FAQs and Updates on Key Issues in Child Protection Law
Advocating for Services
Appellate Advocacy
- Handbook of Connecticut Appellate Procedure
- Instructions for Child Protection Appeals
- Judicial Branch Appellate Court Website
Educational Advocacy
- Expulsion Representation Checklist
Connecticut Legal Services and New Haven Legal Assistance - Legal Rights of English Language Learners (ELLs): State and Federal Law
- Questions to Ensure that Children’s Educational Needs are Being Met
Evidence
Immigration Issues
Medical and Dental Care
Pre-Service Training for Contract Attorneys
- Contents: 2020 CT Contract Attorneys Pre-Service Training
- Adjudication and Disposition
- Advocacy at Administrative Meetings
- Dealing with OTCs from Affidavit to Trial
- Ethics Manual
- Evidence and Confidential Privilege
- Expert Witnesses
- Introduction to Child Welfare Practice
- Motions Practice and Obtaining Records
- Overview of DCF
- Permanency Planning and Termination of Parental Rights
- Representing Parents and Advocating for Services
- Representing Very Young Children
- Youth Voice
- Zealous Advocacy at Administrative Hearings
- Qualified Protective Order (HIPAA)
Records
Representing Children
- Adjudication and Disposition
- Advocating for Very Young Children in Dependency Proceedings
Practice and Policy Brief from ABA Center on Children and the Law - Attorney Checklist
- Basics of Permanency Planning
- CDC’s Developmental Milestones
- Counseling Children and Youth in Times of Crisis: Understanding Child Development and Building Rapport, ABA Child Law Practice
- How to Involve Children in Court ABA Child Law Center
- Interacting with DCF
- Neglect Petition Checklist
- Order of Temporary Custody (OTC) Checklist
- Six Things You Should Know About Growing up in Foster Care, Mary Lee
- Termination of Parental Rights (TPR)
- Tools for Engaging Children in their Court Proceedings
- Working with DCF
Representing Incarcerated Parents
- Helping Children with Parents in Prison and Children in Foster Care
- Incarcerated Parents and Termination of Parental Rights in CT
- Incarcerated Parents: Training Presentation Philadelphia Community Legal Services
Subsidized Guardianship
Visitation
- Changes in Children’s Behavior Before and After Parent Visits
- Family Time and Visitation for Children and Youth in Out-of-Home Care, ACF Memo
- Impact of Continued Contact with Biological Parents upon Mental Health of Children in Foster Care
- Post Termination Visitation Alexis Williams, University of Connecticut Law Review
- Supporting Parent-Child Visits
- Tips for Supporting Virtual Family Time
- Visitation
- Virtual Family Time: Tips for Families
