We hope that your 2017 is off to a wonderful start! 

We'd like to thank you for your continued membership, involvement, and support in 2016.

As we move into 2017 and begin another remarkable year of strengthening legal advocacy for children and families, we want you right there with us!

Child Welfare Law and Practice: Representing Children, Parents, and State Agencies in Abuse, Neglect, and Dependency Cases (AKA The Red Book) is now in its 3rd edition and available in soft and hard cover versions.

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The New York Times
As opioid abuse rises, so does the number of children in foster care.

The Chronicle of Social Change
San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center released "The Economics of Child Abuse: A Study of San Francisco" last week highlighting the public cost of child abuse over a child's lifetime.

The Chronicle of Social Change
Proposals by Congress and President-elect to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — including the Medicaid expansion — to turn Medicaid into a block grant, and to cut resources, all can sound very abstract to social workers and policymakers coping with the day-to-day tragedies and crises of child welfare. But should Congress make good on any of these threats — which took a step forward with a Senate vote on Thursday — the dangers are very real to abused and neglected children, their birth, adoptive, and foster parents, as well as state agencies and providers.

NPR
Last Wednesday, SCOTUS heard arguments on whether federal law requires public schools to provide more than the bare minimum in special services for children with disabilities.

Child Trends
Each year, roughly 6 million students with disabilities, ages 6 to 21, receive services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Although special education is a source of critical services and supports for these students, students of color with disabilities still face a number of obstacles impeding their ability to succeed in school.

Reno Gazette-Journal
Victims of child sex trafficking are one of the most marginalized populations in the justice system. Every year, hundreds of child sexual assault victims run the risk of being arrested, locked up, and prosecuted because they are commercially sexually exploited, and forced into prostitution.

Damon Gannett
Gannett Law Firm
Billings, MT

Tracy Maguire
Bettenberg, Sharshel & Maguire, LLC
Centennial, CO

Ranee Sharshel
Bettenberg, Sharshel & Maguire, LLC
Centennial, CO