Sentences with phrase «family justice programs»

Topics addressed in the study include participants» views of and experiences with: court - attached family justice programs; hearing the views of children; issues in custody and access disputes; issues in disputes about child support and spousal support; family violence; unified family courts; and, limited scope legal services in family law disputes.

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«This is why it is so important, especially now, to ensure funding for programs like the Vera Institute of Justice's New York Immigrant Family Unity Project so that immigrants facing deportation have a fair day in court.

DSS includes units such as Medicaid, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families («TANF»), the Home Energy Assistance Program («HEAP»), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program («SNAP»), Child and Adult Protective Services, and Juvenile Justice Services.

And he added that the city is spending $ 31 million on Close to Home, a juvenile justice program that places city youth whom family courts determine need a period of out - of - home placement in residential programs closer to their families and communities — a program that used to be funded by the state.

«In the Senate, I want to fight for public safety and criminal justice reform, education programs, affordable housing, increased access to mental health care, economic development and opportunities, and social service reforms, especially as they affect middle class families and the working poor,» he said in a statement.

The DA will continue to support the local Drug Treatment Courts and the Veterans» Court in Buffalo, which operate within the criminal justice system to engage low - level non-violent offenders in long - term treatment programs and to thereby return them successfully as contributing members of their families and the community.

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

Cuomo has since emphasized issues friendly to the liberal base of the party, such as ushering through a paid - family leave program, juvenile justice reform and a $ 15 minimum wage.

The Institute for Justice, the Washington - based legal - advocacy group that helped defend the Cleveland program, filed suit Sept. 18 in the Cumberland County Superior Court in Portland, Maine, on behalf of six families from three towns in the state.

Justice Antonin Scalia was particularly vexed by the idea that well - heeled families might game the system to get reimbursed for private school tuition when they never had any intention of using a public school regardless of the quality of the program.

«We couldn't have asked for a stronger opinion to defend on appeal,» said Clint Bolick, the litigation director of the Washington - based Institute for Justice, which represents a group of low - income Milwaukee families who could receive vouchers under the expanded program.

► Improved educational programs, opportunities, and outcomes for students from low - income families, students of color, students with disabilities, English Language Learners, students living in temporary housing, LGBTQ students, and students involved in the child welfare or the juvenile or criminal justice systems.

The U.S. Department of Justice tried to use a 40 year old desegregation case to undermine a program that's designed to empower low - income families with children trapped in failing schools a pathway to a higher quality education.»

A huge victory for Louisiana families as the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled against the U.S. Department of Justice's attempt to regulate and undermine the state's private school choice program, the Louisiana Scholarship Pprogram, the Louisiana Scholarship ProgramProgram.

An end to the «School - to - Prison Pipeline» and the promotion of alternatives such as restorative justice programs, wrap - around services including an adequate guidance and social work staff; an end to racial profiling and Stop and Frisk; and a return to community schools as centers that provide medical care, skills training, and tutoring, with social workers and counselors for students» families and the community.

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The Institute for Justice successfully intervened in the case in December and argued that the case should be filed first in the state's trial court so our clients — five scholarship - eligible families — would have the opportunity to be heard fully with regard to the two programs» merits.

Because the direct and intended beneficiaries of the program are the families it empowers to make educational choices, the Institute for Justice (IJ) teamed with two parents who applied for scholarships.

Kyle Serrette Director of Education Justice Campaigns Center for Popular Democracy Shital C. Shah Assistant Director, Education Issues American Federation of Teachers Bela Shah Spooner Program Manager, Afterschool Initiatives Institute for Youth, Education, and Families National League of Cities Joann Weeks Associate Director Netter Center for Community Partnerships University of Pennsylvania Ira Harkavy Chair Emeritus Associate Vice President and Director Netter Center for Community Partnerships University of Pennsylvania

A study released in November by Harvard Law School's Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice took a look at eight major inter-district integration programs across the country and concluded that Choice is Yours had «perhaps the most impressive system of outreach for students and families crossing school district boundaries — as well as racial, social - class and cultural boundaries.»

