Every day, thousands of children and young adults are separated from their families and placed into foster systems where they are abused and neglected. The trauma they endure carries with them into adulthood, impacting their health, relationships, and sense of self. Is this how we treat kids? Add your name and pledge to Foster Truth for Kids. Let’s raise our voices loud and advocate for better treatment of our children.
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Join us in sending messages to uplift LGBTQ+ youth and families. Your words will be shared through Children’s Rights’ social channels, spreading the message that we celebrate every young person with love and affirmation.
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The child mental health crisis is mounting, and more children than ever are prescribed psychotropic drugs instead of receiving services to help them heal. Take our short quiz to discover more about the drugging of kids in America’s foster systems.
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Rikers incarcerates hundreds of young adults who are more often there because their mental health conditions have been criminalized. Join us in calling for Mayor Adams to close Rikers Island, help end the foster system-to-prison pipeline, and invest in the preventive services our communities need.
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In communities across the nation, police—not a trained mental health professionals—are the first to respond to a child’s mental health or social crisis. Call on your policymakers to stop prison pipelines and fund community services that will allow young people to develop and heal.
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As we grow the movement of people advocating for kids, we want to empower our community with knowledge. Now is your chance to ask the experts your questions about the U.S. child welfare system.
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We’re asking you to take our #HealthyKidsHealthyMinds Pledge to bring child mental illness out of the shadows and into the light. By adding your name, you will be a difference maker who is helping to build awareness for this national crisis.
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Pledge to help end the unjust, unnecessary, and devastating surveillance, investigation, and removal of Black children from their families. Add your name.
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Urge Congress to pass the John Lewis Every Child Deserves a Family Act (ECDFA). By banning discrimination in child welfare, the ECDFA would increase the number of foster and adoptive homes available to youth, giving them the best possible chance to find a safe, stable, and loving home.
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LGBTQ+ youth are overrepresented in child welfare systems, where they are more likely to suffer from harassment and abuse in the foster system, juvenile legal settings, and homeless shelters. Demand equality NOW and call on your senators to pass the Equality Act.
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President Biden promised to end family detention, but right now, his Administration is considering returning to the use of this cruel practice. We demand policies that recognize the humanity and dignity of immigrant children—and will ensure children are valued, not targeted or vilified.
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