Richard Wexler

Richard Wexler is a noted child welfare advocate and executive director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform,(NCCPR),"Richard Wexler,"
bio note, National Coalition for Child Protection Reform (NCCPR), Alexandria, Virginia, USABanks, Sandy
"Helping Children by Fixing the System,"
October 10, 2000, ''Los Angeles Times''"Richard Wexler,"
bio note, Journalism Center on Children & Families, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.NCCPR’s ‘Give ’em Hell’ Approach Aimed at Problems with Michigan Reform, Youth Today
/ref> an organization seeking major change in America's child protection systems, favoring family preservation, opposing excessive and inappropriate interventions, critical of inadequate or inappropriate foster care and adoptions. In Congressional testimony, Wexler has described the group as "a nonpartisan, nonprofit child advocacy organization."
Wexler, Richard,
Submission for the record of Richard Wexler
Executive Director, National Coalition for Child Protection Reform for the Hearing of the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives,'' July 12, 2011, Washington, D.c.Review Proposals to Improve Child Protective Services: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Human Resources
Serial 109-73, Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress , Second Session, May 23, 2006

Politics

Though often critical of liberal policies in the child-protection industry, Wexler, in Congressional testimony, identified himself as a "liberal," noting the irony of his positions, which frequently put him at odds with liberals supporting, or working in, an interventionist child protection system. To establish his liberal credentials before endorsing a plan from the Bush administration, he testified in 2006:
:''I am a lifelong liberal Democrat, noncountercultural‑McGovernick, lapsed‑card‑carrying member of the ACLU. My CCPRboard members include a former director of Housing and Homelessness for the Child Welfare League of America and a former legal director of the Children's Defense Fund.

Government testimony and evidence

Addressing child welfare issues since at least the early 1990s,Wexler, Richard
"Don't Be Overzealous In Child-Abuse Cases,"
April 28, 1991, ''New York Times''"Senate Report 104-117 - Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act Amendments of 1995,"
Committee Reports - 104th Congress (1995-1996), Washington, D.C., June 13, 1995 Wexler has testified repeatedly before Congress and state legislatures, advised the United States Senate Health Subcommittee on Children and Families, and submitted other testimony and evidence to Congress and state legislatures.

Media background and coverage

Wexler's interest in the child welfare system originated in his 19-year work as a reporter for newspapers, public radio and public television.

Wexler's writing about the child welfare system has appeared in '' The New York Times'', '' The Washington Post'',Wexler, Richard
''Sacred cows in D.C.'s child services budget''
(opinion essay) Dec. 24, 2010, ''Washington Post'' the '' Los Angeles Times'',Wexler, Richard
"L.A.'s beleaguered foster care kids,"
(opinion essay), Sept. 16, 2009, ''Los Angeles Times'' the '' Chicago Tribune,'' and other major newspapers.

He has been interviewed by the ''New York Times,''Kaufman, Leslie
"Child Welfare Tightens Law on Removal,"
May 15, 2008, ''New York Times'' The Washington Post, the ''Los Angeles Times,'' the ''Los Angeles Daily News,''Anderson, Troy
"'Panic' in foster-care system,"
Sept. 04, 2009, ''Los Angeles Daily News'' ''Time'', the Associated Press, '' USA Today,'' ''CBS 60 Minutes,'' National Public Radio, CNN, ABC's ''Good Morning America,'' NBC ''Today'', '' CBS This Morning'', '' ABC World News Tonight,'' the '' CBS Evening News,'' and other media.Child Welfare Tightens Law on Removal, New York Times
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Wexler is the author of the book ''Wounded Innocents: The Real Victims of the War Against Child Abuse'' ( Prometheus Books, 1990, ).

Education and academic career

His organization's websit

and others, report that Wexler is a former journalist who graduated from Richmond College of the City University of New York (CUNY), and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he was awarded the school's highest honor, a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship. It reports he is a former Assistant Professor of Communications of the Beaver Campus of Pennsylvania State University.

References

External links

National Coalition for Child Protection Reform

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Living people
American male journalists
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
College of Staten Island alumni