CWOP's core activities include:

• Educating and organizing parents,
• Facilitating parent participation in public hearings, educational conferences and forums, meetings and public events with the New York City Administration for Children's Services (ACS) and other policy-making entities,
• Publication of a parent newsletter, For Parents by Parents
• Ongoing development and implementation of a community based Parent Leadership curriculum intended to prepare parents for roles as advocates, organizers, and informed, empowered participants in system reform efforts.

Through these activities, CWOP helps parents collectively develop the knowledge and access needed to achieve a greater voice in public policy; dispel unwarranted negative stereotypes of users of public child welfare services; and influence public and private agencies to become more respectful of clients in their philosophy and more consumer-driven in their service approach.