Protecting Family Autonomy

June 2025: UFA member Chris Gottlieb is quoted in ProPublica’s article New York Bans Anonymous Child Welfare Reports.

February 2025: UFA member Nora McCarthy co-authors Child Welfare Reckons With the Harm of Investigations for The Imprint.

November 2024: UFA members Kathleen Creamer, Martin Guggenheim, and Jim Mason appear on the Parental Rights Foundation's podcast, where they are interviewed by UFA member Michael Ramey, to discuss what to do When CPS is at the Door.

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Promoting Family Integrity

June 2025: UFA member Richard Wexler publishes an op-ed in the Albuquerque JournalIt’s Wrong to Assume Removing Children from Homes is Always in Their Best Interest.

March 2025: UFA member Johana Scot is instrumental in proposing legislation in Texas that would require child welfare agencies to undertake “active efforts”—a higher legal standard—before removing children from their homes, and would raise the burden of proof for terminating parental rights.

February 2025: UFA member Chris Gottlieb is co-counsel on a landmark case ruling that New York City’s practice of requiring child welfare investigations of parents who are victims of domestic violence is illegal.

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Preserving Family Ties

December 2024: UFA member Shrounda Selivanoff is interviewed in a two-part episode of Matt Anderson’s Proximity Process Podcast on the harms of terminating parental rights

October 2024: UFA members Kathleen Creamer and Shrounda Selivanoff speak on a panel, Severing Family Bonds through Terminating Parental Rights, at The Kempe Center’s Call to Action to Change Child Welfare International Virtual Conference

November 2023: UFA members April Lee and Kathleen Creamer participate in an ASFA webinar presented by Family Integrity and Justice Works

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