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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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FY21 Budget Testimony: DCRA

Children’s Law Center Senior Supervising Attorney Kathy Zeisel recently shared her DCRA testimony with the DC Council. Time after time our clients have suffered the health-harming effects of living…

May 27, 2020
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FY21 Budget Testimony: DHS & CFSA

Children’s Law Center Executive Director Judith Sandalow recently shared her testimony for DC’s Department of Human Services (DHS) and Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA) before the DC…

May 22, 2020
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FY21 Budget Testimony: DOEE

Children’s Law Center Special Counsel Buck Logan recently shared his DOEE testimony with the DC Council. Buck’s testimony expressed CLC’s concern that proposed budget cuts that…

May 21, 2020
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Testimony: Critical Risk Rate School Funding Designation Act of 2019

Many of the kids Children Law Center represents attend DC Public Schools (DCPS), and we see firsthand the critical impact appropriate funding, services, and educational…

March 10, 2020
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FY20 Oversight Testimony: Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs

Many of the children and families that we represent each year live in terrible housing conditions and receive no meaningful assistance from the Department of…

March 5, 2020
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FY20 Oversight Testimony: Department of Health Care Finance

Children’s Law Center Executive Director Judith Sandalow testified today before the DC Council’s Committee on Health regarding the performance of the DC’s Department of Health…

March 5, 2020
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FY20 Oversight Testimony: Office of the State Superintendent of Education

Children’s Law Center Policy Director Sharra E. Greer recently shared testimony at the Office of the State Superintendent of Education’s (OSSE) oversight hearing. Nearly all…

February 26, 2020
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FY20 Oversight Testimony: DC Health

Children’s Law Center Policy Attorney Tami Weerasingha-Cote recently shared her testimony about DC Health with DC Council’s Committee on Health. Through our work and participation in the…

February 20, 2020
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FY20 Oversight Testimony: DC Public Schools

Many of the kids Children’s Law Center represents attend DC Public School (DCPS), and we see firsthand the critical impact appropriate funding, services, and educational supports…

February 19, 2020
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FY20 Oversight Testimony: Office of the Attorney General

Children’s Law Center has successfully partnered with the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) throughout the last year on issue areas including improving housing conditions…

February 13, 2020