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"State
Secrecy and Child Deaths in the U.S."
A report by the Children's
Advocacy Institute
and First Star
Full
Report • Press
Release
Apr. 29,
2008
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- Mark Your Calendar for the
next Child
Advocates Roundtable, which will
be held on May
29, 2008 (please note change of date).
Agenda coming soon!
- CAI Releases 2007
Children's Legislative Report Card
(Apr. 24, 2008)
- CAI Issues
White Paper on True Presumptive Eligibility
for Children (Mar. 31, 2008)
- CAI
Honors Outstanding Efforts by Legislators, Legislative
Staff (Mar. 11, 2008)
- Learn more about CAI's
Homeless Youth
Outreach Project.
- Attorneys
New to Dependency Court Practice:
Watch videotaped segments from CAI's 2007 20-hour
MCLE training sessions for attorneys practicing
in Dependency Court for one year or less.
CLICK HERE
to view the segments and
access the handouts.
- CAI
Files Amicus Curiae Brief with U.S. Supreme
Court in Daniels, et al. v. Philip Morris, et
al. (Dec. 28, 2007)
- Foster-Parent
Advocacy Groups Sue the State in Federal Court,
Seeking More Money for Parents Caring for Abused
and Neglected Foster Children (Oct.
3, 2007)
- CAI Announces Winners of 2007
Price Child Health and Welfare Journalism Awards
(Aug. 2007)
- CAI
Report Urges State to Increase
Foster Family Home Rates (May 2007)
- CAI Releases Expanding
Transitional Services for Emancipated Foster
Youth: An Investment in California's Tomorrow
(Jan. 2007)
- Review Foster
Child Fatality Information (Dec.
2006)
- CAI Announces Winners of 2006
Price Child Health and Welfare Journalism Awards
(Oct. 2006)
- Help CAI Expand Transitional Services for
Emancipating Foster Youth:
Foster Youth Survey / Provider
Survey / Help
Name the Program (Aug. 2006)
- CAI Joins Amicus Curiae Brief to Ninth Circuit
in Bonta
v. Katie A. (Aug.
2006)
- CAI Urges Big Five to Increase
Child Welfare Spending (June 2006)
- CAI Urges DMH to Give Children Under Juvenile
Court Jurisdiction
Top Priority
for Prop. 63 Funding
(June 2006)
- San Diego Union-Tribune Publishes OpEd
by CAI Executive Director (May
2006)
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In 1989, Robert C. Fellmeth founded the Children's Advocacy
Institute (CAI) as part of the Center for Public Interest
Law at the University of San Diego School of Law. Staffed
by experienced attorneys and advocates, advised by the
CAI Council for Children, and assisted by USD law student
interns, CAI works to improve the status and well-being
of children in our society by representing their interests
and right to a safe, healthy childhood. In addition to
its academic program, which trains law students to be
effective child advocates, CAI represents children in
the state legislature, in the courts, before administrative
agencies, and through public education programs.
CAI's accomplishments and projects
include the following:
- litigation to preserve $355 million in state education
funding for high-priority preschool child care and
development programs;
- legislation to create Kids' Plates, a personalized
vehicle license plates program whose proceeds are
earmarked for child abuse prevention, child injury
prevention programs, and child care regulation;
- legislation to require children under the age
of 18 to wear a helmet when riding a bicycle;
- litigation to compel a state agency to adopt public
playground safety regulations to prevent child injury;
- legislation which characterizes child support
orders as tax liens, thereby enabling the state
Franchise Tax Board to collect them and enhance
statewide child support collection efforts;
- research and evaluation of a pilot project substituting
a single, interdisciplinary interview of a child
abuse victim for repeated interrogations by multiple
interviewers;
- coordination and leadership of the Child Advocates
Roundtable, a network of 300 statewide and regional
child policy organizations representing over twenty
issue disciplines;
- creation of the Child Advocacy Clinic, a unique
academic opportunity for law students to work on
dependency court cases under the supervision of
an attorney in the public defender's office, or
on a variety of policy projects with a CAI attorney
or other professional staff;
- publication of the California Children's Budget,
a 600-page report analyzing federal and state spending
trends on child-related programs;
- publication of the Children's Regulatory Law
Reporter and the Children's Legislative
Report Card; and
- creation and operation of the Information Clearinghouse
on Children, which works to stimulate accurate and
meaningful discussion of child-related topics by
the media and policymakers.
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