Join the Healthy Kids campaign! Call your Congressional representatives at 202-224-3121 today and ask them to put children first and reauthorize CHIP as a stand-alone program. Sponsor Healthy Kids, a holistic advocacy plan that marshals the best legal and policy arguments as to why states should continue to provide preventative and other health services to low income children. Nearly 46 […]

Children’s Rights has proudly teamed up with Lambda Legal and the Center for the Study of Social Policy in conducting a groundbreaking study highlighting the deficiencies in law and policy across all 50 states in protecting transgender, gender expansive, and gender non-conforming youth in out-of-home care systems. The first-of-its-kind report showcases the dramatic overrepresentation of […]

A collection of blogs from CR’s 2016 Fostering the Future campaign. Foreword by Rita Soronen, President & CEO of Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption.

The nation’s opioid epidemic is landing an unprecedented number of children in foster care as their parents struggle with substance abuse. With the proper supports and services, many of these families could remain intact. In CR’s fall newsletter cover story, “Preserving Family Connections For Children in Foster Care,” we take an in-depth look at a growing movement to maintain family ties.

A review of Children’s Rights’ work in 2015, including significant developments in our foster care reform campaigns, financial information and a list of the individuals and organizations that generously supported Children’s Rights during the period.

For decades, thousands of young people in Texas foster care have suffered in a severely broken system where overwhelming caseloads, too few foster homes and poor oversight are the norm. In our cover story of Notes From the Field, you’ll hear from several youth who experienced the devastating effects of Texas’ beleaguered “permanent foster care” system.

CR Staff Attorney Julia Davis and Paralegal Michelle M. Zhang discuss the impact of solitary confinement on youth, and current efforts to end the practice, in the Cardozo Alumni magazine.

On any given day, thousands of children in U.S. foster care are given psychotropic medications to address mental health and behavioral issues. Studies show that children in state care are administered these drugs at far higher rates than the general child population.