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Martha
Stone, JD
Executive Director
Martha Stone is founder and Executive Director of
the Center for Children's Advocacy. Prior to founding CCA in 1997,
Martha served as Associate Director of Children's Rights, Inc.,
a national organization engaged in foster care litigation throughout
the United States; and for 18 years previous to that, she was Legal
Director of the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union. Martha is responsible
for bringing class action lawsuits resulting in Consent Decrees
involving DCF (Juan F.), CT juvenile detention centers, and access
to community-based mental health services for the juvenile justice
population (Emily J.). She is co-counsel for the plaintiffs in Sheff
v. O'Neill, the Hartford school desegregation case. She is an
Adjunct Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law
,where she teaches a course in child advocacy. Martha is the recipient
of many awards for distinguished service including the Ct. Bar Association
Charles Parker Legal Services Award, Ct. Youth Services Association
Advocacy Committee Award, the Bank of America Local Hero Award,
The Wheeler Clinic Advocacy Award, and the Champion of Children
Award from the Village for Families and Children. She received a
J.D. and LLM from Georgetown University Law Center.
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