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The Foster Care Reform Legal Resource Center

The goal of the Foster Care Reform Legal Resource Center is to engage child welfare attorneys in Appleseed’s reform efforts, by helping them enforce constitutional and statutory rights and connect the legal and policy issues they see daily with system-level change in Nebraska’s foster care system.

The Foster Care Reform Legal Resource Center can assist juvenile court practitioners with the following:

• Legal research on constitutional or statutory issues implicating targeted systemic issues in the system
• Information on child welfare reform that is occurring across the state and nationally, including case law and legislative developments
• Co-counseling, intervention, and development of amicus briefs in selected cases involving systemic policy issues
• Nebraska child welfare listserv featuring regular updates and the opportunity to dialogue with other juvenile lawyers across the state on issues faced in your practice

Visit the Foster Care Reform Legal Resource Center.