Child Advocacy
Handbook

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    Table of Contents

• Intoduction to the Clinic

• About the Handbook

• Getting Started

• Rule 38(E) and the Role of the Supervising Attorney

• Ten Random Thoughts on Good Lawyering

• A Little Bit About Child Protection

• Dependency Proceedings

• The Players

• The Role of Federal Law

• How a Dependency Proceeding Gets Started

• CPS Criteria for Responding to a Report of Maltreatment

• The Model Court Process

• The Course of a Dependency

• Clinic Procedures for Model Court

• Model Court for Private Dependencies

• The Indian Child Welfare Act

• The Settlement Conference

• Mediation

• Dependency Adjudications

• Top Ten Things You Ought to Know About Evidence in Juvenile Court

• Dependency Review

• Permanency Planning

• Permanent Guardianships

• Severance Proceedings

• Appendix Checklist

• Appendix of Samples

• GLOSSARY

• FORMS