The CAP 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 the CAP Clinic, students are placed with non-profit organizations, governmental agencies, juvenile courts, and more, either around the Boston/Cambridge area (fall and spring option) or around the country/world (winter-spring option). 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 2018 Child Advocacy Clinic: System-Involved Youth Clinic Description (clinical component)
- Fall 2018 Child Advocacy Clinic: System-Involved Youth Seminar Description (classroom component)
- 2019 CAP Clinic Winter-Spring option and 2019 CAP Clinic Spring option (clinical components)
- 2019 CAP Clinic Seminar Description (classroom component)
- 2017-2018 CAP Clinic Placements
- Master List of CAP Clinic Placements
- Child Advocacy Clinic Frequently Asked Questions