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• 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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  Testimony: Performance Oversight, DMHHS (FY18)

  While at Children’s Law Center we normally focus our testimony on the past performance of an Agency during Oversight, today Sharra Greer, CLC policy director,…

  March 5, 2018

• Resource Annual Reports

  2017 Impact Report

  In 2017, CLC helped more than 5,000 children and their families tackle seemingly insurmountable problems—reaching 1 in every 9 kids in DC’s poorest neighborhoods. Read…

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  Testimony: Performance Oversight, MPD (FY18)

  Many of the youth that we work with at Children’s Law Center–students with disabilities, youth in foster care, missing youth, and commercially and sexually exploited…

  March 1, 2018

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  Testimony: Performance Oversight, OSSE (FY18)

  Children’s Law Center attorney Renee Murphy focuses on the work to be done to improve education quality and equity, one of OSSE’s overarching strategic goals.…

  February 27, 2018

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  Testimony: Performance Oversight, DBH (FY18)

  Nearly 20,000 of the children on Medicaid in DC likely have a mental health disorder that can be identified and requires treatment, but in FY…

  February 26, 2018

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  Testimony: Performance Oversight, DBH - School Based Mental Health (FY18)

  One of the best ways to improve access to mental health care is to provide services where children are. Counseling services in school or at…

  February 26, 2018