News, Updates and Releases

News and Press from Center for Children's Advocacy

  • Center Announces Award Winners
    CT Post
    January 8, 2012

  • School Arrests Bring New Scrutiny, Reforms
    New Haven Independent
    December 14, 2011


  • CCA Deputy Director Jay Sicklick Named Health Care Hero by HBJ
    December 13, 2011
    Center for Children's Advocacy


  • Truancy Intervention: National Models and Connecticut Initiatives
    December 2011
    Center for Children's Advocacy


  • Center for Children's Advocacy Annual Report
    Who Will Speak for Me?
    November, 2011

  • Deadline Looms for Hartford Schools Desegregation
    November 21, 2011
    CT Mirror


  • Another Coach Accused of the Unimaginable
    November 19, 2011
    Hartford Courant


  • Critics Say School Choice Lottery is Poorly Managed
    November 16, 2011
    Hartford Courant
  • Backers Say Charter Schools Could Help State Reach Integration Goals
    October 28, 2011
    CT Mirror

  • State to Hartford Schools: Fix Special Ed Services
    October 19, 2011
    Hartford Courant


  • Alternative Program Makes Changes
    October, 2011
    The Hour
  • CCA Deputy Director Jay Sicklick Named Finalist for Hartford Business Journal
    Health Care Heroes Award

    October 26, 2011
    Center for Children's Advocacy

  • Controversial Ads Likely to Resume in Hartford
    October 17, 2011
    CT Mirror

  • Odds of Getting Into a Magnet School
    October 17, 2011
    CT Mirror

  • State Says Hartford Schools Fail Students with Learning Disabilities
    August 26, 2011
    Hartford Courant

  • State Intervenes in Hartford's Treatment of Students with Disabilities
    August 26, 2011
    CT Mirror

  • Advocates Fear Memo Means Loss of Services for Young Adults
    August 19, 2011
    CT Mirror

  • DCF To Reduce Use of Group Care for Children
    August 5, 2011
    CT Mirror

  • Prisons Try To Span Learning Gap
    August 4, 2011
    New Haven Independent

  • June 2011 Newsletter
    Phenomenal Legislative Success!
    Center for Children's Advocacy

  • DCF under Katz: Potential, but little progress
    June 23, 2011
    CT Mirror

  • Infant Dies, New DCF Commissioner Tested
    June 15, 2011
    CT Mirror

  • Education vs. Incarceration: The Real Cost of Failing Our Kids
    May 2011
    CPTV Website

  • Ads Anger Sheff Lawyer
    April 29, 2011
    CT Mirror

  • School Ad Campaign Raises Eyebrows
    Hartford School System Discouraging Equal Educational Opportunity

    April 29, 2011
    Hartford Courant

  • CCA Attorney Kathryn Meyer: Should 5 Year Old Client be Suspended from School?
    March 22, 2011
    Daily Stamford

  • National Center for Medical Legal Partnership Appoints Advisory Council
    March 22, 2011
    Center for Children's Advocacy

  • New Video about the Center's Work for Connecticut's Children and Youth

  • Children Involved in Prostitution Must be Referred to DCF
    March 11, 2011
    CT Mirror

  • KidsCounsel Newsletter
    March 2011
    CCA Legislative Initiatives
    Leo - A Troubling Story
    "Sunshine" Event Photos

  • Spring for Kids! Center for Children's Advocacy Awards Reception
    April 28, 2011

  • DCF Must Place Young Children In Family Care
    March 6, 2011

    Hartford Courant

  • Sarah Eagan Named “40 Under 40”...New Generation of Leaders
    Connecticut Magazine
    March 2011

  • Sunshine in February
    February 10, 2011 at Trump Parc, Stamford
    CCA Champion of Children Awards Reception Event Photos

  • Malloy taking another route to reach desegration goal
    Feb 17, 2011
    CT Mirror

  • CCA Honors Kids in Crisis and The Tow Foundation with 2011
    Champion of Children Awards

    Stamford Advocate
    Feb 13, 2011

  • Aetna Grant to CCA Promotes Racial and Ethnic Health Care Equity
    Center for Children's Advocacy

  • Fighting to Keep DCF from Sending Children Out of State
    Hartford Courant
    Jan 16, 2011

  • "Do They Miss Me?"
    Hartford Courant
    Jan 16, 2011

  • CCA Exec. Dir. Appointed to DCF Commissioner's Transition Team
    DCF Press Release
    Jan 14, 2011

  • CCA announces winners of Connecticut Champion of Children Awards
    January 10, 2011
    Center for Children's Advocacy

  • Why Aren’t There Enough Foster Homes?
    New Haven Advocate
    January 5, 2011

  • State Safer With Fewer Children Locked Up
    Hartford Courant
    December 16 2010

  • Bioethics Enrich
    Medical-Legal Collaborations

    Mental Health & Illness
    Winter 2010

  • Officials: Efforts to reduce racial isolation need overhaul
    CTMirror.com
    December 8, 2010

  • Lack of Progress Disappoints Sheff Plaintiffs
    Hartford Courant
    December 8, 2010

  • Homeless Youths Need Support
    Hartford Courant
    December 4, 2010

  • Supreme Court Justice Joette Katz To Lead DCF
    CTMirror.com
    November 22, 2010

  • DCF commissioner appointment a 'high priority' for Malloy transition team
    CTMirror.com
    November 22, 2010

  • State Auditors Flag Problems at DCF
    CTMirror.com
    November 12, 2010

  • CCA Attorney Bonnie Roswig
    Chosen CT Health Foundation
    Leadership Fellow

  • October KidsCounsel News

  • CCA Annual Report 2010
    Who will speak for me?

