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  Working With Child Witnesses

  Children are frequently called as witnesses in neglect, adoption, custody, and criminal trials. Attorneys working with child witnesses must consider the child’s stage of development,…

• Resource Testimonies/Comments

  Testimony: Confirmation Hearing for the Director of CFSA 2015

  Executive Director Judith Sandalow testified on priorities for the new director of the DC Child and Family Services Agency. These include: Management of in-home cases…

  July 1, 2015

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  Testimony: The Grandparent Caregivers Program Relative Subsidy Transfer Admendment Act of 2015

  Senior Policy Attorney Damon King testified in favor of the Act, which would allow extended family members raising DC children to receive support under the…

  June 24, 2015

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  Testimony: Public Roundtable on the Value of Investing in Trauma-Informed Public Schools

  Children’s Law Center testified before the Council Education Committee about childhood trauma in DC, how trauma affects learning, and how DC’s public school system should…

  June 23, 2015

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  Addressing Childhood Trauma in DC Schools

  This Children’s Law Center policy paper examines how childhood trauma impacts learning, why children in DC are at risk and what DC schools can do.…

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  FY16 Budget Testimony: District of Columbia Committee of the Whole Budget Hearing

  Children’s Law Center testified before the DC Council Committee of the Whole in support of the Mayor’s proposed one-time, one-year delay in the 60-month cut-off…

  May 8, 2015

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  FY16 Budget Testimony: Office of State Superintendent of Education

  On April 30, 2015, Judith Sandalow, executive director of Children’s Law Center, testfied at the Office of State Superintendent of Education’s agency hearing on Mayor…

  April 30, 2015

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  FY16 Budget Testimony: Child & Family Services Agency

  Executive Director Judith Sandalow testified regarding the Mayor’s proposal for the CFSA’s FY2016 budget. In her testimony, she praised the Mayor for prioritizing the needs…

  April 28, 2015

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  FY16 Budget Testimony: Department of Human Services

  Sharra Greer, policy director at Children’s Law Center, testified before the Committee on Health and Human Services at the Department of Human Services hearing on Mayor Muriel…

  April 24, 2015

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  FY16 Budget Testimony: District of Columbia Public Schools

  On April 23, 2015, Judith Sandalow, executive director of Children’s Law Center, testfied at District of Columbia Public Schools’ agency hearing on Mayor Muriel Bowser’s proposed…

  April 23, 2015