The Child Advocacy Clinic is designed to educate students about a range of social change strategies and to encourage critical thinking about the pros and cons of different approaches. It addresses a variety of substantive areas impacting the lives of children, with a focus on child welfare (abuse and neglect, foster care, and adoption), education, and juvenile justice.
Through CAP’s Child Advocacy Clinic, students are placed with non-profit organizations, governmental agencies, juvenile courts, and more, either around the Boston/Cambridge area or around the country. They then come together in a seminar to share their varied experiences, discussing the specific projects and cases in which they are engaged, their placement organization’s larger vision for improving conditions for children and families, and their reflections on the different social change strategies their placements use to effect meaningful change for children. The Child Advocacy Clinic: System-Involved Youth will be held in the fall. The Child Advocacy Clinic: Child Welfare, Education & Juvenile Justice will be held in the winter-spring/spring.
- Fall 2020 Child Advocacy Clinic: System Involved Youth Clinic Description (clinical component)
- Fall 2020 Child Advocacy Clinic: System-Involved Youth Seminar Description (classroom component)
- 2021 Child Advocacy Clinic Winter-Spring option and 2021 Child Advocacy Clinic Spring option (clinical components)
- 2021 Child Advocacy Clinic Seminar Description (classroom component)
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