Children’s Rights is a national nonprofit legal-advocacy organization headquartered in New York City that investigates systemic failures affecting children, brings strategic litigation and policy campaigns to reform child welfare and juvenile justice systems, and works to ensure safe, stable, and health-promoting environments for children in state care.
Child welfare and foster care reform; family preservation and community-based services; access to medical and mental health care for children in government systems; government accountability and oversight of child-serving agencies; reform of juvenile justice and placement practices.
Primarily foundation grants and individual philanthropy, supplemented by donations and program grants.
Partners with local legal services groups, state public-interest co-counsel, national child-advocacy organizations and civil-rights groups; staffed by litigators and child-welfare policy experts.
Non-profit advocacy and legal organization (501(c)(3))
