Child Welfare

Through a contract awarded by the Ohio Department of Children and Youth (DCY), the Ohio Access to Justice Foundation is leading a new collaboration, Child Welfare Champions, to improve Ohio’s child welfare system by enhancing the quality and quantity of attorneys practicing child welfare law. Child Welfare Champions will implement a multi-pronged approach to changing [...]

A single parent working two jobs who relies on a relative for childcare may find herself investigated by the state and summoned to a courthouse after her relative falls asleep one afternoon and her toddler is found wandering the neighborhood unattended. On that first trip to the courthouse, the parent often meets a lawyer for [...]