As a child welfare attorney, you are regularly exposed to trauma. This repeated exposure to the intimate details of traumatic events results in negative behavioral, physical, and emotional consequences that can affect your professional and personal life. Trauma exposure response … Read More
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Getting Down to Basics: Tools to Support LGBTQ Youth in Care
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) young people are in America’s child welfare and juvenile justice systems in disproportionate numbers. Like all young people in care, they have the right to be safe and protected. All too often, however, … Read More
Utilizing Title IV-E Funds to Support High Quality Legal Representation for Children & Youth Who are in Foster Care
ACYF-CB-IM-21-06 Issued: January 14, 2021 from Children’s Bureau Memorandum from the Administration for Children and Families. The purpose of this information memorandum (IM) is to urge all state and tribal title IV-E agencies, courts, administrative offices of the courts, and … Read More
Qualifications and Standards for Attorneys Representing Children in Need of Care
Background Since its enactment in 1974, CAPTA has required appointment of a “guardian ad litem” in “every case involving an abused or neglected child which results in a judicial proceeding.” States must meet this requirement, among others, in order to … Read More
Child Safety Powerpoint
This presentation and the Child Safety Guide are both a collaboration between the National Resource Centers on Child Protective Services and the National Resource Center for Legal and Judicial Issues. The expertise of both these RC’s combines to give the … Read More
Reasonable Efforts as Prevention
by Jerry Milner and David Kelly – November 6, 2006 Far too often the wrong examples drive child welfare policy and practice in the United States. We see it time and time again in jurisdictions where there is a child fatality; … Read More