Richard Wexler is a noted child welfare advocate and executive director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform, (NCCPR), an organization seeking major change in America's child protection systems, favoring family preservation, opposing excessive and inappropriate interventions, critical of inadequate or inappropriate foster care and adoptions. In Congressional testimony, Wexler has described the group as "a nonpartisan, nonprofit child advocacy organization." Wexler's writing about the child welfare system has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and other major newspapers. He has been interviewed by CBS's 60 Minutes, National Public Radio, CNN, ABC's Good Morning America, NBC's Today, CBS This Morning, ABC World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News, and other media.
