Why you should attend
Whether representing children, parents or a child welfare or foster care agency, in private practice, government, public interest practice or as a policy advocate, the issues and the environment in which advocates operate is increasingly complex. This year, PLI's 14th Annual Children's Law Institute will focus on a variety of social and legal issues affecting child welfare practice.
What you will learn

• Racial disproportionality in the child welfare and juvenile delinquency systems
• Issues affecting child protective practice - Immigration, Indian and Child Welfare Act, cross jurisdictional youth
• New legislation and case law - including subsidized kinship guardianship, re-entry of former foster youth into foster care, incarcerated parents
• Non-respondent parents in Article 10 cases - including paternity issues, custody/visitation

Who should attend
Child, parent and family advocates working in New York State, in law, social work or public policy, in the private or public sector.

Cost: $595*

PLEASE NOTE:

*Full scholarships to PLI's live seminars and webcasts are available to judges, judicial law clerks, law professors, law students, attorneys 65 or older, law librarians, attorneys who work for nonprofit organizations, legal services organizations or government agencies, and unemployed attorneys. Attorneys in private practice who seek to learn skills that will assist them in pro bono activities are encouraged to apply.

Please contact Leonard McKenzie at 212-824-5826 for additional information.