The FHA began developing a loan defect taxonomy several years ago in response to the False Claims Act litigation the Justice Department filed against FHA lenders, which resulted in large fines and prompted many banks to exit the FHA single - family mortgage program.

The founder and director of the Foster Dog Alliance, a low - cost program designed to help foster families with training and behavioral issues to make their foster dogs more adoptable, Sarah also volunteers for the Lost Dog & Cat Rescue Foundation's Restorative Justice Pprogram designed to help foster families with training and behavioral issues to make their foster dogs more adoptable, Sarah also volunteers for the Lost Dog & Cat Rescue Foundation's Restorative Justice ProgramProgram.

Community partnerships and programs will include the continuation of a multi-year engagement with the Museum of Impact, the world's first mobile social justice museum; collaboration with King School Museum of Contemporary Art; establishment of an interdisciplinary library that invites artists, writers, musicians, educators, and activists to contribute all types of media; a free lecture by Thomas; educator workshops; curatorial conversations; Miller Family Free Day, and Portland Public School collaborations.

Establish environmental health protection, resiliency planning, and recovery programs aimed specifically at protecting the most vulnerable populations, including environmental justice communities, persons with preexisting medical conditions, and persons without the financial resources to fully protect themselves and the health of their families.

The site, at vetsprobono.org, was launched this week by The Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Program, a national charity that provides free legal counsel in federal matters to veterans and their families, and Pro Bono Net, a national non-profit dedicated to increasing access to justice for the disadvantaged.

The research report suggests that a working group be established, with representation from family law practitioners, mediators and arbitrators, judges, and representatives from Alberta Justice and court administration, to develop a pilot early neutral evaluation program for use in family law disputes.

Justice Bonkalo's report (discussed in an earlier column) had this to say about family law programs at Ontario's student legal clinics:

A program of lawyer supervision would have no impact on the access to justice crisis in family law, she wrote, adding that «only licensed and independent paralegals can offer meaningful competition to lawyers.»

Together, the Council and its social justice collaboration partner, the Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice, oversee program committees working on Criminal Justice Reform, Access to Justice, Child Support and Family Law Reform, and Immigration Court justice collaboration partner, the Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice, oversee program committees working on Criminal Justice Reform, Access to Justice, Child Support and Family Law Reform, and Immigration Court Justice, oversee program committees working on Criminal Justice Reform, Access to Justice, Child Support and Family Law Reform, and Immigration Court Justice Reform, Access to Justice, Child Support and Family Law Reform, and Immigration Court Justice, Child Support and Family Law Reform, and Immigration Court Reform.

The National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA) established this website to help civil legal aid programs and other equal justice advocates find additional funding to support their efforts to provide legal aid to families and individuals.

Justice Bonkalo recommended that «The Ministry of the Attorney General and LAO should ensure continued funding to enable student programs like Pro Bono Students Canada's Family Law Project and the student legal aid services societies to continue to operate and possibly even expand.»

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Justice Minister Ross Landry officially launched the new website on July 17, during the Federation of Law Societies National Family Law Program in Halifax.

Last summer, the Washington State Bar Association held its first round of exams in a new Limited License Legal Technician program (LLLT) aimed at bridging the access to justice gap by allowing non-lawyers to provide legal advice and assistance in limited areas, like domestic relations / family law.

We hope and believe that sensible and dedicated members of the Ontario Family Bar can and will get behind this proposal, make sure that the new licensing training program is as good as it can possibly be, and work alongside family paralegals to enhance Access to Justice for OntaFamily Bar can and will get behind this proposal, make sure that the new licensing training program is as good as it can possibly be, and work alongside family paralegals to enhance Access to Justice for Ontafamily paralegals to enhance Access to Justice for Ontarians.

She also participated in the Clinical Family Law Program and spent many hours in family court gaining valuable insight into the family justice sFamily Law Program and spent many hours in family court gaining valuable insight into the family justice sfamily court gaining valuable insight into the family justice sfamily justice system.

