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• Resource Testimonies/Comments

  Comment: Mold Assessment and Remediation Licensure Rulemaking

  Together with Legal Counsel for the Elderly and Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia, Children’s Law Center submitted comments on proposed regulations published…

  October 26, 2015

• Resource Testimonies/Comments

  Testimony: Advancing Year Round Access to Shelter Policy and Prevention of Homelessness Amendment Act of 2015

  Executive Director Judith Sandalow testified before the DC Council Committee of the Whole regarding the Mayor’s proposed bill, which changes District laws about shelter facilities…

  October 13, 2015

• Resource Fact Sheets

  2015 Special Education Legislation

  In 2014, the DC Council passed a legislative package of three bills that reform DC’s special education system.  Children’s Law Center helped shape the bills,…

• Resource Testimonies/Comments

  Testimony: OSSE Special Education Rulemaking Recommendations 2015

  Senior Policy Attorney Renee Murphy testified about proposed revisions to special education regulations in Chapter 30, implementing sections of the Special Education Student Rights Act…

  August 20, 2015

• Resource Testimonies/Comments

  Comment: Special Education Rulemaking

  Along with her Aug. 20 testimony, Children’s Law Center’s Senior Policy Attorney Renee Murphy submitted comments regarding proposed revisions to special education regulations from the Office…

  August 20, 2015

• Resource Training Manuals

  Special Education Pro Bono Attorney Training Manual

  Below you will find Children’s Law Center’s comprehensive Special Education Training Manual, broken up into its component tabs. Please note: Identifying information included in any…

• Resource Fact Sheets

  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

• Resource Testimonies/Comments

  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

• Resource Testimonies/Comments

  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