An Interview With the Center for Family Representation's John Linder

Simply put, the Center for Family Representation’s (CFR) mission is to keep families together. It provides disadvantaged families in crisis with free legal assistance and social-work services to enable children to stay with their parents safely.

"Because of the detrimental effects of long-term stays in foster care, CFR works to keep kids out of care entirely or keep their time in care to a minimum." says John Linder, chief development and communications officer at CFR. "In addition to direct legal and social-work services, CFR trains organizations locally and nationally on our unique team-based model to representing families as well as advocating on behalf of families at the local and national levels."