Plan your work and work your plan. If you don’t know where you’re going, how will you get there.

At COR, we know that if we want to effect change, we must advocate for solutions instead of just complaining about problems. That’s the evolution of our Solution Stack. It’s built on a foundation of prevention programs, with a layer of data collection and independent oversight that drives legislation and litigation. Our plans, goals, and mission are aspirational. We need your financial support to achieve our mission.

Our Policy Priorities

• Rebuttable Presumption of Equal Parenting
• Time Taken, Time Back
• 3 Strikes Law
• Justice Delayed is Justice Denied

Family Legal Recourse  Center

It’s recourse, not resource. It’s our intent to help parents and families that have had their lives and families destroyed, to hold the people and systems who did them wrong financially accountable so they will quit doing it to others.

Accountability Plan & Vision

The Data & Complaint Collection System (DCCS) will be an effective data collection, case journaling, complaint aggregation, and AI/analytics tool to help reform advocates and legal partners hold bad systems and bad actors accountable to the people and families they serve.

Protect Child Well-being

The most significant risk to a child at the center of their parents’ custody battle is losing a relationship with one or both parents. While CPS focuses on physical and sexual abuse, these instances occur far less frequently than the emotional and psychological abuse a child endures when one parent attempts to weaponize CPS against the other by making false allegations.

CPS MUST recognize that most CPS hotline calls are made with the ill intent to harm a parent-child relationship. While assessing for child safety, CPS must simultaneously assess the history and character of both parents and their potential motivation to lie about the other. All reports that are closed as unsubstantiated should be clearly documented as to child safety concern and potential motivation to harm a parent-child relationship.

Protect Rights & Due Process

Family Advocates are urgently needed to protect the rights of those accused in CPS investigations. Unlike victim advocates, who often escalate conflict, Family Advocates would ensure parents and children are treated with fairness, dignity, and respect—regardless of race, gender, or income. CPS caseworkers hold broad authority with little accountability and are often undertrained, biased, or negligent. Like public defenders, Family Advocates would be a trusted presence, upholding due process, demanding transparency, and holding CPS personnel to higher professional standards.

Reward cooperation, not conflict.

For qualifying low income parents who reach co-parenting agreements that keep both parents involved and do not open a child support case, ESP would subsidize or pay for child activities that both parents agreed to. It’s that simple, incentivize parents to co-parent and reward them by helping pay for sports, music or dance lessons, or any other activities (not child care) for their children.