The Barron Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN: 41-2418788). We believe transparency is the foundation of trust. Here is what we have built — and what your support makes possible.
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Impact is what we have changed — not what we have studied. Every page that follows is a receipt. Laws passed. Coalitions built. Children seen. State by state. Courtroom by courtroom.
The Barron Foundation does three things: we make protective parents visible through the #HotPinkForChildren movement, we educate communities and lawmakers about family court failures, and we fight for policy change that puts child safety first.
We put hot pink signs in the hands of protective parents at courthouses, businesses, and community events across America. Every sign is a declaration that a child’s safety matters. Every sign makes the invisible visible.
We educate protective parents, advocates, businesses, and the public about coercive control, post-separation abuse, and the systemic failures of family courts — through our website, resources, magazine, and events.
We build coalitions with lawmakers, advocates, and community leaders across the country. Family Court Awareness Month in November is our national platform for demanding accountability from the systems that are failing children.
The #HotPinkForChildren challenge and the Barron Standard Business Partner program are building a visible, national movement. Protective parents — mothers, fathers, and caregivers — are no longer fighting alone.
As a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, we are committed to putting the maximum possible resources toward our mission. Here is how contributions are allocated.
The Barron Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (EIN: 41-2418788). Your contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
We do not pay for advertising. We do not have paid lobbyists. We do not have a board of executives drawing six-figure salaries. Every dollar that comes in goes toward the mission.
Questions about our financials? Contact us directly at info@barron-foundation.org or 478.227.6393.
The Barron Foundation was built from lived experience — not a conference room. Here is how a mother who refused to stop became a national movement.
Dr. Kreslyn Barron Odum enters the family court system. What begins as a personal fight becomes the foundation of a national movement. The education starts here.
The Barron Foundation is established — named for the founder’s middle name, her mother’s maiden name, and a lineage of women who do not bend.
Member of the National Safe Parents Organization (NSPO) and featured in national news coverage alongside NSPO promoting child safety and family court reform. A coalition built on shared mission.
Featured as a trusted source for CNN investigative reporters and national media covering family court failures. The foundation’s voice reaches millions — and continues to grow.
Partnership established with One Mom’s Battle — one of the nation’s leading communities for protective parents navigating narcissistic abuse and family court.
Convened virtually with family court reform experts and protective parents across Australia and Canada — collaborative sessions affirming that the crisis facing children is global, and that the coalition fighting it is, too.
Completed training with CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) and established a formal partnership. The Barron Foundation partnered with CASA for state and local fundraisers — deepening ties between the two organizations and expanding resources for children in the court system.
Partnership with Georgia Protective Parents — strengthening state-level advocacy and community support for families navigating the Georgia family court system.
The Barron Foundation receives formal 501(c)(3) nonprofit status (EIN: 41-2418788). Tax-deductible. Accountable. Built to last.
The Barron Foundation takes over Family Court Awareness Month — the national initiative bringing community voices to courthouses every November in communities across the country.
Featured in a documentary screened at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. The family court crisis reaches a national audience.
The first Hot Pink Day event is held — hot pink signs at a courthouse, a community showing up together, and the proof that the movement is real. The model that will go national.
Connected with the National Family Violence Law Center at George Washington University — deepening the foundation’s legal and policy knowledge base and national network.
Dr. Odum brought the foundation’s mission directly to the halls of power in 2025 — meeting with Senator Jon Ossoff’s U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law — the bipartisan investigation into Georgia’s Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS), Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, U.S. Representative Buddy Carter, and Georgia State Representative Steven Meeks. She worked alongside the Georgia Domestic Violence Coalition at the Georgia State Capitol, Georgia Protective Parents, and connected with state senators and representatives from Arizona and Oregon. The Barron Standard is now a voice in the rooms where policy is made. Dr. Odum has also built working relationships with local law enforcement agencies and mayors throughout Georgia, as well as the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS) — bringing the foundation’s mission into the heart of community leadership.
Dr. Odum advocated at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta during the 2025 legislative session:
The Barron Foundation invests deeply in continuing education — coercive control, narcissistic abuse, trauma treatment, forensic evaluation, high conflict communication, child safety, CASA advocacy, and family court reform. Direct engagement with leading practitioners across the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Canada brings a global perspective to an American crisis. Full credentials and certifications are available in the Press kit.
Invited at the request of leaders in the field to participate in Stage 2 of the ECCBS — the first peer-reviewed scale developed to measure coercive control, child and mother sabotage, and post-separation abuse in family court contexts. The research, led by PhD researcher Nic Robson under the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, is designed to support structured professional assessments and inform safeguarding responses worldwide.
Joined Tina Swithin (One Mom’s Battle) and protective parents from across the United States, convened in California — sharing strategy, deepening the national coalition, and strengthening the network that fights for children in every state.
Traveled to New York for coalition work alongside advocates and protective parents continuing to build the national network for family court reform.
Dr. Odum met in Honolulu with the Hawai‘i State Commission on the Status of Women and the Domestic Violence Action Center (DVAC) — extending the foundation’s coalition into a state that codified coercive control through Act 27, and connecting with DVAC’s PIKO program serving protective parents and child witnesses through family court.
Dr. Odum took part in the ABA Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence’s program on Challenging Parental Alienation: New Directions for Professionals and Parents — scholarship arguing that “parental alienation” principles should be avoided by family courts. The program reinforces the foundation’s evidence-based position that abuse, not “alienation,” belongs at the center of custody decisions.
A working meeting in Memphis with Tennessee Safe Parents opened the most significant correction to the national proclamation record to date. Tennessee’s documented total moved from 17 jurisdictions to 77 — including three state-level recognitions and sixty-three standing proclamations that renew every November without being requested again. That standing-proclamation model is now built into the foundation’s national toolkit. The same trip included time at the Memphis Suffrage Monument and the National Civil Rights Museum — a reminder that the movements that changed this country were built by small numbers of determined women, one jurisdiction at a time.
Dr. Odum traveled to England to meet with the University of Manchester research team behind the ECCBS, and in London with national domestic abuse organizations and family law scholars — including Women’s Aid. Discussions centered on post-separation abuse, the evidentiary treatment of coercive control, and England’s removal of the presumption of parental involvement from family law — a reform with no American equivalent, and one worth watching closely.
The foundation completed a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction audit of every Family Court Awareness Month proclamation on record. An inherited, unsourced national estimate was replaced with 267 documented proclamations across 26 states, nineteen of them at the state level, each tied to a primary record. Where a record could not be verified, it was removed — even though that made the number smaller. Advocacy is only as durable as the numbers behind it.
Ten states now have a designated Family Court Awareness Month lead with a foundation email address, a state target list, and direct support. The 2026 Proclamation Toolkit — an editable request letter, model proclamation language, and a one-page fact sheet for officials — is published free for any parent in any town. Hot Pink Day is now a permanent national date — the third Wednesday of every November, falling on November 18 in 2026.
The #HotPinkForChildren movement, the Barron Standard Business Partner program, Family Ct. magazine, and Hot Pink Day event kits are bringing the fight into every community in America. Eight years and counting. The work continues.
Hours logged and laws passed matter — but the truest measure of impact is the supporters who keep showing up. Grandmothers. Daughters. Neighbors. Strangers who became family.
This is what a movement looks like when it takes root.
Every donation. Every sign. Every business partner. Every shared post. It all adds up to a system that cannot look away from 58,000 children.
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