While some families endure hardship due to unnecessary CPS involvement, eliminating mandatory reporting can harm children, writes Darcy Olsen in an Imprint op-ed. imprintnews.org/opinion/mandat…

"While some families endure undue hardship due to unnecessary CPS involvement, children suffer — and even die — when abuse is missed or ignored." Thanks to Kathryn Jean Lopez for featuring my recent The Imprint article in her National Review roundup: nationalreview.com/corner/twenty-…

"People think foster care is full of juvenile delinquents. Most people don't even know this is where children who have been harmed, sexually abused, who can't find relatives to live with—they end up in this system. They are innocent victims who are suffering. And we are short

Too many foster children in Arizona are warehoused in institutions instead of living with families. Some have even died—Jakob Blodgett and Christian Williams, we remember you. A new bill, just passed by the Legislature and signed into law by Governor Katie Hobbs, aims to stop

Thank you to Kathryn Jean Lopez for sharing our story. Thanks to everyone who answered our 911. The firefighters. The friends who dug through the ashes. You’ve supported our mission to ensure every child has a safe and loving home. And now, you’ve done the same for my family.❤️

Seven children are dead—killed by a broken system that should have protected them. A new New York Post investigation lays bare the deadly incompetence of New York City’s child welfare agency. How many more children have to die before there’s accountability? nypost.com/2025/05/04/us-…

The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled that this mother—who set up her daughter’s rape in exchange for drugs—still has parenting rights. We filed an amicus brief because a mother who sells her daughter is a predator. We're demanding justice for this child.

In 1988, President Ronald Reagan made history. He proclaimed May as #NationalFosterCareMonth. This month isn’t about celebration—it’s a call to awareness. During the month of May, we're called to remember the children—abused, abandoned, and alone—who are still waiting for

Thank you for nominating me and the Center for our advocacy! ♥️ We won’t stop fighting until every child has the safety and love they deserve.

Don’t miss my #FosterCareAwarenessWeek live webinar with Darcy Olsen founder of Center for the Rights of Abused Children at 2 Eastern this Wednesday. RSVP here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Join me live with Darcy Olsen from Center for the Rights of Abused Children talking about foster care and the role we all have in ending it for the children living it with permanent homes, resources, and legal support. Sign up here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

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"So far we've helped over a million children in seven years [at the Center for the Rights of Abused Children] and when we’re done with this work, I like to think that we will have pioneered the movement to make the lives of abused and abandoned children just as precious and

For #FosterCareAwarenessMonth, I spoke with National Review Institute's Kathryn Jean Lopez about the urgency of finding every child a forever home. youtu.be/vfF8fI8snxg?si…

📣Encouraging news from Colorado: Governor Polis Jared Polis has signed HB25-1271—a critical first step in protecting the federal benefits of children in foster care. We’re deeply grateful to Lindsay Gilchrist, Rep. Kyle Brown, DafnaMichaelsonJenet, Sen. Lindsey Daugherty, and Jennifer Mello

At least 42 Arizona children have died or nearly died of a fentanyl poisoning since 2020. “The vast majority of children who die of fentanyl poisoning and who die of any type of abuse in our country are known to social workers, so our system is failing.” — CEO Darcy Olsen

A stunning Scripps News investigation by Lori Jane Gliha reveals a shocking epidemic: over 460 reported cases of fentanyl poisoning in children across the U.S. since 2018. Tragically, more than 260 children have died. Our Founder and CEO Darcy Olsen calls this “the biggest crisis we’ve

"If any other government agency were responsible for outcomes like abuse, neglect, exploitation or even death, we’d demand reform or even abolishment." Steve Thomas on holding the failing foster care system accountable via Philanthropy Roundtable philanthropyroundtable.org/liberty-for-ev…

This is foster care today: kids treated like property, shuffled between placements, their voices unheard, their fates decided by government agencies and courts without adequate legal protections. Steve Thomas asks: "If we believe the government should not have unchecked power

The truth is this: child protection isn’t a tug-of-war between “too many” and “too few” removals. Both are happening at once. Agencies routinely overreach and under-protect. Those realities are not contradictions. They stem from the same broken system—one with almost no