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ABA Center for Children and the Law

»About the Center

The ABA Center on Children and the Law, a program of the Young Lawyers Division, aims to improve children's lives through advances in law, justice, knowledge, practice and public policy. Our areas of expertise include child abuse and neglect, child welfare and protective services system enhancement, foster care, family preservation, termination of parental rights, parental substance abuse, adolescent health, and domestic violence.

More about the Center

New Center Jobs

• Staff Attorney 2 (L10E110), Barriers to Permanency Project

• Staff Attorney/Project Director (L10E110), Parent Representation Project

• Staff Attorney 2 (L10E110), Parent Representation Project

• Assistant Director (P12E208), National Child Welfare Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues

Center News and Updates

Open Call for Suggested Presentations (Nov. 28 Deadline)

2009 Center on Children and the Law’s Biannual National Conference |
May 14-16., 2009 | Washington DC

Mark your calendar to come to Washington DC next spring to attend the Center on Children and the Law’s Biannual National Conference on May 14-16. And if you can, plan to come a day early to attend a special program on representing parents in child welfare cases. Look to this space for additional details after Labor Day, and send us an email at childlaw2009@abanet.org if you would like to receive a program brochure this fall.

Advance registration for the 2009 Center on Children and the Law’s Biannual National Conference is OPEN. Click Here

Announcing New Federal Legislation

on October 7, 2008 the President signed into law the Fostering Connections to Success and Adoptions Act of 2008 (H.R. 6893). This new law will help connect foster children with their relatives, promote permanent families through relative guardianship, and improve education and health care. The following resources provide summaries of this new law:


 


Featured Publications

Opening Doors for LGBTQ Youth in Foster Care: A Guide for Lawyers and Judges

By Mimi Laver and Andrea Khoury

This guide aims to increase the legal community’s awareness of LGBTQ youth in foster care and the issues they face. It provides tools for lawyers and judges to aid their advocacy and decision making on behalf of LGBTQ youth. Special attention is given to helping lawyers and judges understand the unique needs and risk factors of LGBTQ youth, forming positive attitudes and beliefs about LGBTQ youth, developing strong attorney-client relationships, and using effective advocacy strategies.

Center Projects

• ABA Permanency Project
• Adolescent Health (PIPPAH)
• Bar-Youth/Aging Out of Foster Care
• Court Improvements Child Welfare (CIP)
• Closed Circuit & Recording Technology
• Commission on Youth at Risk
• Disaster Planning Child Welfare Law Issues
• Fathers in the Child Welfare System
• Grandfamilies State Law and Policy Resource Center (formerly known as the Kinship Care Legal Research Center)
• Health of Infants, Toddlers & Preschoolers (IUMCH)
• Juvenile Status Offense Projects
• Legal Center for Foster Care & Education
• Opening Doors/LGBTQ Youth in Foster Care
• Parent Representation
• Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues
Coming Soon | Previous Work

»Child Law Practice

This Month's Topics:

  • Advocating for the Constitutional Rights of Nonresident Fathers
  • Special Education Decision Making: Role of the Child’s Attorney
  • Parents’ Social Workers Help Parents Succeed
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»Child CourtWorks

Child CourtWorks is a bimonthly newsletter published by the ABA Center on Children and the Law. Child CourtWorks keeps judges, court administrators, attorneys, social workers, child advocates and others informed of new developments and innovations across state court improvement projects focusing on child abuse and neglect and foster care and offers suggestions for productive juvenile dependency court reform.

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