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

The minimum cost of keeping one child in foster care in New York State is $29,000 per year. CFR’s services, however, cost just $6,000 per family, regardless of the number of children. As a result, we saved taxpayers more than $6.9 million in 2011 alone.

CFR is also the first organization of its kind in the country to provide an innovative, team-based model of services to low-income families facing separation. Every CFR client works with a team of professionals comprised of a lawyer, a social worker and a parent advocate — a trained professional who has experienced the child welfare system firsthand and has successfully reunited with her family.