Research & Education
March 2024: UFA member Nora McCarthy’s organization, NYC Family Policy Project, releases No Filter, a report that shows that New York state screens out far fewer hotline calls than most states, contributing to the state’s high investigation rate
January 2024: UFA member Richard Wexler’s organization NCCPR releases an Issue Paper on The Failure of Mandated Reporting
September 2023: UFA member Kathleen Creamer participates in a webinar on the history and harm of CAPTA as part of the Repeal CAPTA coalition
March 2023: UFA members April Lee (Community Legal Services) and Anjana Samant (ACLU) are featured on the At Liberty Podcast: How Mandatory Reporting is Destroying Families
October 2023: UFA member Richard Wexler presents It’s Not “Just Poverty” – It’s UNjust Poverty at the Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare
October 2022: NBC News article Mandatory reporting was supposed to stop severe child abuse. It punishes poor families instead quotes UFA’s April Lee and Kathleen Creamer and features research by Texas Public Policy Foundation
June 2022: UFA’s Will Estrada speaks with the New York Times about the history of the parental rights movement
Policy Advocacy
July 2024: UFA member Richard Wexler publishes commentary in the Tennessee Lookout: The Best Way to Reduce Child Abuse Fatalities is to Reduce Poverty
January 2024: UFA member Kathleen Creamer participates in the Repeal CAPTA Coalition’s Day of Action on Capitol Hill
January 2024: UFA members Josh Gupta-Kagan and Ruth Ann White are quoted in the ProPublica article: When Families Need Housing, Georgia Will Pay for Foster Care Rather Than Provide Assistance
October 2023: UFA member Andrew Brown is quoted in The Imprint: You Have the Right to Refuse CPS Entry: Texas Launches Miranda-style Warnings to Parents Under Investigation for Child Maltreatment
March 2023: Parental Rights Foundation partners with LetGrow to pass SB 1367 in Virginia, which amends the definition of abuse and neglect
February 2023: UFA Members Community Legal Services of Philadelphia, National Coalition for Child Protection Reform, NYC Family Policy Project, and Parental Rights Foundation submit written testimony to the New York Assembly Committee on Children and Families as it holds hearings on mandated reporting of child abuse and neglect.
March 2022: UFA member Richard Wexler provides testimony to the Maine Legislature on the OPEGA Report on Child Protective Services Investigations, the Judiciary Committee of the Colorado House of Representatives, and the California State Assembly Committee on Public Safety concerning mandatory child abuse reporting laws.
September 2021: Why Democrats and Republicans in the Lege Formed a Rare Alliance on Child Welfare by Roxanna Asgarian, Texas Monthly. UFA’s Andrew Brown is quoted on how a bipartisan coalition came together in Texas to pass reforms to the state’s child protection laws.