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 oriented around parental risks and empowered to separate children from their families, in the role of providing material resources can undermine efforts to provide assistance to families.
November 2024: UFA members Kathleen Creamer, Martin Guggenheim, and Jim Mason appear on the Parental Rights Foundations’ podcast, where they are interviewed by UFA member Michael Ramey, to discuss what to do When CPS is at the Door.
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.
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.
September 2023: UFA member Kathleen Creamer participates in a webinar on the history and harm of CAPTA.
March 2023: Parental Rights Foundation, led by UFA member Michael Ramey, partners with LetGrow to pass SB 1367 in Virginia, which amends the definition of abuse and neglect.
February 2023: UFA Members submit written testimony to the New York Assembly Committee on Children and Families as it holds hearings on mandated reporting.
March 2022: UFA member Richard Wexler provides testimony to the ME Legislature on the OPEGA Report on Child Protective Services Investigations, the Judiciary Committee of the CO House of Representatives, and the CA State Assembly Committee on Public Safety concerning mandatory reporting laws.