  • DCF Still Failing Connecticut's Children
    Hartford Courant
    September 28, 2010

  • DCF: Are the Problems Solved
    CTMirror.com
    September 22, 2010

  • DCF Fed Oversight
    Middletown Press

    August 28, 2010

  • Supreme Court Removes DCF Legal Stall Tactic
    Hartford Advocate

    August 12, 2010

  • Changing the Juvenile Justice System
    UConn Today

    August 3, 2010

  • New Program Keeping Troubled Youth out of Judicial System
    Connecticut Post
    July 15, 2010

  • 25 Years of Mastery Tests Helped Shape State’s Public Education
    CTMirror.com
    July 15, 2010

  • State Orders City to Overhaul, Move Transitional Learning Academy
    Hartford Courant
    June 3, 2010

    • CCA Press Release

  • Creating Awareness of Mental Health Services for Children and Youth
    WTNH Channel 8
    May 19, 2010

  • Tapas & Tastings Fundraiser a Huge Success!
    Click for photos...

  • Utility Clinic: A Little Help
    Hartford Courant

    April 29, 2010

  • Rethink Dangerous Utility Shutoffs
    Hartford Courant

    April 25, 2010

  • A Day after Mismanagement Charges, DCF Seeks End of Court Oversight
    CTMirror.com
    April 14, 2010

  • State Must Boost Options to Meet Desegregation Goals
    Hartford Courant

    April 4, 2010

  • CCA Bill to Reduce High School Pushout
    Hartford Courant

    March 9, 2010

  • Teen Enrollment in Adult Ed Prompts Call for Legislation
    CTMirror.com
    March 9, 2010

  • Advocates Rally For Less Teens in Adult Ed
    Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network

    March 8, 2010

  • Charter Schools: A Debate over Integration and Education
    Robert Frahm, CTMirror.com

    February 24, 2010

  • Lawmakers Consider Barring Utility Shutoff to Homes with Infants
    Journal Inquirer
    February 24, 2010

  • Helen Ubinas: 2550 Fails Neediest Students
    Hartford Courant
    February 11, 2010

  • Trial Program to Allow Public Access to Certain Juvenile Court Proceedings
    Hartford Courant
    February 9, 2010

  • Program to Allow Public at Previously Closed Juvenile Trials
    The Middletown Press
    February 8, 2010

  • Open Courts Pilot Begins Feb 16
    The Day
    February 4, 2010

  • Hartford Transitional Academy Accused Of Failing Its Students
    Hartford Courant
    February 3, 2010

  • School Choice Most Efficient Way to Desegregate
    CT Mirror
    February 2, 2010

  • CCA and GHLA File Complaint with State Department of Education on Behalf of Hartford Special Education Students at 2550 Main Street Academy
    January 29, 2010

  • CCA and CLS Close Illegal Bridgeport Night School
    Connecticut Post
    January 24, 2010

  • Issues of Access to Higher Education for Undocumented Teens
    Where We Live, WNPR Connecticut
    January 12, 2010
    CCA Attorney Josh Michtom and three Connecticut teens discuss the problems of access to higher education for undocumented youth.

  • Student Count in Question Sheff Plaintiffs File Motion for Special Master
    Hartford Courant
    December 12, 2009

  • State Looks To 'Fill Gap' In Juvenile Justice
    Connecticut Law Tribune
    December 07, 2009

  • State Says Hartford Schools Making Progress On Desegregation Sheff Plaintiffs Reviewing State Numbers
    Hartford Courant

    November 19, 2009

  • Funding Cuts Sentence Kids to Separation
    Sarah Eagan, Hartford Courant Editorial
    September 13, 2009

  • Voluntary Services: Slamming the Door on At-Risk Youth and Families
    Martha Stone, Hartford Courant Editorial
    July 1, 2009

  • Rell Signs Bill for Madoff Schemers at CCA Offices
    WTNH web article

    June 29, 2009

  • Blackboard Justice Teen Style Law & Order in Bridgeport Classrooms
    Connecticut Magazine
    July, 2009

  • Still Waiting for Equality in Schools
    Connecticut Post
    May 29, 2009

  • Teen Justice Court Visits Yale Law School
    Yale University Press
    May 15, 2009

  • Sheff v O'Neill
    Hartford Courant
    April 27, 2009

  • Sheff Proponents Encouraged by Budget Proposals
    Hartford Courant
    April 3, 2009

  • Insight and Passion Change Culture & Practice
    Saint Francis Hospital Magazine
    April, 2009

  • Sheff Progress threatened by Governor's budget
    Hartford Courant Commentary by Martha Stone and Wesley Horton
    March 29, 2009

