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SUMMARY:Rethinking Protection: Raising the Bar on Legal Protections for Survivors and Children
DESCRIPTION:Join meeting at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PcpbVbMmQtyYY6KK-yFo3A?utm_medium=email&utm_source=webinars062024#/registration\n\nHow can child- and family-serving agencies, advocates, and communities help ensure access to the high-quality legal advocacy needed to keep families together? Join this critical conversation to learn about the challenges to survivor safety and well-being created by the legal structure of child welfare.\n\nExpand your knowledge on the ways legal protections and social supports can create meaningful pathways to keep families out of child welfare and children out of foster care.\n\nRegister now\n\nSpeakers\n\nSharwline Nicholson\n\nMother, Survivor and Lead Plaintiff on Nicholson v. Scoppetta·A Moment With Sharwline\n\nIn January of 1999, Sharwline Nicholson decided to end her relationship with the father of her infant daughter. But when she ended the relationship, he responded with violence. After she was assaulted, Sharwline reached out to the police and to a friend asking that her friend watch her children while she went to the hospital. While she was at the hospital, the child welfare system removed her children for reasons of failure to protect. Sharwline fought to get her children back and along with other women filed a class action suit citing deprivation of their 14th amendment right of due process protecting familial relationships. Nicholson v. Williams would eventually lead the New York Court of Appeals to rule in 2004 that a parent's inability to prevent a child from witnessing abuse could not be a sole factor for removing a child and that you had to balance the harm of removal with the harm of exposure to domestic violence.\n\n	See More\n\n	Melody Webb, Esq.\n\nExecutive Director·Mother's Outreach Network (D.C.)\n\nMelody Webb is the executive director of Mother's Outreach Network, which convenes the DC Guaranteed Income Coalition. A movement lawyer, Melody ...
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