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Stacey
Violante Cote, JD, MSW
Director, Teen Legal Advocacy Clinic
Principal Attorney, Immigrants and Refugees: New Arrivals Advocacy
Project
Stacey has been an attorney at the Center for the
past 8 years and Director of the Center’s Teen Legal Advocacy Clinic
for the past 6 years. She works with teens in the Greater Hartford
area including Hartford public school students and youth in the
care of the Department of Children and Families. She recently took
on additional responsibilities as principal attorney on the Center's
Immigrants and Refugees: New Arrivals Advocacy Project, helping
Hartford families access appropriate education and healthcare services
for their children.
Hartford has one of the highest drop-out rates in
the State. The Teen Legal Advocacy Clinic provides legal advocacy
to remove barriers that prevent youth from completing high school,
addressing civil legal issues such as the educational rights of
homeless students, improper denials of state and federal benefits
programs, educational advocacy, the rights of victims of teen dating
violence, the rights of teens in the care of the DCF, the legal
rights of pregnant/parenting students and abuse/neglect. Clinic
attorneys also have offices in Bridgeport's Harding High School,
and work with youth in shelters throughout the state.
Stacey graduated from UCONN School of Law in 2001
and UCONN School of Social Work in 2000. She was awarded the New
Leaders of the Law recognition by the Connecticut Law Tribune in
2002 and was named one of the University of Connecticut’s “40 Under
40 Outstanding Graduates.”
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Stacey Violante Cote
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