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Advocates for Children's Services
TOPICS:
Adoption & Foster Care
Children's
Rights
Legal
Information & Comments (articles)
Medicaid
Special
Education
Adoption & Foster Care:
Children's Rights:
Legal Information & Comments:
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"The Bar's Ethical Responsibility to Children"
by Lewis Pitts, Senior Managing Attorney, ACS
...An article in the ABA Children Rights Litigation Committee 2003
newsletter that suggests that attorneys need to rally for children...
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"Beyond
Rhetoric to Due process Protective Rights for
Children: A Civil Rights Approach is Imperative"
by Lewis Pitts, Senior Managing Attorney, ACS...The
intent of this essay is to provoke deeper dialogue and action to redress the
unmet legal needs of our nation’s children as a means of providing all
children their basic right to a healthy, safe, happy life....
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"Fighting for Children's Rights: Lessons from the Civil Rights
Movement"
by Lewis Pitts, Senior Managing Attorney, ACS
..."This article aims to bring about action to address the unmet legal and
developmental needs of children....The immediate social change required here
is for children to be recognized as 'persons' under the U.S. Constitution
with the rights to vigorous legal representation when they have significant
interests at stake...." his article was first published in the "University
of Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy", Aug. 2005, Vol. 16, No. 2.
[Note: This is a pdf document and requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]
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"Kids &
Corporations: A Call for Action"
"...Real people must defy this corporate rule and reclaim the power and
values embedded in the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution.
We, the People, are entitled to self-government and democracy so we can
provide for the needs of all children...."
Medicaid:
Special
Education:
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