  • School Resource Officers - Lawmakers Pitch Bills in Response to ACLU
    Waterbury Republican-American
    March 29, 2009

  • Five-Year Plan For Desegregating Hartford-Area Schools Presented
    Hartford Courant
    January 7, 2009

  • Madoff Scandal Spreads in Connecticut
    Capital Watch
    December 21, 2008

  • Making Court the Last Resort
    Vera Institute of Justice
    A New Focus for Supporting Families in Crisis, Sara Mogulescu and Gaspar Caro
    December 2008

  • CCA Reaches Out For Help
    Hartford Courant
    November 20, 2008

  • ACLU Report Hard Lessons: School Resource Officer Programs and School Based Arrests in Three Connecticut Towns
    Hartford Courant
    November 16, 2008

  • United Way Awards $10,000 to CCA
    New Haven Register
    August 9, 2008

  • New Project Helps Hartford's Immigrants and Refugees
    Hartford Courant
    June 25, 2008

  • Sheff Needs a Captain
    Hartford Courant
    April 9, 2008

  • New Settlement in Sheff Lawsuit
    Hartford Courant
    April 5, 2008

  • 'State Has Been Shortsighted'
    CT Law Tribune
    February 18, 2008

  • Bill Would Limit School Changes For Foster Children
    Hartford Courant
    February 28, 2008

  • For Students' Problems, Some Legal Advice
    New York Times
    February 17, 2008

  • CCA & Hospital of Central Connecticut Receive Grant to Expand MLPP
    Hospital of Central Connecticut
    February 14, 2008

  • Citation Against DCF Reversed By Court
    Hartford Courant
    December 7, 2007

  • Money Should Follow City Kids To Suburbs
    Hartford Courant
    November 7, 2007

  • Changing the Judiciary's Relaltionship with a Community, One Child at a Time
    ABA Judges' Journal (Martha Stone and Emily Breon)
    Summer 2007

  • Foster Care Population: Minority Kids In Majority
    Hartford Courant
    August 13, 2007

  • State Revising Its Response To Sheff
    Hartford Courant
    June 6, 2007

  • Complaint: Immigrants Ill-Served In City Schools
    Hartford Courant
    May 31, 2007

  • Justice for Troubled Teens
    Hartford Courant
    May 31, 2007

  • A Teenage Girl Waits In A Shelter
    Hartford Courant
    May 29, 2007

  • The Truancy Epidemic: Officials In City Struggle To Curb Chronic Absenteeism
    Hartford Courant
    May 14, 2007

  • Turning 18, And Needing Our Help
    Hartford Courant
    May 5, 2007

  • New Option For Troubled Kids
    Hartford Courant
    March 5, 2007

  • A Push To Open Juvenile Courts
    Hartford Courant
    January 18, 2007

  • Seeking Help For Teen Girls In Prison
    Hartford Courant
    January 1, 2007

  • A Child's Day
    US Census Report
    Released Jan 2007

  • Grim Graduation Data Pleases Board
    Hartford Courant
    December 20, 2006

  • With Every Passing Day
    Hartford Courant
    December 10, 2006

  • Panel: Despite Sheff v. O’Neill, school segregation has not eased
    UCONN Advance Online
    November 28, 2006

  • For Local Heroes, A Day To Take A Bow
    Hartford Courant
    November 10, 2006

  • School of Law Graduates Instrumental in Creating National Center for Medical-Legal Collaboration
    Northeastern Law Magazine
    Summer, 2006

  • A Decade of Half Measures
    Hartford Courant
    July 23, 2006

  • Special Homes Trouble State
    Hartford Courant
    July 23, 2006

  • Open Court For Children's Sake
    Hartford Courant
    June 27, 2006

  • Youth-Punishment Bills Face Committee Votes
    Hartford Courant
    March 24, 2006

  • Making Courts Work for Kids
    CT Law Tribune
    March 6, 2006

  • Speed Up Adoptions
    Hartford Courant
    Editorial
    March 1, 2006

  • Bill Would Speed Adoption Process
    Hartford Courant
    February 21, 2006

  • Psychiatric Hospital `In A State Of Crisis'
    Hartford Courant
    February 17, 2006

  • A Class Struggle - City Inclusion Effort Brings Serious Problems
    Hartford Courant
    February 5, 2006

  • Doctors And Lawyers Work Together To Solve Problems That Harm Health
    Hartford Courant
    October 5, 2006

  • "Our Commitment to Youth"
    Clearinghouse Review
    July-August 2005


  • Legislation Will Improve Representation for Abused and Neglected Children
    Connecticut Lawyer
    August/September 2005

  • Questions Arise On Juvenile Facility
    Hartford Courant
    August 11, 2005

  • Study Says Connecticut Has Highest Rate of Date Violence
    Waterbury Republican-American
    July 28, 2005

  • Teen's Prison Suicide Draws Outrage: As Probes Begin, Advocates Contend Again: Youths Don't Belong In Adult System
    Hartford Courant
    July 26, 2005

  • Our Broken Home
    The Hartford Courant, Northeast Magazine
    Nov 23, 2003