News, Updates and Releases

News and Press from Center for Children's Advocacy

• 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!
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• 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