Legal Representation

Documents

A Child's Right to Counsel (.pdf)
A National Report Card on Legal Representation for Abused and Neglected Children

Advocating for Non-Resident Fathers in Child Welfare Court Cases
Book and training curriculum from ABA Center on Children and the Law

Links

National Quality Improvement Center on the Representation of Children in the Child Welfare System (QIC-ChildRep)
In October 2009, the U.S. Children’s Bureau named University of Michigan Law School the National Quality Improvement Center on the Representation of Children in the Child Welfare System (QIC-ChildRep). The QIC-ChildRep, is a five-year, $5 million dollar project to gather, develop and communicate knowledge on child representation, promote consensus on the role of the child’s legal representative, and provide one of the first empirically-based analyses of how legal representation for the child might best be delivered.