Improving Child Welfare in Maine
To improve child welfare in Maine, Chelsea Peters argues that national best practices – including a right to legal counsel for children – are a great place to start.
FJI Demonstration Sites Report
Learn how FJI demonstration sites are improving the lives of children and families through high-quality lawyering.
FJI Winter 2022 Newsletter
Enjoy our first newsletter of the Family Justice Initiative (FJI)! This quarterly newsletter will highlight FJI resources that you can use in your work.
CIP Talk: Making Lived Experience Engagement Authentic
Learn more about making lived experience engagement authentic, intentional, and mutually Beneficial.
CIP Talk: Listen to Believe
Judge Aurora Martinez Jones shares guidance for child welfare judges and advocates on the importance to believe and listen to children.
In Court Advocacy Guide
Check out FJI’s new In Court Advocacy Guide! The guide provides discussion, tips, and tools to enhance in-court advocacy for your clients to help them achieve their case goals.
New Campaign to Ensure Attorneys for Children in Foster Care
The National Association of Counsel for Children launches a new campaign, Counsel for Kids, dedicated to ensuring that children in foster care receive lawyers of their own.
Out-of-Court Advocacy Guide
Out-of-court advocacy is critical in every child welfare legal proceeding. Check out FJI’s Out-of-Court Advocacy Guide
After Safety: The Next Step to Success
In his CIP talk Judge William Thorne (Ret.) discusses how judges and lawyers can promote healing for families and children.
Oped: Right to Representation in Noncriminal Cases
You can lose your kids, home and freedom without ever seeing a lawyer. It’s a profound injustice. Powerful op-ed from The Washington Post on the right to representation in noncriminal cases.