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Filter : Community and Family Justice

A collection of readings, research, and tools to help guide an understanding of structural racism.

Each day children and parents continue to be apart exacerbates existing harms.

Since March, children of over 11,200 parents have been subjected to a Department of Children and Family Services policy banning supervised visits.

We support the Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender in filing its notice of appeal in Buxton v. DCFS.

Statement from New President & CEO Audra Wilson

In this pandemic, parents should be able to hold their children close in these trying times.

In-person visits for parents of children in foster care have been suspended for weeks

More than ever, we need to advocate for systemic change.

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