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March 29, 2024

“Advocacy Means Creating a Safe Space”: Honoring CFR Family Advocates This Social Work Month

To commemorate #SocialWorkMonth, CFR interviewed two of our passionate family advocates, Yesenia Aristizabal and Serena Zhou.

March 23, 2024

Letter to the Editor: Making Hard Times Harder for Asylum-Seeking Families

The New York Daily News published CFR's letter responding to a March 17th article titled "Lives upended every 60 days."

February 26, 2024

Black parents in NY need to know their rights

CFR and other leading public defender organizations wrote a joint op-ed for Black History Month about the importance of Black parents knowing their rights.

February 18, 2024

“Black History is Every Day”: CFR Staff Members On Black History Month

Every day, CFR staff members work on behalf of predominantly poor Black and Brown families who are targeted and surveilled by systems of family policing and youth incarceration. To commemorate Black History Month, which honors the triumphs and struggles of Black people throughout U.S. history, we interviewed four CFR staff members: Alicia Williams, Chief Operating …

January 22, 2024

NYC parents facing child welfare investigations set to get rights notices

Jennifer Feinberg, CFR litigation supervisor, was quoted in a Gothamist article about ACS's expansion of a pilot program that informs parents under investigation about their legal rights via written letter.

January 3, 2024

Advocates push NY lawmakers to pass Kyra’s Law

Jennifer Feinberg, CFR litigation supervisor, was quoted in a Gothamist article about Kyra's Law. CFR believes that the law can have unintended negative consequences.

November 14, 2023

New Legal Advocacy Model Aims to Better Support Rochester-Area Parents in New York Family Court

Jennifer Feinberg, CFR litigation supervisor, was quoted in an Imprint article about the expansion of the family defense model that CFR pioneered.

November 6, 2023

Teens in NYC detention centers are sleeping on the ground due to overcrowding, staff say

Sandeep Kandhari, director of CFR's Youth Defense Practice, was quoted in a Gothamist article about how teens in juvenile jails are being forced to sleep on the ground in common areas, including hallways and classrooms, due to overcrowding.

September 26, 2023

Defending Justice Against Family Policing

CFR Executive Director Tehra Coles discusses her professional journey, the work that CFR does, the “wrongness and racism at the core of the family policing system,” the trauma of separation, and the hope and necessity of abolition on the Mining for Gold podcast.

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Common Terms We Use

Learn more about the common terms we use at CFR and why we choose to use certain language like the family policing system instead of the child welfare system in order to accurately reflect the reality that thousands of Black and Brown families experience every day.

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