Because children matter...
Karen Worthington Consulting helps child advocacy organizations—nonprofit agencies, governments, and foundations— implement research-based approaches to accomplish their missions effectively and efficiently. Karen Worthington Consulting brings a child centered approach to public policy, legislative advocacy, organizational development, strategic partnerships, project implementation, and community involvement.
Services:
- Policy development and implementation
- Legislative advocacy
- Strategic partnership development and management
- Research projects, analyses, studies
- Government and interagency relations
- Media relations
- Community outreach and education
- Project management
- Writing and editing: books, articles, white papers, fact sheets, editorials, annual reports, web content, educational materials
- Curriculum development and training delivery
- Strategic planning and implementation
- Organizational management
- Grant writing and management
- Speech writing and motivational speaking
Areas of Expertise:
- Federal and state child welfare and juvenile justice law
- Comparative law analysis across states and countries
- Achieving permanence for children in foster care
- Minimizing trauma to child victims
- Ending commercial sexual exploitation of children and helping the victims
- Disproportionate minority contact
- Children’s rights in juvenile court proceedings and out-of-home care
- Ethical issues related to representing children
- Educational, medical, and mental health needs of youth in foster care and detention
- Needs of specific populations in out-of-home care and detention
- Child and adolescent development
- Positive youth engagement
- Parents’ rights in juvenile court proceedings
