The Children's Law Center

I am so excited to annouce that The Children's Law Center received a discretionary grant award with support from Council Member Rita Joseph to help launch our Children’s Voice Project. With this support, we are bringing together young people with lived experience as subject children in complex custody, visitation, domestic violence and guardianship proceedings in Family Court. Our clients are among the City's most vulnerable children, often with very little access to support from government agencies. These children and young people stand at the intersection of so many systems and competing needs that they can easily fall through the cracks. We are making it our mission to change that. Our goal for our Children’s Voice Project is to provide a forum for young people to help shape the conversation around Family Court, family law, and what children need to thrive. Children should be seen and heard! Thank you to New York City Council , Joel Desouve (he/him)

A special post for our fabulous interns! We are lucky to have a dedicated and passionate group of legal interns this summer with us at The Children's Law Center. Thank you for bringing your talent, creativity and hard work to CLC to support children. You are making a difference in so many lives! And thank you to Rachel Stanton for leading the internship committee. We are children's outside voice!

We had so much fun at The Children's Law Center summer funfest yesterday! Our folks from across the City gathered together in a mercifully shadey and breezy spot at Riverbank State Park for food and games. A well deserved break for am amazing team! With special thanks for Jonelli Borden, Jasmine Florestal and Yolanda A Martindale, LMSW who helped pull it together. Thanks also to board members Elizabeth Childs and Emmanuel Onyeukwu for joining us!

From babies to young adults, youth in court should be seen, heard, and represented. We need #Counsel4Kids to ensure youth rights are protected! #LawDay #NationalFosterCareMonth @NACCchildlaw https://lnkd.in/dQJRTa7p 

We’re #hiring. Know anyone who might be interested?

Congratulations to Louise Feld, Senior Writing and Policy Attorney! Yesterday, Louise was awarded the Kathryn A. McDonald Award from the New York City Bar Association for her outstanding contributions to family law and family court. The award was presented by the Chief Judge of the State of New York Rowan Wilson and the NYC Family Court Administrative Judge Anne-Marie Jolly. We are thrilled for Louise and are very happy to have The Children's Law Center 's important contributions to critical policy discussions celebrated.

We had a special visitor to The Children's Law Center last week. With permission from our clients' parents, our staff Attorney brought her trained puppy, Alfredo, to the office. Our clients experience so much adversity and trauma. We are always looking for ways to reduce the impact of both family conflict and court involvement and Alfredo did the trick! The kids were so excited to spend time with him and his presence helped reduce anxiety about sharing their stories. Children don't need to feel alone and unheard. We are here for them!