Since 2006, Peacebuilders has run a restorative court - diversion program, Restorative Youth Circles (RYC), at the Ontario Court of Justice Youth and Family Court at 311 Jarvis.

Federal Child Support Guidelines (choose «Programs and Initiatives» and scroll down to Family Justice).

According to Justice David Wake, who chaired the Secretariat from 1999 to 2005, it has faced a number of challenges over the years, including: continuing uncertainty about the different roles of the Conference and the Office of the Chief Justice; concern about possible erosion to the core programs; lack of coordination between the different programs; and the ongoing worry of the family law judges that their unique programming needs might be lost as their numbers declined with the expansion of the Unified Family family law judges that their unique programming needs might be lost as their numbers declined with the expansion of the Unified Family Family Court.

Dr Degoldi is Treasurer of Collaborative Practice Simcoe County, a member of the Joint Action Committee for family law reform, a panel presenter for the Mandatory Information Program and a Dispute Resolution Officer for the Superior Court of Justice Family Court Bfamily law reform, a panel presenter for the Mandatory Information Program and a Dispute Resolution Officer for the Superior Court of Justice Family Court BFamily Court Branch.

Bonnie Rose Hough is the Principal Managing Attorney for the Center for Families, Children & the Courts of the Judicial Council of California and oversees its Access to Justice, Self Help, Family Law, Domestic Violence, and Tribal / State programs.

Family Matters with Justice Harvey Brownstone is an online TV program with a focus on a multiplicity of issues affecting contemporary North American life, with a particular emphasis on the interplay between relationships and the justice system: internet dating, addictions, prenups, mental health, adoption, surrogate parenting, same - sex relationships, multicultural relationships, parenting after separation and divorce, mediation, child neglect and abuse, child and spousal support — and this is just the tip of the iJustice Harvey Brownstone is an online TV program with a focus on a multiplicity of issues affecting contemporary North American life, with a particular emphasis on the interplay between relationships and the justice system: internet dating, addictions, prenups, mental health, adoption, surrogate parenting, same - sex relationships, multicultural relationships, parenting after separation and divorce, mediation, child neglect and abuse, child and spousal support — and this is just the tip of the ijustice system: internet dating, addictions, prenups, mental health, adoption, surrogate parenting, same - sex relationships, multicultural relationships, parenting after separation and divorce, mediation, child neglect and abuse, child and spousal support — and this is just the tip of the iceberg!

Sonja is the Deputy Director of Program Innovation & Strategic Partnerships and a founding staff member of Root & Rebound, a reentry legal resource center that provides expertise in all areas of reentry law to individuals with past justice system involvement, families with incarcerated loved ones, and community - based organizations and agencies, so that the United States can become a society that supports opportunities for all.

The Tompkins Court staff received the award because of their outstanding usage and promotion of the Family Court DIY Form programs, increasing access to justice for unrepresented litigants.

The NYS Courts Access to Justice Program has added a new Spanish feature to the Family Court Custody / Visitation Enforcement and Custody / Visitation Modification DIY Form programs for Spanish speaking unrepresented litigants.

Collaborators included Pro Bono Net, the New York Court's Access to Justice Program, NYC Family Court, the Court's Division of Technology, and the Center for Court Innovation and domestic violence advocacy groups.

During the week of March 17, 2014, eight State Court officials attended an all day session in New York City learning the NYS Courts Access to Justice Program's Best Practices and also visited and observed the Bronx Family Court Help Center.

This a promotional video clip of Family Matters, a TV program with a focus on a multiplicty of issues affecting contemporary North American life, with a particular emphasis on the interplay between relationships and the justice system: internet dating, addictions, prenups, mental health, adoption, surrogate parenting, same - sex relationships, multicultural relationships, parenting after separation and divorce, mediation, child neglect and abuse, child and spousal support — and this is just the tip of the iceberg!

On March 27, 2014, the Tompkins County Family Court Staff was awarded the NYS Courts Access to Justice Program's prestigious DIY Star Award.

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