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 in the role of providing material resources can undermine efforts to provide assistance to families.

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

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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 potential separation.

November 2025: UFA member Brandon Logan publishes Reclaiming Foster Care: An America First Vision for Protecting Children and Strengthening Families.

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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 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.

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.

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