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CCA is an equal opportunity employer.
CCA is an equal opportunity employer.
Note: Center for Children's Advocacy is an
Equal Opportunity Employer. Women, people of color, gays and lesbians,
transgender individuals, veterans and people with disabilities are
encouraged to apply.
Year-long course for 2nd and 3rd year law students,
available to 6 students each year.
Summer Internship: available to 3 students
each summer.
Externship: Medical-Legal Partnership Project,
available to one student each semester.
Summer Law Interns
The Center for Children's Advocacy (CCA) and the Medical
Legal Partnership Project (MLPP) are accepting applications for
full-time legal interns for the summer of 2008. Please see descriptions
below:
CCA is a non-profit organization affiliated with the
University of Connecticut School of Law whose mission is to promote
and protect the legal rights and interests of poor children dependent
upon the judicial, child welfare, health, mental health, education,
and juvenile justice systems for their care. CCA employs a number
of methods to achieve its purposes including individual representation,
class action advocacy, training, and administrative and legislative
advocacy. Because of its recognition that interdisciplinary approaches
contribute immensely to the understanding of children's issues,
CAA is committed to working in partnership with experts and policy
analysts to develop appropriate solutions to meet the complex challenges
of these interlocking systems. For more information about CCA, please
see the rest of our website.
MLPP is a unique, collaborative venture that combines
the expertise and resources of CAA with the Connecticut Children's
Medical Center, the only freestanding children's hospital in Connecticut,
and St. Francis Care's Pediatric Services. MLPP also provides services
through community health clinics throughout the city of Hartford.
MLPP employs a multidisciplinary approach to improving child health
by ensuring that families' basic needs are met, including safe housing,
adequate income, benefits support, disability advocacy, access to
health care, freedom from violence, and appropriate education services.
For more information on the MLPP, please visit the following websites:
http://www.ccmckids.org/mlpp
or http://www.kidscounsel.org/aboutus_programs_mlpp.htm.
The intern for CCA will work collaboratively with
the attorneys on research projects, individual cases, and systemic
advocacy. The legal intern must be willing to work on issues related
to improving outcomes for children in the child welfare, education,
and juvenile justice systems. Background in these areas, either
through experience and or course work, is preferred but not required.
The intern for MLPP will work collaboratively with
both the project director and the staff attorney on individual advocacy,
training preparation and presentation, and systemic policy advocacy.
The legal intern must possess a willingness to work on issues related
to children's health and to improve the health outcomes for low-income
children in the community. Experience in a health care setting is
preferred, but not required.
Students applying for either CCA or MLPP must possess
superior research and writing skills and good interpersonal skills.
Applications must include a cover letter and a resume, and must
be received no later than February 17, 2008.
Please send applications to:
Summer Intern Position for CCA
Jay E. Sicklick. Esq.
Center for Children's Advocacy, Inc.
UCONN School of Law
65 Elizabeth Street
Hartford, CT 06105
jsicklick@kidscounsel.org
Summer Intern Position for MLPP
Jay E. Sicklick. Esq.
Center for Children's Advocacy, Inc.
UCONN School of Law
65 Elizabeth Street
Hartford, CT 06105
jsicklick@kidscounsel.org
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