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News Behavioral Health
Children’s Law Center Stands Committed to DC’s Children and Families
Click here for our list of available resources to support children and families during COVID-19. Statement from Judith Sandalow in response to COVID-19 Children’s Law…
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News Healthy Housing
WUSA9: 'They deserve to have a healthy home' | Poor housing conditions making kids sick in DC
Through our medical-legal partnerships with clinics like those belonging to Children’s National Hospital, we know that children from Wards 7 and 8 have 20 times the…
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News Behavioral Health
DC Line: Advocates to mayor: Make investments that put DC’s children first
At Children’s Law Center, we strongly believe that it’s time to build a DC budget that puts children first. That’s why we, in partnership with six…
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News Education
The Washington Post: Following a disease diagnosis and tough senior year, she thought she had graduated from high school. She hadn’t.
Sometimes the children we work with face a serious health condition that keeps them out of school for a prolonged period. They might be hospitalized…
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News Healthy Housing
Washington City Paper: Success Is a Matter of Perspective for D.C.’s Temporary Rental Subsidy Program
At Children’s Law Center, we often come into contact with the Rapid Rehousing system through our housing conditions work. Many of the worst housing conditions…
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News Healthy Housing
NBC4: DC Hires Resident Inspectors After Boy Killed in Illegal House Fire
CLC Senior Supervising Attorney Kathy Zeisel spoke with Mark Segraves of NBC4 about the need for more, professional housing inspectors—not DCRA-contracted “Uber” inspectors—to ensure the…
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News Systemic Reform
WUSA9: DC Council wants to split DCRA into 2 separate departments
CLC Senior Supervising Attorney Kathy Zeisel testified before the D.C. Council yesterday on the Department of Buildings Establishment Act of 2019. “We believe the Council…
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News Health
BUILD Blog: Data-Sharing and Analysis: A Medical-Legal Model for National Success
Every year, more than 12,000 children across Washington, DC struggle with asthma. Their struggles are all too often linked to something that can be solved…
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News Healthy Housing
DCist: That Whole ‘Uber, But For Housing Inspectors’ Program Is Up And Running
DCRA has hired hundreds of new “inspectors” in recent months, but they’re not full-tme employees—they’re contracted workers that the agency’s head has described as Uber…
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News Family
The Washington Post: The long wait: For years, she’s been hoping to move into a house that will meet her son’s disability needs
For more than three years, Children’s Law Center has fought to secure accessible housing for Erica Chance and her 5-year-old son, Ayden, who has cerebral…
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