Twenty Years of Important Milestones for Connecticut Children
- From one lawyer in 1997 to 22 staff in 2017
- From one small room to offices in Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport
- Emily J – access to mental health care for juvenile justice youth
- Legal services to youth right in their own communities
- Sheff – 42 Magnet Schools for thousands of children
- Over 20,000 children impacted by systemic advocacy
- Over 5000 individual children represented
- First Connecticut Medical-Legal Partnership
- Offices in major hospitals in poorest cities
- Legal Clinics in city high schools
- Advocacy for housing and supports for youth who are homeless
- Racial Justice Project to relieve inequities
- First Mobile Legal Office in Connecticut
- Medical transportation for low-income families
- Immigrant Children’s Project to protect new arrivals
- From 40 children served in 1997 to 978 in 2017
- Hundreds protected from utility shutoff each year
- Enormous reductions in juvenile justice racial disparities
- Huge reduction in school-based arrests
- Statewide training for all child protection attorneys
- Revamped standards for Alternative Schools
- 75 legislative victories to protect children and youth
- Brigade of pro-bono attorneys trained to protect immigrant children
- Special Education screening for thousands of young children
- Legislative ban on out-of-schools suspensions of very young children
- Educational standards for children who have been expelled
- Special education services for children with disabilities
- Youth Voice: promoted at legislature, residential facilities, DCF care
- Annual behavioral health screenings for thousands of poor children
- Expanded services for children with autism
- Training youth on first amendment rights
