Research & Education
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.
February 2024: UFA member Kathleen Creamer is interviewed on Matt Anderson’s Proximity Process Podcast about the harms of ASFA.
November 2023: UFA members April Lee and Kathleen Creamer participate in an ASFA webinar presented by Family Integrity and Justice Works.
December 2022: NBC News and ProPublica publish an investigation on Termination of Parental Rights, which includes a quote from UFA member Martin Guggenheim.
July 2022: UFA member April Lee gives a speech at New Jersey’s Reunification Day celebration.
November 2021: UFA member Andrew Brown talks about the 21st Century Children and Families Act and explains how the foster system came to be this way, on the Parental Rights Foundation’s EPPiC Podcast: Making More Time for Parents.
May 2021: When the Clock is Cruel: Parents Face Pandemic Hurdles as They Race to Keep Their Kids in The Imprint highlights how the Suspend the Timeline Not Parental Rights During a Public Health Crisis Act, sponsored by Rep. Gwen Moore and proposed by UFA, would spare children and parents the trauma of unnecessary termination of parental rights during the pandemic.
Policy Advocacy
April 2024: UFA joins the amicus brief in support of an appeal to the Michigan Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of termination of parental rights when less-restrictive means are available, which was led in part by UFA members Chris Gottlieb and Josh Gupta-Kagan.
December 2022: UFA member Kathleen Creamer’s op-ed The Children of ASFA Are Now the Parents of ASFA is published in The Imprint.
February 2021: UFA members Kathleen Creamer and Chris Gottlieb publish If Adoption and Safe Families Act Can’t Be Repealed, Here’s How to At Least Make it Better.