Below is a list of organizations – in Massachusetts and beyond – which have served as Child Advocacy Program (CAP) clinical placement sites since our inception in Fall 2004. Many of these organizations will serve as placement sites in future years; however, not all of them will be offered. This list is intended to give students a sense of the range of placement possibilities.
The Child Advocacy Clinic has two options for fieldwork placements: (1) Spring and (2) Winter/Spring.
- Through the Spring clinical option, students have been placed at the local Massachusetts organizations listed below. For our new fall 2018 clinic, we anticipate that the placements will be largely the same.
- Through the Winter/Spring clinical option, students have been placed at the out-of-state organizations listed below. In the Winter term, students work full-time, on-site at the placement organization. In the Spring, each student returns to Cambridge and continues working remotely for the same organization. (Exception: We have placed a limited number of Winter/Spring students at local organizations; these students work on-site during the Winter and Spring terms.)
Spring Placement Sites
Attorney General’s Office: Child and Youth Protection Unit
Bureau of Special Education Appeals (BSEA) – Mediation
Center for Law and Education (CLE)
Center for Public Representation (CPR)
Children and Family Law Division (CAFL), Committee for Public Counsel Services – Boston Trial Office
Children’s Law Center of Massachusetts (CLC)
Children’s Legal Services, Inc. (CLS)
Citizens for Juvenile Justice (CfJJ)
The Civil Rights Project (CRP) (formerly based at Harvard Univ.)
Department of Elementary & Secondary Education (ESE) Legal Office, Massachusetts
Department of Children and Families (DCF) – Massachusetts
Department of Youth Services (DYS), Massachusetts
District Attorney’s Office (DA’s Office), Child Abuse Unit, Middlesex County
Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD)
Harvard Legal Aid Bureau (HLAB)
Horizons for Homeless Children (HHC)
Salem Juvenile Court & Lynn Juvenile Court – Essex County
Juvenile Court, Middlesex Division with First Justice
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice
Living Legacy Project, The WilmerHale Legal Services Center (LSC) of Harvard Law School
Massachusetts Advocates for Children (MAC)
Massachusetts Law Reform Institute (MLRI)
Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston (MLP)
Middlesex County Juvenile Court – Cambridge
Office of the Child Advocate (OCA)
Office of Boston City Councilor John Connolly
Office of Senator Karen Spilka, Then Chair of the Joint Committee on Children and Families
Permanency Mediation Project, The WilmerHale Legal Services Center (LSC) of Harvard Law School
Strategies for Children / Early Education for All (SfC / EEA)
Suffolk County Juvenile Court – Boston
Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative (TLPI)
Youth Advocacy Division (YAD), Juvenile Appeals, Committee for Public Counsel Services
Youth Advocacy Division (YAD), Roxbury Trial Office, Committee for Public Counsel Services
Wellness Court Placement with the Juvenile Court, Middlesex Division
Winter/Spring Placement Sites
Achievement First, New York City, New York
Advocates for Children of New York, New York City, New York
Center for Children’s Law and Policy – Washington D.C.
Children’s Defense Fund-California – Oakland, California
ChildSHARE – Los Angeles, California
Children’s Law Center of California – Los Angeles, California
Children’s Rights, Inc. – New York City, New York
Committee on Expediting Dependency/Termination Appeals – Seattle, Washington
Community Activism Law Alliance – Chicago, Illinois
Delta Directions Consortium – Clarksdale, Mississippi
Department of Elementary & Secondary Education (ESE) Legal Office, Massachusetts – Boston, MA
District Attorney’s Office (DA’s Office), Child Protection Unit, Family Protection & Sexual Assault Bureau, Suffolk County – Boston, Massachusetts
Equal Justice Initiative – Montgomery, Alabama
Foster Care Review, Miami, Florida
Fostering Media Connections – San Francisco, California
Juvenile Law Center – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lawyers For Children – New York City, New York
Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights (LCCR) – New Orleans, LA
Legal Action Center – New York City, New York
Legal Services for Children – San Francisco, California
Massachusetts Law Reform Institute – Boston, MA
Miami Dade County Circuit Court, Juvenile Division – Miami, Florida
National Center for Youth Law – Oakland, California
National Commission for Protection of Child Rights – New Delhi, India
National Prosecuting Authority of South Africa, Sexual Offenses & Community Affairs Unit – South Africa
Office of Mayor Julián Castro, City of San Antonio – San Antonio, Texas
Public Advocates Inc. – San Francisco, California
Public Counsel, Los Angeles, California
South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project – Harlingen, Texas
St. Jude’s Ranch for Children – Boulder City, Nevada
Visayan Forum Foundation – Philippines
Youth Advocacy Center – New York City, New York
Youth Law Center – San Francisco, California