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Ensuring Quality Parent Representation Judges can take creative steps to improve the quality of representation parents receive in child welfare cases. Get tips and guidance to raise the bar in your courtroom.

Nominations Open for Mark Hardin Award The Mark Hardin Award for Child Welfare Legal Scholarship and Systems Change honors the work of Mark Hardin, an early innovator in the child welfare legal field. Submit a nomination today!

Revised Handbook on Questioning Children Get your copy of the new Handbook on Questioning Children - everything lawyers and judges should know when interviewing children in forensic settings.

What's New

Child Trafficking Video

A touching video with Withelma "T" Ortiz Pettigrew, former foster child and sex trafficking victim.

Check CLP's new article: "Federal Guidance to Address Child Trafficking"

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Resource: Factsheet on Educational Outcomes of Children in Care

The Working Group on Foster Care and Education has released an updated version of its factsheet Fostering Success in Education: National Factsheet on the Educational Outcomes of Children in Foster Care

Legal Ctr for Foster Care & Educ.

At the ABA Midyear Meeting, the ABA House of Delegates approved child-related policies:
109A -Youth leaving foster care
109B - Trauma-informed advocacy
103A - Appellate representation for juveniles

ABA Child-Related Policies

On the Road

If we're not here, we're in the field. See where Center staff & consultants are heading.

March 6 & 8: Wells Conference, Ohio
March 11: Safety Guide Work
March 13: Wyoming Radio Broadcast - Improving Youth Attendance and Participation in Court

April 5: Youth in Court project: Youth Training, Kansas
April 8-10: Youth in Court: GAL Trainings, Kansas
April 9: Sexual Identity Issues for Youth

See calendar for details

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