2019-06-20T09:35:59-07:00 2018-12-31 134036703 SCHALL & ASHENFARB CPAS 307 5th Ave 15th Floor NEW YORK NY 100166517 990 2018-01-01 133801864 Childrens Rights Inc CHIL 2126832210 88 Pine Street Suite 800 New York NY 10005 Sandy Santana Pres./Exec.Dir. 2019-06-20 true Michael Schall P02024184 2122682800 2018 2019-02-21 02:37:17Z Sandy Santana 88 Pine Street Suite 800 New York NY 10005 6305091 false 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. 17 17 43 32 0 35756 1903278 2668861 735090 3371238 24961 25259 11034 12293 2674363 6077651 0 0 3475162 3542258 80000 22693 1083811 1606194 2090075 5161356 5655026 -2486993 422625 2648319 3103654 760549 793230 1887770 2310424 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. false false 4057886 3371238 In 2018, Children's Rights continued to effect transformational change for America's most vulnerable children:When our government began separating immigrant children from their parents, Children's Rights took the lead in partnering with the ACLU, filing an amicus brief that helped end this ruthless policy. Our work continues to make sure this travesty never happens again.In Texas, life got better for children in foster care when a court ruled the state must correct unsafe conditions and services that are leaving children more damaged when they exit the system than when they entered it.We proudly opened a new office in Atlanta to more effectively support the over 180,000 children in the South's child welfare systems, including 137,000 children in foster care the highest rate in the nation.A judge in Missouri certified a class action lawsuit, allowing us to represent over 13,000 kids placed at risk of severe physical and psychological harm through the dangerous administration of psychotropic medications.In Pennsylvania, our groundbreaking report Unsafe and Uneducated investigates systemic dangers and inadequate education for youth in residential foster care.We filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of boys living in an Iowa juvenile justice facility that relies heavily on solitary confinement and physical restraints instead of giving these traumatized children the mental health care services they need.We advocated for laws and policies to protect the rights of LGBTQ youth, and co-authored a best practices guide for child welfare providers about the unique needs of this group that is dramatically overrepresented in the foster care system.Our landmark case in Tennessee has resulted in the wholesale overhaul of the state's child welfare system and is now seen as a model for the nation.We continue to hold Connecticut, South Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, Milwaukee, Rhode Island, and Arizona accountable for honoring their commitments to revamp their child welfare systems to make children's lives better.We made our voice heard on issues that impact kids from how the opioid crisis is driving up the number of children entering foster care, to ongoing threats to the rights of immigrant children Children's Rights is aggressively making the case for the children we serve. 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