Press Releases
Federal Court Grants Tennessee Governor and Department of Children’s Services (DCS) Exit From 16-Year Lawsuit
Reporting Will Continue for 18 Months —– Legal advocacy can make government accountable and transform the way children are treated by public systems. Tennessee is a prime example,” says Children’s Rights. (Nashville, TN)—In a momentous ruling for children in foster care served by Tennessee’s Department of Children’s Services (DCS), a federal court today ordered that […]
July 5, 2017Latest Connecticut DCF Report Card ‘Reflects a Disappointing Downward Trend,’ Says Plaintiffs’ Counsel
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Wende Gozan Brown at 646-216-3329, wbrown@childrensrights.org Today an independent court monitor released the latest report in the case of Juan F. v. Malloy, which shows that the Department of Children and Families has experienced a decline in performance in several key areas. The suit, led by national advocacy organization Children’s Rights and […]
June 12, 2017Landmark Federal Lawsuit Charges Missouri with Pervasive Failure to Monitor Prescription and Administration of Powerful Psychotrophic Medications to Foster Youth
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRESS CONTACTS: Holly Aubry; haubry@childrensrights.org; 646.943.0541 Lewis Cohen; lcohen@youthlaw.org; 510.835.8098, ext 3045 Jessica Lillie Ciccone: lillieciccone@slu.edu; 314.977.7248 JUNE 12, 2017 – JEFFERSON CITY, MO. – Watchdogs Children’s Rights, National Center for Youth Law (NCYL) and Saint Louis University School of Law Legal Clinics have today filed a landmark, civil rights complaint against Jennifer […]
June 8, 2017New Report Provides Disturbing Details of Failure to Ensure Safety in Michigan’s Child Welfare System
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, June 8, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. EDT Contact: Wende Gozan Brown at 347-526-5520 or wbrown@childrensrights.org (DETROIT) — The latest report regarding the status of Michigan’s child welfare system reveals troubling details about failures to ensure the safety of children in its care—and also belies a lack of measurable data, several years after […]
May 31, 2017Report: Shortages in Staffing and Foster Homes Strain Metro-Atlanta Child Welfare System
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 Contact: Wende Gozan Brown at 646-216-3329; wbrown@childrensrights.org (ATLANTA) – The latest report on the state of foster care reform in Fulton and DeKalb counties, filed today in the federal court in Atlanta, cites troubling statistics about the current state of the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services […]
May 2, 2017Children’s Rights and Foster Care Alumni Ask the Nation to #FosterMyEducation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, May 2, 2017 Contact: Anne Blessing Tenney, anne@praytellagency.com, 757-817-7031 Holly Aubry, haubry@childrensrights.org, 646-216-3309 Wende Gozan Brown, wbrown@childrensrights.org, 646-216-3329 Children’s Rights and Foster Care Alumni Ask the Nation to #FosterMyEducation —- Annual Storytelling Campaign Amplifies Accounts of Attaining Education in State Care (New York, NY) – May is a month marked by […]
April 24, 2017Report: Nearly All Fifty States are Failing Transgender, Gender-Expansive and Gender-Nonconforming (TGNC) Youth
New report is the first comprehensive analysis of the explicit law and policy protections for TGNC youth in child welfare, juvenile justice and homeless youth systems (New York, NY) – A new report published today, Safe Havens: Closing the Gap Between Recommended Practice and Reality for Transgender and Gender-Expansive Youth in Out-of-Home Care, offers the […]
April 4, 2017Tennessee’s Department of Children’s Services (DCS) Nears Exit from Federal Court Oversight
‘We are so proud of Tennessee, not only for doing right by the children in its care, but also for demonstrating that top-to-bottom, systemic reform is absolutely possible,’ says Children’s Rights (Nashville, TN)—Court appointed monitors in the lawsuit known as the Brian A case today report that Tennessee’s Department of Children’s Services (DCS)—once beset with […]
March 31, 2017Statement From Children’s Rights on the Decision to Close Rikers Island
(New York, NY) – Children’s Rights Executive Director, Sandy Santana, released the following statement today in response to Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Mark-Viverito’s announcement to close Rikers Island. “This is a promising day for thousands who are proponents of justice for all New Yorkers. For far too long, Rikers Island has […]
March 24, 2017DMCPS Must Put ‘Laser Focus’ on Recruiting Foster Homes and Strengthening Supports for Foster Parents and Kids in Care
(Milwaukee, WI) – Today state reviewers issued a report tracking the progress of the Division of Milwaukee Child Protective Services (DMCPS) in reforming Milwaukee’s child welfare system in 2016, an effort spurred by national advocacy organization Children’s Rights. In response to the report, Eric Thompson, of counsel to Children’s Rights, issued the following statement: “It […]