Celebrating 30 Years of Child and Family Advocacy

Join us April 20 for a conference honoring the work of the Child Advocacy, Family Advocacy, and Prisoners and Families clinics over the past three decades, and examining the issues, themes, and challenges facing the field.

This conference is by invitation only; photo id is required at check-in.

“Within Columbia Law School’s celebrated clinical program, family advocacy holds a special distinction: the Child Advocacy Clinic and its ‘spin-offs,’ the Family Advocacy Clinic and the Prisoners and Families Clinic, are Columbia’s oldest continuous clinical offerings, marking 30 years in 2012. The family law clinics have evolved over the course of three decades to address a shifting set of unmet needs; a combination of legislative issues and changing priorities in services have typically been at the core of this evolution.” Read the full article in Columbia Law School Magazine