Legal Information and Resources
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KIDS LEGAL
KIDS LEGAL is a statewide project within Pine Tree Legal Assistance. We specialize in legal services addressing the needs of low-income Maine children. We provide direct representation, consultations and group trainings.
Web: KIDS LEGAL
American Bar Association, Center on Children and the Law
The American Bar Association is the largest voluntary professional association in the world. With more than 400,000 members, the ABA provides law school accreditation, continuing legal education, information about the law, programs to assist lawyers and judges in their work, and initiatives to improve the legal system for the public.
The ABA strives to provide you with the knowledge and tools you need to expand your career. From ABA-sponsored workshops, meetings, seminars and CLE sessions to the widest variety of respected and up-to-date publications, the ABA is your association, dedicated to helping you advance your career and the legal profession.
Web: http://www.abanet.org/child/
Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic
The Barton Clinic was established in March 2000 to address the need in Georgia for an organization dedicated to effecting systemic policy and process changes for the benefit of the children in Georgia's child welfare system. The clinic helps Georgia serve neglected and abused children by providing multi-disciplinary, child-focused research, training, and support for practitioners and policymakers charged with protecting Georgia's children. Located at Emory Law School, the clinic collaborates with Emory's School of Public Health, School of Nursing, School of Medicine and the Center for Violence Studies, as well as other Georgia colleges and universities.
Web: www.childwelfare.net
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
For three decades, the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law has been the nation's leading legal advocate for people with mental disabilities. Our precedent-setting litigation has outlawed institutional abuse and won protections against arbitrary confinement. In the courts and in Congress, our advocacy has opened up public schools, workplaces, housing and other opportunities for community life.
Web: www.bazelon.org/about/
The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
CLASP is an organization of program staff whose work is concentrated on family policy and access to civil legal assistance for low-income families. Family policy projects include welfare reform, workforce development, child care, child support enforcement, child welfare, couples and marriage policy, and reproductive health and teen parents. Civil legal assistance projects include "general counsel" to LSC-funded programs and the Project for the Future of Equal Justice.
Web: www.clasp.org
Guardian Ad Litem Best Practices Manual
The best practices manual attempts to assist you in both the nuts and bolts of GAL work while also focusing your attention on possible resources not previously identified that could significantly improve a child's situation.
http://www.ptla.org/vlp/gal.htm/
Maine's Volunteer Laywer Project
The VLP's primary mission has always been to maximize the quantity and quality of pro bono and pro se assistance Maine's bar can provide to the state's low-income community. This has been done through operating its own intake and referral operation.
Web: Maine's Volunteer Laywer Project
The following sites are located within the Pine Tree Legal website. We have found Pine Tree's entire website to contain helpful information, so it is important to note that these are only two of the possible links. Feel free to explore on your own!
Pine Tree Legal
Pine Tree Legal provides free legal services to low-income people in Maine, with offices in every part of the state, from Presque Isle to Portland. Pine Tree Legal helps people in several ways including:
- Evictions, landlord/tenant problems, and unsafe housing
- Problems with welfare benefits (including TANF, food stamps, general assistance, disability, and unemployment)
- Tax problems with the IRS
- Domestic Violence
- Medicaid services and coverage, and access to health care
- Poverty tax abatements for low-income homeowners
- Special Education
- Consumer problems
- Problems with DHS & child support
- Job training/ASPIRE/PaS
- Other serious civil legal problems
http://www.ptla.org/ptlasite/
Legal Help at Pine Tree Legal
Pine Tree Legal Assistance is a Maine legal services provider. Laws differ from state to state. Even federal laws can work differently from one state to another. By following this link you will find information on:
- Landlord/Tenant and Housing Issues
- Family Law
- Education
- Public Benefits
- Employment Law
- Health Care Issues
- Consumer Law
- Tax Issues
- Native American
- Miscellaneous
Web: http://www.ptla.org/ptlasite/cliented/cliented.htm
Kids Law: A Cooperative Approach to Protecting Children's Rights
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Updated: Jun 3rd, 2008 - 13:09:25
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