ABC has fought tirelessly to establish a far-reaching campaign on behalf of disadvantaged children. By creating replicable, cost-effective and humane model programs that impact public policy, by speaking out in public forums, by widely circulating its special reports, and by bringing class-action lawsuits on behalf of children in need, it has achieved essential reforms such as ensuring inclusionary education for disabled preschoolers, securing HIV counseling, testing and treatment for all children including those in foster care and eliminating the cruel and expensive practice of "boarding" babies, leaving them to languish in pediatric wards of hospitals.

Most recently, ABC won an important victory for homeless children with asthma in a major federal class action lawsuit. Both the State and the City have agreed to provide outreach, early and free periodic screening, diagnosis and corrective treatment for New York's poorest children. Routine preventive care eliminates needless suffering and makes certain that a potentially debilitating condition will be diagnosed early, before it becomes medically more complex, costlier to treat and permanently disabling.

In its pursuit to secure basic rights for children, ABC has been privileged to have the pro bono counsel of Mitchell S. Bernard, Colin Crawford, David Frankel, John Kinsey, Margaret Keane, Larry Lustberg and the following leading law firms: Kramer, Levin, Naftolis & Frankel; Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson; LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & Macrae; and Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione.