Summer Internship Opportunities

Center for Children's Advocacy
Legal Interns
Summer 2009

CCA is a private, non-profit organization affiliated with the University of Connecticut School of Law. Our mission is to promote and protect the legal rights and interests of poor children who are dependent upon the judicial, child welfare, health, mental health, education, and juvenile justice systems for their care.

CCA employs a number of methods to help poor children, including individual representation, class action advocacy, training, and administrative and legislative advocacy. Interdisciplinary approaches contribute immensely to the understanding of children's issues, and CCA is committed to working in partnership with experts and policy analysts to develop appropriate solutions to meet the complex challenges of interlocking systems.

Legal interns will work collaboratively with the attorneys on research projects, individual cases, and systemic advocacy. Interns 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.

Applicants must have 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 15, 2009.

Please email application to: sviolant@kidscounsel.org or mail to:

Summer Intern Position for CCA
Stacey Violante Cote, Esq.
Center for Children's Advocacy
65 Elizabeth Street
Hartford, CT 06105

Internship:
Medical-Legal Partnership Project
Center for Children's Advocacy
Spring & Summer 2009

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.