Press Releases
Wisconsin Makes Key Improvements for Foster Youth Living with Relatives; Advocates Call for Additional Efforts
MADISON, WIS. – Wisconsin has taken important steps to improve the safety of foster youth living with relatives and to bolster support for the family members willing to step up and care for them, according to a new report released today by the national advocacy group Children’s Rights. But the state must improve its data […]
February 28, 2011Federal Court Rules Massachusetts Child Welfare Case Can Proceed on Behalf of All Children in Foster Care
SPRINGFIELD, MASS. – Less than two months after rejecting Massachusetts officials’ efforts to block abused and neglected children’s access to federal court, U.S. District Judge Michael A. Ponsor today ruled that the lawsuit Children’s Rights and co-counsel filed seeking to reform the state’s badly broken child welfare system may proceed as a class action on behalf […]
February 17, 2011New Report Reveals Shocking Number of Oklahoma Kids Abused in Foster Care, Forced to Change Homes Repeatedly
TULSA, OK — One out of eight children in a massive review of Oklahoma foster care cases has suffered confirmed abuse or neglect in the custody of the state Department of Human Services (DHS), according to a new report by independent child welfare experts released today by the national advocacy group Children’s Rights and local […]
January 4, 2011Massachusetts Child Welfare Reform Case to Proceed as Foster Youth Win Major Decision
SPRINGFIELD, MASS. – Rejecting state officials’ efforts to block abused and neglected children’s access to federal court, U.S.District Judge Michael A. Ponsor today denied a motion to dismiss the federal class action filed by the national advocacy group Children’s Rights and Boston law firm Nutter McClennen & FishLLP seeking broad reform on behalf of approximately 8,500 […]
December 16, 2010New NJ Leadership Maintains Improvements in Foster Care — Must Now Focus on Family Involvement in Cases
NEWARK, NJ — The new leadership team at New Jersey’s Department of Children and Families has maintained the agency’s progress improving protection and care for thousands of abused and neglected children statewide, says a new progress report on an ongoing effort spurred by Children’s Rights to reform the state’s once-troubled child welfare system — and […]
December 7, 2010Advocates Call for Immediate Improvements for Foster Youth as Michigan Reform Falters
DETROIT, MICH. – Two years into a comprehensive court-ordered effort secured by national advocacy group Children’s Rights to reform Michigan’s failing child welfare system, a new progress report shows thousands of children are still stranded in foster care waiting for safe, permanent families and more youth are aging out of foster care without homes or skills […]
November 12, 2010Unprecedented Reforms Transform Legal Representation for Atlanta Foster Youth; Federal Court Oversight Could End in 2011
ATLANTA, GA — The end of federal court oversight of the Fulton County Child Attorney Office is in view as a new progress report shows comprehensive reforms spurred by the national advocacy group Children’s Rights have ensured that children in Atlanta foster care receive significantly higher quality representation from the attorneys appointed to represent them […]
November 10, 2010End of Federal Court Oversight in View as Tennessee Dramatically Improves Care for Thousands of Abused and Neglected Kids
NASHVILLE – Nine years into a historic effort spurred by the national advocacy group Children’s Rights to reform the once-failing Tennessee child welfare system, a new progress report shows that the state’s abused and neglected children are dramatically safer and better cared for in state custody — and the end of federal court oversight of […]
October 5, 2010Mississippi Foster Children Continue to Be Harmed, Advocates Ask Court to Act
JACKSON, MISS. – Citing the well-documented and consistent failure of Mississippi’s Division of Family and Children’s Services (DFCS) to improve its deeply dysfunctional foster care system as required by the settlement of a federal class action lawsuit, the national advocacy group Children’s Rights today filed a motion for contempt calling for the federal court to […]
September 29, 2010Fifth Annual Children’s Rights Benefit Honors Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, Features Gov. Jon S. Corzine — Oct. 19 in NYC
NEW YORK CITY – To raise awareness and support for its ongoing battles to defend the lives and legal rights of abused and neglected children in foster care across the United States, Children’s Rights will hold its Fifth Annual Benefit — honoring philanthropist and hip-hop icon Darryl “DMC” McDaniels — on Tuesday, October 19, 2010, […]