Advocacy

The Children’s Law Center actively participates in ongoing advocacy efforts at the state level; promoting professional development in the legal community concerning the representation of children, and monitoring legislative initiatives related to children and family law.

The organization’s advocacy efforts made great strides in 2010 when the Children’s Law Center became coordinators of the Academies for Children's Advocacy, one of four regional academies with the purpose of creating think tanks and working groups to support and educate attorneys representing children in family court. The group explores such issues as attorneys and social workers collaborating to focus on the mental health of children in divorce cases, and psychological vs. psychiatric evaluations, when to order which, and what to expect to get when you order them. All sessions held in 2010 were attended by area attorneys and mental health professionals and were filled to capacity.