Child Advocates champions children and families across Indiana by advocating for justice, access to opportunity, and fostering well-being for children and youth in the child welfare system, in school, and in communities in Marion County and across Indiana. We want to help build a better future for every child. 

How We Impact Children’s Lives:

• Our attorneys serve children and youth in the child welfare system across Indiana who have experienced abuse and/or neglect, helping them secure safe and permanent homes. And some of our attorneys are doing groundbreaking work in Indiana as the only in-house attorneys serving as ‘counsel for children.’ They represent older children and their rights in court. As child advocates, we empower them to have a voice in determining their future.   
• Our educational liaisons provide free educational services to children, from preschool through high school in Indiana, who are struggling in school due to life traumas and challenges. Our educational liaisons offer individualized assistance to help address each child’s social, emotional, and academic needs. And they collaborate with parents, schools, and service providers to help students succeed. 

For more than 40 years, we have been serving vulnerable children in Indiana and we have helped transform the lives of more than 100,000 children. But we cannot do it alone. We succeed because of the generous support of a caring community of individuals, businesses, foundations, and volunteers. We believe, as they do, that all children deserve to live a life filled with hope, possibilities, and opportunities.