Challenging the Media Narrative: Through reprints of parents’ stories, original reporting, letters to the editor, op-eds, and interviews, Rise has worked to shift public images of parents in publications including The New York Times, the Marshall Project, The Appeal, Fusion, Slate, Jezebel, The Imprint, The Daily Beast, City Limits, The Nation, The New Republic, Colorlines and the Daily News.

In 2016, Rise documented the trauma of investigations and, in 2017, the price of parenting while poor.

Media began to significantly shift with 2017’s Foster Care As Punishment: The New Reality of Jane Crow in The New York Times and When Should a Child Be Taken From His Parents? in The New Yorker.

In 2018, NPR’s LatinoUSA interviewed Rise for In the Hands of the State and Andrew Solomon included Rise parents in New Family Values.

In 2019, The New York Times covered two parent-led legislative efforts – to preserve family bonds after adoption and to reform the state central registry.