Healthy Beginnings, Healthy Futures: A Judge's Guide (2009), produced in collaboration with the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and Zero to Three,...

The latest Practice & Policy Brief by ABA Center on Children and the Law-- Psychotropic Medications and Children in Foster Care: Tips for Advocates and...

Denver Post Article: In the past five years, 43 Colorado children died from abuse or neglect after entering the child welfare program. Every one of...

Policy Agenda 2012: Spark Action has posted a round-up of the key policies that organizations working on child and youth issues are tracking. http://sparkaction.org/agenda2012

Long-term Intellectual Outcome of Traumatic Brain Injury in Children: Limits to Neuroplasticity of the Young Brain? Harvey S. Levin, Pediatrics Taken together, two recent studies...

Amicus Brief in the Matter of V.A. The NACC signed-on to an amicus curiae brief to the New Jersey Supreme Court drafted jointly by the...

NACC Joins Juvenile Law Center in Amicus Curiae brief to U.S. Supreme Court Miller v. Alabama and Jackson v. Arkansas Both cases involve juveniles sentenced...

NACC files amicus curiae brief to New Hampshire Supreme Court in support of parent’s right to counsel in dependency proceedings. The brief can be found...

M.D. v. Perry The NACC, along with eight law professors from law schools in the 5 th Circuit, filed an amicus curiae brief to the...

NACC joins eight amici, the Center for Children’s Advocacy (Conn), the Children and Family Justice Center (Chicago), Children’s Law Center (DC), Civitas ChildLaw Center (Chicago),...

We're pleased to announce that we are now accepting Child Welfare Law Certification applications in the state of Oregon. The final application deadline for 2011...

Congratulations to the 76 attorneys and judges that have just attained their CWLS credential!  There are now 441 CWLS nationwide.  It was also the first...

Starting in January, the U.S. Children’s Bureau’s National Quality Improvement Center on the Representation of Children in the Child Welfare System (QIC-ChildRep) is providing a...

The new 2009 Child Welfare Law Specialists - CWLS have been announced.  Congratulations to the attorneys who worked so hard to achieve this credential.  ...

News Release: Bradford Publishing Co. and the National Association of Counsel for Children Release the Second Edition to "Child Welfare Law and Practice” This new...

The NACC is now soliciting abstract submissions for the 35th National Child Welfare, Juvenile, and Family Law Conference, August 14 - 16 at the Palmer...

The NACC is now soliciting abstract submissions for the 35th National Child Welfare, Juvenile, and Family Law Conference, August 14 - 16 at the Palmer...

This year’s conference will feature a session on Access to Higher Education for Foster Youth on Wednesday, August 31 at 2pm. Click here for a...