Using data from our Child Advocate Attorney Program, CVP is leading one of the most comprehensive evaluations of child advocate attorneys in family court to date. This work is essential to making the child advocate attorney model the standard in family law — and to supporting policy change and systemic reform.

Our research spans multiple studies — a Child Interview Study, the Child Advocate Pilot Program Evaluation, and the National Family Court Survey — offering long-term insight into child-centered practice, litigation outcomes, family well-being, and children’s lived experiences.

Led by Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Stef Sloan — a forensic child custody evaluator and principal investigator on national, federally funded studies — our research is both methodologically rigorous and deeply child-centered, conducted under Institutional Review Board oversight with children’s experiences at the center.