (w) 212-949-4938, (c) 917-854-6864
Emily Crossan, The Children’s Aid Society – (w) 917-286-1548, (c) 201-344-5742

Ceremony to Honor Children’s Aid’s Former CEO

When:
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Ceremony – 7:00 p.m.

Where:
The Children’s Aid Society
Greenwich Village Center/Philip Coltoff Center
219 Sullivan Street, between Bleecker and West 3rd Streets

What:
The Children’s Aid Society’s Greenwich Village Center will be re-named the Philip Coltoff Center in honor of Children’s Aid’s former CEO.

A portrait of Philip Coltoff will be unveiled and speakers, including the director of the center, chairman of CAS’ Board and chair of the center’s Advisory Board, will honor Coltoff’s tenure and leadership. Approximately 100 people are expected for the ceremony.

Who:
Philip Coltoff stepped down from his post as CEO in October 2005. He joined Children’s Aid in 1966 and was named Executive Director and CEO in 1981. He was reappointed CEO in 2002, when the Board named C. Warren Moses as Executive Director. Moses is currently the CEO of the organization. Coltoff has led the agency through one of its most active eras, a product of his dynamic vision of Children’s Aid as an agent of change in addition to a provider of services. He led Children’s Aid’s community school initiative, promoted its teen pregnancy prevention program, fostered its public health insurance facilitated enrollment program, and initiated major changes in CAS foster care services.

The Children’s Aid Society was founded in 1853. It is one of the nation’s largest and most innovative non-sectarian agencies, serving over 150,000 of New York’s neediest children and their families with a network of services that includes community schools, neighborhood centers, camps, adoption and foster care services, teen pregnancy prevention, education, health and recreation. For additional information please call 212-949-4938 or visit www.childrensaidsociety.org.