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Center for Family Representation, Inc. (CFR)
2008 ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- 800 parents of more than 1,400 children were served using the CAT model. Nearly 500 of these families were new clients.
- Over 50% of the children of CFR's CAT families did not enter foster care.
- CFR's average length of stay for all children who entered foster care was less than four months. By comparison, the City of
New York reports that of children who return home, the median length of stay was 11.5 months. The median length
of foster care for all children in care in New York was 26 months.
- CFR provided 50 training and technical assistance sessions were provided to help family court and child welfare
practitioners, including judges, to employ new strategies to strengthen families. CFR was also invited to
present to a national audience at the Child Welfare League of America conference for the second year in a row.
- CFR created internal policy groups, which actively focus on issues including: legislative teen parents, family
court reform, housing advocacy, and incarcerated parents.
- CFR was awarded an Equal Justice Works Fellow,
whose practice will be dedicated to assisting mentally ill parents.
- CFR's Skadden Fellow, whose work focuses on education law,
represented 20 parents and consulted on another 30 cases during the first year of her fellowship.
- CFR's novel approach with parent advocates was featured in the
New York Times, and was the subject of an
NHK "NY Streets" documentary.
- CFR developed a partnership with Baby Buggy, an organization dedicated to helping parents by donating the equipment they
need to ensure the well-being of their children.
- CFR developed new practice toolkits on case theory and case preparation.
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2009 GOALS
- Serve 500 new families.
- Additionally, serve 65-75 families whom we meet in their community, when a problem is first identified.
- Begin to assist other regions to model best practices for parents through enhanced training and technical assistance work.
- Conduct 20-25 training sessions for parents and professionals, including trainings on representing young mothers.
- Publish two new toolkits, including one on how to assist parents during an ACS investigation.
- Publish an article on Cornerstone Advocacy in a major law journal.
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