The Center for Children's Advocacy's Medical-Legal Partnership Project publishes this important book to answer the legal questions pediatric providers encounter when caring for adolescent patients. The book includes a list of important questions, easy-to-understand answers regarding the law in each instance, and a complete index of state statutes that affect adolescent health care in Connecticut.

Table of Contents:

Medical Conditions & Treatments
Reproductive Healthcare
Emancipation
HUSKY Health Insurance
Access to Medical Records
Privacy Rights
School Based Health Clinics
Privileged Communications
Mandated Reporting
Statutory Rape
Advanced Directives and Living Wills
Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
Connecticut Law on Bullying
Immigrants and Refugees: Access to Benefits
Utility Shutoff: Protecting Children and Families References/Resources

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New Medical Legal Partnership Project publication assists healthcare providers working with the state's immigrant and refugee population. This is an important guide to legal issues regarding healthcare and benefits eligibility, and includes case scenarios/legal dilemmas that are often encountered by healthcare providers.

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An important short film from the Center for Children's Advocacy, "Who Will Speak for Me?" represents the children caught in the child protection system. The video asks children to tell us how we might best provide legal representation to them, and presents their views and suggestions to enable us to better the level of services we provide. This video is an important learning tool for all attorneys who represent children, and is available with printed resource materials. (2001).

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This legal rights package includes a question and answer legal rights book and DVD that answer questions for children and youth in foster care. The DVD interviews youth in foster care who speak up about how they have advocated for themselves to get the services and support they need: access to medical care, visits with family, services they are entitled to while in the care of the Department of Children in Families.

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This important package teaches homeless youth to advocate for themselves to get the services and support they need. The package includes a question and answer legal rights book and a DVD entitled "I Will Speak Up for Myself," which features youth who have been in the care of the Department of Children and Families. They provide information and self-advocacy training for homeless youth who are currently in these temporary living situations.

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The Center for Children's Advocacy's Teen Legal Advocacy Clinic publishes this series of legal rights brochures for teens. Written in an easy-to-understand question and answer format, the brochures provide answers to frequently asked questions on topics including Emancipation, Legal Rights in DCF Care, Homelessness, Immigration, Child Support, Education and Special Education, Teen Dating Violence, Confidential Health Care. The series is available as a set, or you may order additional quantities of one or more topics.

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For youth in Juvenile Detention, this question and answer book outlines their legal rights and the responsibilities of the Detention Center and others to keep them safe and secure. Youth in lockup often think they have no rights. This important book helps them understand their rights and learn how to advocate for themselves. Updated June, 2011.

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Question and Answer book on the legal rights of youth returning to school and the community from CJTS, Juvenile Detention or Residential Placement. These youth are often dealing with Parole and Probation Officers, DCF, Public Defenders and School Officials. This important book helps them understand their legal rights and what they can do to participate in the decisions that affect them.

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A closer look at the link between unmet educational needs and truancy.

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Second in the series of CCA's truancy studies, this report focuses on Latinas and the obstacles to school achievement that play a critical role in truant behavior. Report includes proactive strategies to support the educational success of this population.

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