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The Center for Children's Advocacy (CCA),
as a non-profit organization affiliated with the University of Connecticut
School of Law, was founded in 1997 to protect and promote the rights
and interests of poor children who are dependent upon the judicial,
child welfare, health, education and juvenile justice systems for
their care. The Center's twin missions are to provide holistic legal
services to children in their communities and to improve the quality
of legal representation of children through interdisciplinary models
and training programs.
Center for Children's Advocacy CCA's
projects work with child abuse and neglect, teen legal services,
youth in the juvenile justice system, educational issues. Individual
cases expose systemic problems, and the Center works to remedy these
problems by promoting changes to the policies and practices of state
agencies.
Medical-Legal Partnership The Center's
Medical Legal Partnership Project (MLPP) is collaborative venture
that combines the legal expertise and resources of CCA with the
resources of hospitals and health clinics throughout the Hartford
area.
CCA and the MLPP employ a multidisciplinary
approach to improving children's lives. The MLPP works to ensure
that families' basic needs are met, including safe housing, adequate
income, benefits support, disability advocacy, access to health
care, freedom from violence, and appropriate educational services.
CCA encourages diversity in the workplace
and is an equal opportunity employer.
CCA's Medical-Legal Partnership Project
is a collaborative project that provides on-site legal assistance,
education and training, and policy advocacy to central Connecticut's
pediatric centers. We are looking for one or two energetic and dedicated
law student interns for the spring 2009 semester and for the summer
of 2009.
Applicants must have excellent writing
and legal reasoning skills, and should be familiar with basic aspects
of poverty and public interest law.
Students must have access to transportation
(car), and will be expected to participate in client interviews,
negotiations, litigation and legal research activities. In addition,
students will participate in and assist attorneys on matters at
the MLPP sites at Saint Francis Hospital, Connecticut Children's
Medical Center, Charter Oak Health Center, Community Health Services,
and The Hospital of Central Connecticut.
Students will work for either one or
two law school credits, and will be expected to complete all of
the requirements of the law school's externship program.
More information about the Medical Legal
Partnership Project may be found at the Center for Children's Advocacy
website at http://www.kidscounsel.org/aboutus_programs_mlpp.htm.
Interested candidates should e-mail
a letter of interest and a resume to Jay Sicklick, Deputy Director
and MLPP Project Director at jsicklick@kidscounsel.org.
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