The mission of the National Children's Law Network (NCLN) is to improve the lives and opportunities of court-involved children across the country. We accomplish this mission in three ways:
The child advocacy organizations that comprise our network represent youth from low-income families who are involved in the justice system due in part to their unmet needs for permanency, family resilience, safety, education, health services or emotional supports, and whose complex problems and needs often confound traditional providers of legal and social servies.
The NCLN is building on our common strengths to expand the capacity, quality, and sustainability of each organization and extend our impact on vital issues of children's policy.
NCLN’s database supports our efforts to develop outcomes measures and better data collection methods in order to improve legal services for children.