Stay updated with breaking news from Child Representation. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
When kids are in the foster care system, it can sometimes feel like major decisions about their lives are happening without consideration for their input. Lawmakers are looking into a plan to change that, by appointing lawyers to represent the children in many of those cases.
Sen. Lauren Book's measure would create an Office of Child Representation to provide lawyers who will represent children in certain situations.
Crying over the phone for her father? what do you and your team members even say to her? >> it is very challenging to deal with someone so tendered aged so scared in the system. we have a specifically that focuses on child representation and we get necessary training to talk to kids who are tender age, provide very complicated legal information in a very basic way. we do receive a lot of training in order to do this type of work. >> a lot of these families coming over the border are economic migrants looking for a better life for them, for their families. they're fleeing violent crime, death t...