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.
Race Equity Toolkit
Introduction The need for an anti-racist representation toolkit, here’s what you’ll find in this toolkit, it should be used in this way… Key terms that will appear throughout, etc. Background This section will provide a historical narrative and timeline of CW, data & statistics that highlight overrepresentation and bias in reporting and investigation of abuse…
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.
Trauma Exposure Response Guide
As a child welfare attorney, you are regularly exposed to trauma. Check out FJI’s new resource on trauma exposure response for child welfare attorneys.
CIP Talk: Uprooted and Traumatized
Judge Ernestine Gray discusses how to avoid unnnecessary removals in the child welfare system.
Information Memorandum -Civil Legal Advocacy
Civil Legal Advocacy to Promote Child and Family Well-being, Address the Social Determinants of Health, and Enhance Community Resilience.
Article: The Case for a Centralized Office for Legal Representation in Child Welfare Cases
FJI Executive Team member, Mimi Laver, and FJI Communications Work Group Co-Chair, Cathy Krebs, recently published a new article “The Case for a Centralized Office for Legal Representation in Child Welfare Cases.”
CIP Talk: Compassion
Compassion is the the foundation for all reasonable efforts to reunify children with their parents.