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.

$10.00 Book
     
         
         

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.

$20.00 Book & DVD Package
     
         
$10.00 Book Only
   
 
         
         

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.

$20.00 Book & DVD Package
     
         
$10.00 Book Only
   
 
         
         

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.

$10.00 Complete Set