Publications and Videos

Center for Children’s Advocacy offers many publications:

Legal Rights Books and Videos

Teen Legal Rights

Medical Legal Information for Providers and Patients

Annual Reports

Additional Publications and Videos

• Setting Young Children Up for Success: Decreasing Suspensions by Investing in Social and Emotional Development, Center for Children’s Advocacy, CHDI, Office of the Child Advocate, February 2018
• In Our Language Please: English Language Learners and Language Access in Bridgeport Public Schools; Policy and Practice Recommendations from Parents and Advocates, Center for Children’s Advocacy, Make the Road Connecticut, Yale Law School Civil Rights Project, 2018
• Students First: Ensuring Excellence and Opportunity for Students in CT’s Juvenile Justice System
  Alexandra Dufresene, Marisa Halm, Leon Smith, Kathryn Meyer, Martha Stone, Center for Children’s Advocacy, Jan 2016
• Opening Doors: Plan to Provide CT Youth with Safe, Stable Homes and Opportunities
  Homeless Youth Workgroup of Opening Doors CT, March, 2015
• Preventing School Push Out –  Center for Children’s Advocacy Report, 2013
• Invisible No More – Creating Opportunities for Youth who are Homeless, 2013
• Blind Spot: Impact of Missed Early Warning Signs on Children’s Mental Health
  Andrea Spencer, PhD, Educational Consultant to Center for Children’s Advocacy, 2012
• Truancy Intervention: National Models and Connecticut Initiatives
  Center for Children’s Advocacy, December 2015
• Truancy and Education Reports
  Andrea Spencer, PhD, Educational Consultant to Center for Children’s Advocacy
  – A Closer Look: Link between unmet educational needs and truancy, 2006
  – Las Niñas Silenciadas: Broken links between language, culture and learning, 2009
• Life After Lockup: Your Legal Rights when you Come Back to the Community
  Center for Children’s Advocacy, 2009
• Changing the Judiciary’s Relaltionship with a Community
  ABA Judges’ Journal, Summer 2007
  Justice Richard Palmer and Appellate Judge Douglas Lavine, Truancy Court Prevention Project
• Vera Institute Report: Making Court the Last Resort
  Supporting Families in Crisis
• Education vs. Incarceration: The Real Cost of Failing Our Kids
  CPTV documentary featuring Center for Children’s Advocacy executive director Martha Stone. Examines the state’s alarming incarceration of children.
• Providing Holistic Legal Services to Children in their Communities
  Clearinghouse Review, 2005
• Make Sure You Call. 
  The Village for Families & Children
• I Started Skipping at a Very Young Age.
  The Village for Families & Children
  
• I Was Out There Doing Bad Things.
  The Village for Families & Children
  
• If My Grandmother Would Have Found Out.
  The Village for Families & Children