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Where we’re fighting hardest for children right now.

Children’s Rights constantly monitors child welfare systems across the United States, investigating those that appear to be putting children in danger and taking action to reform the ones that are causing serious harm.

Here’s where we’re focusing our efforts most intensely right now.

In Oklahoma:

The state’s 10,000+ kids in foster care suffer abuse and neglect in their foster homes at one of the highest rates in the nation. Many get dumped and left in overcrowded, understaffed, and profoundly unsafe shelters and group homes. Thousands of children have been bounced around to four, six, even dozens of foster homes during their time in state custody.

Children’s Rights has brought a class action against the state, seeking the full-scale reform of its child welfare system — but the state is fighting back hard. See the latest here.

In Rhode Island

We’ve just filed an appeal of a district court’s decision to throw out the class action we brought on behalf of approximately 3,000 abused and neglected kids in foster care, seeking widespread improvements throughout the Rhode Island child welfare system. The American Civil Liberties Union and more than 15 children’s legal aid organizations and child welfare experts from across the country have lined up in support. Read the latest here.

In Washington, DC:

After years of improvements under a court order secured by Children’s Rights, the results for kids in the custody of the DC child welfare system have worsened in several critical areas — including abuse and neglect investigations, adoptions, and services supporting the well-being of children and their families.

Children’s Rights is fighting a heated battle in court to hold the District’s leaders accountable. Learn more here.

In Connecticut:

We’re working hard to save a program that keeps troubled children with their families — and out of foster care. See the latest here.

In New York City:

We’re engaged in a groundbreaking study of the reasons why too many children get trapped in New York City foster care for very long periods of time. Learn more here.