Resolution 605, SICAA and Beyond: Impactful Legislative Changes and the Disparate Impact on LGBTQ Youth

_{Webinar recorded on 5/16/2024}

Description:

Despite decades of knowledge about challenges in congregate care settings, meaningful change has proven exceptionally difficult to achieve.
This panel, led by survivor and policy expert, Caroline Cole, will discuss the challenges and opportunities for effective policy change at the federal, state, and local levels as well as the additional policy challenges for protecting the civil rights of marginalized groups.  ABA Introduction by Skip Harsch, SOGI Director.

Moderator

• Caroline Cole, Survivor and SICAA Architect, 11:11 Impact

Panelists

• Congressman Ro Khanna, California's 17th Congressional District
• Cassandra Sanchez, Child Advocate, NH Office of the Child Advocate
• Emily Virgin, Human Rights for Kids
• Tracie Johnson, Youth Ombudsperson,  the City of Philadelphia

Co-Sponsors

• Human Rights for Kids
• The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
• National Center for Lesbian Rights
• 11:11 Media Impact
• ABA Section  on Civil Rights and Social Justice
• ABA Commission on Homelessness and Poverty
• ABA Center for Children and the Law
• ABA Litigation Section
• ABA Section of Family Law

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