Reports / Studies

  1. American Bar Association, Center on Children and the Law for The Child Welfare Services Division of The Michigan State Court Administrative Office, Legal Representation for Parents in Child Welfare Proceedings: A Performance-Based Analysis of Michigan Practice (2009), available at 

    https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/center_on_children_and_the_law/parentrepresentation/michigan_parent_representation_report.pdf

  2. American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law, Summary of Parent Representation Models (2009), available at https://www.ils.ny.gov/files/ABA%20Summary%20Of%20Parent%20Representation%20Models.pdf.

  3. Justice Bobbe J. Bridge and Joanne I. Moore, J.D., Implementing Equal Justice for Parents in Washington: A Dual Approach, Juvenile Family Court Journal (July 14, 2009), abstract available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1755-6988.2002.tb00072.x.

  4. Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems, Representation in Child Neglect Cases: Are Parents Neglected? (1968).

  5. Mark Courtney, PhD and Jennifer Hook, PhD, Evaluating the Impact of Enhanced Parental Legal Representation on the Timing of Permanency Outcomes for Children in Foster Care, Partners for Our Children, 1 Discussion Papers 1 (Feb. 2011), available at https://partnersforourchildren.org/sites/default/files/2011._evaluation..._impact_of_enhanced_parental_legal_representation....discussion_paper.pdf.

  6. Lucas A. Gerber, Yuk C. Pang, Timothy Ross, Martin Guggenheim, Peter J. Pecora, and Joel Miller, Effects of an interdisciplinary approach to parental representation in child welfare (2019), available at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019074091930088X.

  7. Jason A. Oetjen, Improving Parents' Representation in Dependency Cases: A Washington State Pilot Program Evaluation, National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (2003), available at http://www.opd.wa.gov/documents/0047-2003_PRP_Evaluation.pdf.

  8. Partners for Our Children, Washington's Parents Representation Program Helping Children in Child Welfare System Reach Permanency, 1 Issue Brief 1 (Feb. 2011).

    Washington State Office of Public Defense, Reunification and Case Resolution Improvements in Office of Public Defense (OPD) Parents Representation Program Counties (Feb. 2010), available at http://www.opd.wa.gov/documents/0049-2010_PRP_Evaluation.pdf.

  9. Vivek Sankaran, Using Preventive Legal Advocacy to Keep Children from Entering Foster Care, Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 40, no. 3 (2014), available at https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.ecosia.org/&httpsredir=1&article=1946&context=articles.

  10. Vivek Sankaran and John Pollock, A National Survey on a Parent's Right to Counsel in Termination of Parental Rights and Dependency Cases (2016).

  11. Supreme Court Of Texas, Permanent Judicial Commission For Children, Youth & Families, Assessment of Appointed Representation in Texas Child-Protection Proceedings (Jan. 2011).

  12. Elizabeth Thornton, Court-Based Child Welfare Reforms: Improved Child/Family Outcomes and Potential Cost Savings (August 2012), available at https://firstfocus.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/FirstFocus-Rights-CourtBasedChildWelfare.pdf.

  13. Washington State Office of Public Defense, Dependency and Termination Defense Pilot Project: Interim Evaluation (Jan. 2001), available at http://www.opd.wa.gov/documents/0044-2001_PRP_Evaluation.pdf, summary at https://www.law.uw.edu/news/2016/justice-by-geography/.

  14. Washington State Office of Public Defense, Reunification and Case Resolution Improvements in Office of Public Defense (OPD) Parents Representation Program Counties (Feb. 2010), available at http://www.opd.wa.gov/documents/0049-2010_PRP_Evaluation.pdf.

  15. Women's Law Center of Maryland, Inc., Families in Transition: A Follow-up Study Exploring Family Law Issues in Maryland (Dec. 2006), available at http://www.wlcmd.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Families-in-Transition.pdf.

  16. Steve M. Wood, Alicia Summers, and Crystal Soderman Duarte, Legal Representation in the Juvenile Dependency System: Travis County, Texas' Parent Representation Pilot Project, 54 Fam. Ct. Rev. 277 (Apr. 2016).

  17. Steve M.Wood and Jesse R.Russell, Effects of Parental and Attorney Involvement on Reunification in Juvenile Dependency Cases, Children and Youth Services Review, Volume 33, Issue 9 (Sept. 2011), abstract available at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190740911001484.

  18. University of Michigan Law School, Detroit Center for Family Advocacy Pilot Evaluation Report 7/2009-6/2012 (Feb. 2013).

  19. Washington State Center for Court Research, 2021 Evaluation of the Washington State Dependent Child Legal Representation Program (2021), available at https://www.courts.wa.gov/subsite/wsccr/docs/DCLR%20Report%202021.pdf.