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# United Family Advocates

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## Pages

- [Home](https://unitedfamilyadvocates.org/) - Creating a more compassionate and just approach to child welfare Learn more
- [In the News](https://unitedfamilyadvocates.org/in-the-news/) - Bipartisan advocacy, research and education to keep families safe and together In the News
- [Action](https://unitedfamilyadvocates.org/action/) - Working toward a future where families are safe, secure, and together UFA Campaigns and UFA Member Impact
- [UFA Member Impact](https://unitedfamilyadvocates.org/ufa-member-actions-overview/) - Impact UFA members conduct research, engage vast audiences through media advocacy, and build coalitions that advance UFA’s policy priorities.
- [The Problem](https://unitedfamilyadvocates.org/the-problem/) - There is no question that child abuse and willful neglect are serious and harmful—but these cases represent a small minority of those investigated or acted upon by the system. Most families caught in the net are not dangerous—they are struggling. The United States’ current policy approaches to protecting children routinely inflict harm on families who
- [About Us](https://unitedfamilyadvocates.org/about-us/) - About United Family Advocates UFA is a bipartisan group of child and family advocates who advance policy solutions to create a more compassionate and just approach to child welfare.
- [Policy Priorities](https://unitedfamilyadvocates.org/policy-priorities-overview/) - Priorities Change federal laws and funding to prioritize child safety and protect family autonomy, promote family integrity, and preserve family ties
- [Donate](https://unitedfamilyadvocates.org/donate/) - Help keep families safe and together Donate today
- [In Memoriam](https://unitedfamilyadvocates.org/in-memoriam/) - United Family Advocates mourns the recent passing of two visionary leaders who shaped the child welfare field. Paul Vincent passed away on July 25. As the head of Alabama’s child welfare division, Paul embraced reform and helped transform Alabama into a national model for family-centered practice during his tenure. He later founded the Child Welfare Policy and Practice

## Priorities

- [Preserve Family Ties](https://unitedfamilyadvocates.org/priority/preserve-family-ties/) - Since federal law changed in 1997 to incentivize termination of parental rights and adoption, two million children have had their legal relationship with their families terminated by courts across the United States, despite the benefits and desire of many families to maintain connections. For children who need to be separated from their families, far too
- [Promote Family Integrity](https://unitedfamilyadvocates.org/priority/promote-family-integrity/) - Current federal law is misaligned with constitutional protections on when child welfare authorities can take children from their parents, resulting in inappropriate removals of children. Providing families with skilled legal advocates is a proven preventive service, and a similar approach has been effectively established in federal policies in the criminal justice system.
- [Protect Family Autonomy](https://unitedfamilyadvocates.org/priority/protect-family-autonomy/) - Children should not be removed from their families and communities because they are poor. The confusion of poverty with neglect has led to a system that cannot care for children in actual need of protection, and traumatizes families whose needs could have been met without child welfare system intervention.

## Actions

- [Promoting Family Integrity](https://unitedfamilyadvocates.org/ufa-member-action/promoting-family-integrity/) - April 2026: UFA member Michael Ramey’s organization publishes the State of Parental Rights, which features an article by him on bipartisanship and one by UFA’s Josh Gupta-Kagan on Hidden Foster Care. January 2026: UFA members are instrumental in drafting and publishing an American Legislative Exchange Council model policy to protect due process for families facing
- [Protecting Family Autonomy](https://unitedfamilyadvocates.org/ufa-member-action/protecting-family-autonomy/) - ​ May 2026: UFA member Chris Gottlieb’s work challenging unlawful emergency removals of children from their homes is featured in this article in The New Yorker; read more on the NYU Law website. May 2026: A new study by UFA member Nora McCarthy and Dr. Kelley Fong finds that placing child welfare agencies, which are
- [Preserving Family Ties](https://unitedfamilyadvocates.org/ufa-member-action/preserving-family-ties/) - June 2026: UFA members Kathleen Creamer and April Lee are instrumental in two PA House Bills: one to create a path to reinstating parental rights and another to ensure that parental incarceration is not the sole basis on which a court’s decision for involuntary termination of parental rights is made. October 2024: UFA members Kathleen

## In the News

- [Preserving Family Ties](https://unitedfamilyadvocates.org/news/preserving-family-ties-news/) - 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. February 2024: UFA member Kathleen Creamer is interviewed on Matt Anderson’s Proximity Process Podcast about the harms of ASFA. December 2022: NBC News and ProPublica publish an investigation on Termination
- [Promoting Family Integrity](https://unitedfamilyadvocates.org/news/promoting-family-integrity-news/) - June 2025: UFA member Richard Wexler publishes an op-ed in the Albuquerque Journal: It’s Wrong to Assume Removing Children from Homes is Always in Their Best Interest. July 2024: The New York Times reports on a case that UFA member Chris Gottlieb’s Family Defense Clinic at NYU is co-counsel on, which received bipartisan support. March
- [Protecting Family Autonomy](https://unitedfamilyadvocates.org/news/protecting-family-autonomy-news/) - May 2026: UFA member Chris Gottlieb’s work challenging unlawful emergency removals of children from their homes is featured in this article in The New Yorker; read more on the NYU Law website. June 2025: UFA member Chris Gottlieb is quoted in ProPublica’s article New York Bans Anonymous Child Welfare Reports. February 2025: UFA member Nora

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