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• Resource Fact Sheets

  Pro Bono FAQs

  Children’s Law Center’s pro bono attorneys serve more than 400 children and families every year. All our cases are designed to provide children in the…

• Resource Testimonies/Comments

  FY19 Budget Testimony: CFSA

  Our yearly deep dive into the Mayor’s proposed budget for Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA) is driven by a need to ensure that parents…

  April 19, 2018

• Resource Testimonies/Comments

  Testimony: Department of Buildings Establishment Act

  Almost all of Children’s Law Center’s clients are low-income tenants, which means they should be able to turn to DC’s Department of Consumer and Regulatory…

  April 19, 2018

• Resource Training Presentations & Videos

  Caregiver Custody Training PowerPoints

  A series of PowerPoint presentations developed by Children’s Law Center on representing caregivers in custody cases as a pro bono attorney in the District of…

• Resource Training Manuals

  Caregiver Custody Training Manual

  Below you will find Children’s Law Center’s comprehensive Caregiver Custody Training Manual, broken up into its component tabs.   Tab 1: IntroductionIncludes the manual table of…

• Resource Testimonies/Comments

  FY19 Budget Testimony: Council Committee on Human Services

  At Children’s Law Center, we support the continued investment in crucial services for low-income District residents through the investment of local funding seen in the…

  April 12, 2018

• Resource Testimonies/Comments

  FY19 Budget Testimony: District of Columbia Public Schools

  CLC attorney Renee Murphy encourages the Council to call for increased transparency in DCPS’s budget about specific programs and services for children in special education,…

  March 28, 2018

• Resource Testimonies/Comments

  FY18 Oversight Testimony: DHS

  Children’s Law Center clients come into contact with DHS in many ways, especially through the continuum of services for individuals, youth and families who are…

  March 8, 2018

• Resource Testimonies/Comments

  Testimony: Performance Oversight, ICH (FY18)

  Youth homelessness is a tragedy that far too many of our clients and their peers experience. Every year approximately 800 of the District’s youth under…

  March 8, 2018

• Resource Testimonies/Comments

  Testimony: Performance Oversight, DCRA (FY18)

  DCRA has been a poorly functioning agency for years. DC Superior Court’s Housing Conditions Court was created about nine years ago through advocacy by legal…

  March 8, 2018