2020-10-12T15:07:39-07:00 2019-12-31 134036703 SCHALL & ASHENFARB CPAS 307 5th Ave 15th Floor NEW YORK NY 100166517 990 2019-01-01 133801864 Childrens Rights Inc CHIL 2126832210 88 Pine Street Suite 800 New York NY 10005 Sandy Santana Pres./Exec.Dir. 2020-10-12 true Michael Schall P02024184 2122682800 2019 2021-01-29 14:40:06Z Sandy Santana 88 Pine Street Suite 800 New York NY 10005 4356954 false X www.childrensrights.org X 1994 NY Every day, children are harmed by America's broken child welfare, juvenile justice, education, and healthcare systems. Through relentless strategic advocacy and legal action, Children's Rights holds governments accountable for keeping kids safe and healthy. 15 15 45 35 0 2668861 2791693 3371238 1321562 25259 27154 12293 8680 6077651 4149089 0 0 3542258 3862156 22693 40000 948438 2090075 1849178 5655026 5751334 422625 -1602245 3103654 3273991 793230 2565821 2310424 708170 Every day, children are harmed by America's broken child welfare, juvenile justice, education, and healthcare systems. Through relentless strategic advocacy and legal action, Children's Rights holds governments accountable for keeping kids safe and healthy. Children's Rights has made a lasting impact, protecting hundreds of thousands of vulnerable children throughout the country and we are poised to help millions more. They are depending on usand you. false false 4281825 1321562 In 2019, Childrens Rights continued to effect transformational change for Americas most vulnerable children:Childrens Rights voice was prominent in advocating against practices that inflict harm on immigrant children, including the continued separation of children from their parents, their indefinite detention with or without family members, and the halting of necessary education, recreation and legal services. Our focus continues to be on the long-term harm that is done to children psychologically, emotionally and developmentally as a result of these policies. A case brought by Children's Rights in Missouri resulted in a groundbreaking settlement that will stop the dangerous practice of giving children powerful psychotropic drugs without proper oversight and monitoring. These medications are often used as chemical straightjackets to control behavior, in lieu of the mental health care these troubled and traumatized children so desperately need. The case sets a legal precedent that has the potential to address and end this practice in child welfare systems nationwide.In a huge victory for children in a case we brought on behalf of 1,900 children in foster care in Southern Florida, the state has agreed to address a lack of housing so extreme that children move from place to place 40, 50, 70 or more times and are effectively rendered homeless while in foster care. The settlement agreement requires the state to stop the dangerous practices of placing children in hotels, motels or offices, and overcrowded foster homes, and placing young children in group homes or emergency shelters. Children's Rights landmark Tennessee case officially closed in 2019. The reforms it engendered have transformed the state's foster care system into a model for the nation. Today, children in Tennessee are more likely to be reunified with their families, adopted more quickly, and not put in group homes. The case was the subject of a documentary that aired on public television stations across the U.S. Children's Rights was one of 12 nonprofits, selected from among hundreds, to be profiled. The film provides a road map other states can follow to build higher functioning, more accountable systems for vulnerable kids.Children's Rights launched a national interfaith coalition to speak out against a growing wave of government policies that allow taxpayer-funded foster care agencies to turn away qualified prospective foster parents because they do not meet an agency's religious criteria. The coalition opposes legislation and policy changes that would reduce the number of foster homes available to children by allowing foster care and adoption agencies to discriminate on the basis of religious freedom.A US court of appeals in Arizona ruled that a class action law suit brought by Children's Rights should be allowed to move forward. The suit alleges that the state is failing to provide children in the foster care system with timely access to medical, dental, mental health and developmental exams and treatments. 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