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A legal clinic (also law clinic or law-school clinic) is a legal aid or law-school program providing services to various clients and often hands-on legal experience to law students. Clinics are usually directed by clinical professors. [1] Legal clinics typically conduct pro bono work, providing free legal services to clients. Legal clinics ...
The Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF), located in Berkeley, California, and Washington, DC, US, is a national cross-disability civil rights law and policy center directed by individuals with disabilities and parents who have children with disabilities. Founded in 1979, DREDF advances the civil and human rights of people with ...
The agency began as two organizations: Zacchaeus Free Clinic, and Bread for the City, a project by a coalition of downtown DC churches created in 1974 to feed and clothe the poor. As of 2011 [update] Bread for the City offered food, clothing, social services, legal representation and medical care without charge to eligible DC residents.
Family support is the support of families with a member with a disability, which may include a child, an adult, or even the parent in the family.In the United States, family support includes "unpaid" or "informal" support by neighbors, families, and friends, "paid services" through specialist agencies providing an array of services termed "family support services", school or parent services ...
OCFS has wide-ranging responsibilities for the provision of services to children, youth, families, and vulnerable adults. The agency is responsible for programs and services involving foster care, adoption, and adoption assistance; child protective services, including operating the Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment; preventive services for children and families; child ...
The entire Webb family was also "adopted" through The Arc Baltimore's annual Adopt-a-Family Drive. "We had over 60 families 'adopted' this year and for us, that is incredible – to be able to ...
The Children's Court Clinic in New South Wales, part of the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network, is a medico-legal clinic established pursuant to Section 15B of the Children’s Court Act 1987 (NSW) and the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998 (NSW) which prepares independent reports on children for legal proceedings before the Children's Court of New South Wales.
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