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Adolescent Health Care: The Legal Rights of Teens
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.
I Will Speak Up for Myself: Your Legal Rights in
Foster Care
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.
I Will Speak Up for Myself: Your Legal Rights in
Shelters, Group Homes, STAR Homes, or Residential Treatment Facilities
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.
Teen Legal Rights Brochures
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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