Children Seven Things Juvenile Court Judges Should Know about Learning Disabilities Christopher A. Mallett Youth with learning disabilities present challenges to juvenile courts. Explore these challenges and how to address them by understanding laws and proven strategies.
Children Top Child Welfare Blogs Alanna Pawlowski Blogs take you places, offer analysis, and often take sides on controversial hot topics. Stay on top of issues and trends in child welfare with these blogs.
Children Planning a Successful Reunification Event Jey Rajaraman This June is National Reunification Month. How will you celebrate. Legal Services of New Jersey will organize its third event this year. Get tips based on their prior events on organizing a successful event.
Children Lifetime Juvenile Sex Offender Registration Requirement is Unconstitutional Ohio Supreme Court held that statute automatically requiring youth under juvenile court supervision to be subject to public sex offender registration requirements violated the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment and the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Children Nicknames and Cheek Pinching By Teacher Not Emotional Abuse The Connecticut Court of Appeals reversed an order finding a teacher had emotionally abused a child by calling him nicknames and pinching his cheeks. These actions did not rise to the level of emotional abuse where the consensus among other students and the school was that his joking was not clearly inappropriate.
Children Individualized Case Plans Required for Each Parent The Florida District Court of Appeals reversed the portion of the Circuit Court’s order adopting the agency’s proposed case plan for the mother that called for specific services because they were not related to resolving the reasons the child was dependent.
