Yale Daily NewsApril 3, 2020
Although children seem to be relatively invulnerable to the worst health effects of COVID-19 — a silver lining as the virus shuts down public life and overwhelms hospitals — they are not immune to its domino effects, like lost jobs, closed schools and interrupted social services. In Connecticut, providers of legal services for children and youth are trying to protect them from the dislocation wrought by the virus.
Attorney Alice Rosenthal leads the pediatric medical-legal partnership at Yale New Haven Hospital…. “This is just sort of pushing everyone over the edge, financially, emotionally and physically. All my clients are having food struggles.”
… Stacey Violante Cote, an attorney with the Center for Children’s Advocacy’s Homeless Youth Advocacy Project, represents youth who are homeless … One concern is that people, including youth, are being encouraged not to stay in shelters because of the challenge of practicing physical distancing …
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