About

Children and Families Advocacy Programs is a non-profit organization that seeks to serve and meet the legal, educational, social and emotional needs of children, youth and families.

Established May 19, 2009, CFAP is a community of believers who seek out those who are seeking to unite, improve and change the lives of young people and families through the power of prayer with the goal of training and developing them to realize and live out their God-given purpose.

On a regular basis CFAP provides training opportunities in budget and finance, marriage, parenting, career building and training, singleness, and other areas that will change the lives of those we serve for the better.

We use all available measures to engage and inspire people to discover and to live out their purpose. CFAP seeks to teach biblical messages and to train and equip its participants to become missionaries in their community and the world.  As an organization CFAP will be  (1) be an advocate and a voice for the poor and the marginalized (2) encourage and promote personal and community economic development, (3) provide training, resources, opportunities and tools that will help children, youth and families maximize their potential.

CFAP offer and provide quality and affordable legal representation, counsel and litigation on a wide variety of legal issues involving and/or affecting the public interest (collectively referred to as "legal services") to poor, distressed and underprivileged individuals, disadvantaged minorities and nonprofit organizations.   We offer opportunities of receiving quality legal services to unserved clients whose limited financial resources exceed a level that would allow them to qualify for free legal services available through government-funded programs at the state or federal levels, but not substantial enough to allow them to obtain through private law firms the quality and affordable legal services they need and deserve in order to defend their interests and secure their rights at law.

We promote and help secure easier access to the fair, effective and cost-efficient resolution of legal disputes and to basic community resources by all citizens, regardless of their gender, race, color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, age, class, creed, national origin, ethnicity or economic means, through greater and equal access to various institutions and officials such as: the police; the courts;  and other public service agencies.

We prepare and conduct where possible non-partisan research, educational and informational activities to increase public awareness of important legal and social justice issues, including but not limited to those concerning juvenile delinquency; mass incarceration, implicit bias, public education, poverty; senior and youth law; victims' rights; students' rights; immigration rights; environmental law; consumer protection law; and  others involving social justice matters.