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The ABA Center on Children and the Law, a program of the Young Lawyers Division, aims to improve children's lives through advances in law, justice, knowledge, practice and public policy. Our areas of expertise include child abuse and neglect, child welfare and protective services system enhancement, foster care, family preservation, termination of parental rights, parental substance abuse, adolescent health, and domestic violence.
Center News and Updates
The American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division is proud to announce the winners of the 2009 Child Advocacy Award.The honorees are: Young Lawyer Recipient: H. J. David Ambroz, Executive Director, Los Angeles City College Foundation. Distinguished Lawyer Recipient: Barbara J. Elias-Perciful, Director, Texas Lawyers for Children The biographies of these awardees will be posted on the YLD's website in the coming weeks. For more information on this award and the honorees, please visit here. |
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Announcing New Federal LegislationOn October 7, 2008 the President signed into law the Fostering Connections to Success and Adoptions Act of 2008 (H.R. 6893). This new law will help connect foster children with their relatives, promote permanent families through relative guardianship, and improve education and health care. The following resources provide summaries of this new law: |
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»Child CourtWorks
| Child CourtWorks is a bimonthly newsletter published by the ABA Center on Children and the Law. Child CourtWorks keeps judges, court administrators, attorneys, social workers, child advocates and others informed of new developments and innovations across state court improvement projects focusing on child abuse and neglect and foster care and offers suggestions for productive juvenile dependency court reform. |




