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Our policy advocacy is grounded in the experience we have gained helping more than 50,000 District children and families since our founding in 1996. We use this expertise to advocate for city-wide solutions that better serve children’s needs. Use the filters below to find our testimonies, comments, letters and reports.

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FY25 Budget Testimony: Office of the Ombudsperson for Children

April 25, 2024
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FY25 Budget Testimony: Department of Behavioral Health

April 10, 2024
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FY25 Budget Testimony: Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants

April 25, 2024

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Human Services Public Roundtable: CFSA Testimony

Many of the DC children in foster care we serve have struggled with remote learning or supervision issues during the pandemic. While we commend CFSA…

November 4, 2020
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Human Services Public Roundtable: DHS Testimony

As we enter the eighth month of the pandemic, we know that children and families are going to need the supports that DHS provides even…

November 4, 2020
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Testimony: Eviction Record Sealing Authority Amendment Act of 2019

The housing insecurity generated by the pandemic throughout DC is likely to worsen as the eviction moratorium eventually ends. That’s why Children’s Law Center supports the…

October 30, 2020
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FY20 Oversight Testimony: The Public Health Element of DC's COVID19 Response

Children’s Law Center Policy Attorney Tami Weerasingha-Cote shared testimony before the Committee on Health regarding the public health element of the District’s COVID-19 response. We work with…

October 28, 2020
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Testimony: Return to In-Person Instruction in DC Public Schools

Children’s Law Center Policy Director Sharra E. Greer testified before the DC Council’s Committee of the Whole and Committee on Education to stress the need for DCPS’s school…

October 23, 2020
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FY20 Oversight Testimony: Department of Behavioral Health

Children’s Law Center Policy Attorney Tami Weerasingha-Cote shared testimony before the Committee on Health regarding the significant behavioral health needs of DC’s children and families. The ongoing…

October 22, 2020
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FY20 Oversight Testimony: Distance Learning

Children’s Law Center Policy Director Sharra E. Greer shared testimony at the Committee of the Whole and Committee on Education Joint Distance Learning oversight hearing…

October 2, 2020
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FY21 Budget Testimony: Access to Justice Grants

Children’s Law Center strongly believes that civil legal services not only help DC residents access justice, but that early legal intervention can have significant societal…

June 17, 2020
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FY21 Budget Testimony: MPD

Nearly all of the kids Children’s Law Center represents are Black and Brown, and many routinely interact with the Metropolitan Police Department officers in their schools, at home and in…

June 15, 2020
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FY21 Budget Testimony: Committee on Health

Children’s Law Center Executive Director Judith Sandalow recently shared her Department of Behavioral Health budget testimony with the DC Council’s Committee on Health. Year after year, CLC…

June 10, 2020