MAKING FAMILIES AND CHILDREN A HIGH PRIORITY IN THE COURTS |
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| Authors: | Christopher N Wu |
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| Institution: | Christopher N. Wu is an attorney with the California Administrative Office of the Courts, Center for Families, Children &the Courts. Before joining that office, he was the managing attorney at Legal Services for Children in San Francisco, a nonprofit law office providing direct services using teams of attorneys and social workers. He is a member of the board of directors of the National Association of Counsel for Children, the National Center for Youth Law, and Legal Services for Children. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, where his interest in children's law began in the law school's Child Advocacy Law Clinic. |
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| Abstract: | This article describes the California Administrative Office of the Court's (AOC's) Center for Families, Children & the Courts (CFCC). CFCC is an interdisciplinary unit that brings together all of the AOC's work on statewide policies and practices related to families and children in the court system. CFCC thus models the unified family court model within the state AOC. CFCC's projects and activities are described to show the effectiveness of its multidisciplinary and collaborative approach in addressing complex policy and practice issues. It is hoped that readers may discover aspects of CFCC's work that could be adapted to their own jurisdiction or practice. |
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