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To order publications or videos from the Center
for Children's Advocacy, please purchase
online or call us at (860) 570-5327.
Adolescent Health Care: The Legal Rights of Teens
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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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Immigration Law in the Medical Setting
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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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Who Will Speak for Me?
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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.
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I Will Speak Up for Myself: Your Legal Rights in
Foster Care
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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.
*Book temporarily
out of print – click
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I Will Speak Up for Myself: Your Legal Rights in
Shelters, Group Homes, STAR Homes, or Residential Treatment Facilities
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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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Teen Legal Rights Brochures
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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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Detention: What are My Rights?
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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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Life After Lockup: What's Up with School? (Your
Legal Rights when You Come Back to the Community)
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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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Report on Truancy: A Closer Look
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A closer look at the link between unmet educational
needs and truancy.
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Las Niñas Silenciadas: Broken Links between Language,
Culture and Learning
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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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Medical-Legal Information for Pediatric Providers
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