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Everyone Plays a Role: Elevating Education for PK-12 Students in Foster Care Through Lived Expertise, Practice and Policy National Working Group (NWG) Recorded Webinar
Last month, we let you know about an ABA workshop entitled, Everyone Plays a Role: Elevating Education for PK-12 Students in Foster Care Through Lived Expertise, Practice and Policy. The organizers have made a recording of the session available HERE. … Read More
National Family Unification Month
As part of the ABA Center on Children and the Law’s focus on family unity, we celebrate not just the families who have been able to reunify, but also the importance of preventing removals and separations whenever possible and keeping … Read More
How Child Welfare Agencies Can Support Reunification
The American Bar Association’s Center on Children and the Law hosted a webinar, “What Child Welfare Agencies Can Do to Support Reunification,” on resource and foster caregivers’ roles in the reunification process. The session focused on how child welfare agencies can facilitate … Read More
Trauma-Informed Legal Representation for Youth in Sexual-Abuse-to-Prison Pipeline
When we criminalize the behavioral results of trauma, we set in motion a cycle of abuse and imprisonment that has harmful consequences for child victims. A few years ago, the Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation (CEASE) Clinic at the … Read More