History and Accomplishments

Highlights of Accomplishments - 1990

• CRC meets with UNICEF, UNESCO, the Child Welfare League of America and others at the White House urging President Bush to send the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of the Child to the U.S. Senate for ratification.
• CRC helps to defeat Congressional legislation (S.185) which would criminalize international abduction by the non-custodial parent, but exempt the custodial parent.  A bill further considered ineffective by the U.S. Justice Department, and supportive of the CRC recommendation to make the bill gender neutral and subject the same penalties to either parent regardless of custody status.
• With the increasing success of CRC in the Nation’s Capital, organizations and individuals began to affiliate and develop chapters throughout the world.  In 1990, CRC welcomed the first of 55 chapters in 38 states and the District of Columbia, as well as in the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Switzerland, France, Australia, and Sierra Leone.
• CRC hosts its 5th annual national conference “New Approaches for Children in the Nineties” in Arlington, Virginia with keynote speakers Frank S. Williams, M.D. and David Lloyd, Esq.
• David L. Levy and Isolina Ricci are featured speakers at the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts Regional Conference to help improve the practice and procedures of family court services working with parents in highly conflicted disputes.
• David L. Levy called to give Congressional testimony before the House Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education and Related Agencies, with CRC testimony favoring support of Section 504 of the Family Support Act to provide $4 million for access (visitation) demonstration projects.
• President Bush sends a strong message of support for the first ever candlelight vigil hosted by CRC in awareness of positive parenting issues.

Highlights of Accomplishments