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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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2024-25 Performance Oversight Testimony: Department of Buildings
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2024-25 Oversight Testimony: Department of Behavioral Health
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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FY21 Budget Testimony: Education Budget
Children’s Law Center Executive Director Judith Sandalow recently shared her education budget testimony with the DC Council’s Education Committee. At CLC, we work with children in…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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