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Entries by Karen Pillar
Personal Restraint Petitions – Helping Individuals Who Are Incarcerated Present Requests for Relief to the Court
TeamChild’s Youth Advisory Board seeks to find a systemic way to change the approach to bullying and harassment that can reduce the incidents that make some students unsafe, while increasing the services that can allow other students to stay in school without causing further harm.
Accountability and Inclusion – Youth Advisory Board Weighs In
TeamChild’s Youth Advisory Board seeks to find a systemic way to change the approach to bullying and harassment that can reduce the incidents that make some students unsafe, while increasing the services that can allow other students to stay in school without causing further harm.
Expanding the Circle of Care
Youth detention centers and jails are not homes. Everyone knows this. Everyone agrees. Yet TeamChild attorneys work with clients regularly to try to find a safe place for them to live when it is time for them to be released from detention.
Developmentally Appropriate Responses Change Lives
The passage of ESHB 1394 is one of the most consequential successes we had in the legislature this year. It will change the lives of thousands of young people.
Putting Our Money Where Our Values Are
The services and supports needed for young people, their families, and communities must be adequately funded now to assure that they can weather all of the ups and downs of growing up.
Let’s Keep ALL Students Safe at School – Take Action TODAY
Substitute House Bill 1479 (Banning isolation and restraint in schools) made it past the most recent cutoff and is still alive to become law this session. It has many hurdles to face before this session ends on April 23, 2023.
Accountability and Inclusion
TeamChild attorneys tackle 2 major issues for clients: accountability and inclusion. A true failure of accountability and inclusion at a statewide level is highlighted in last month’s reporting from The Seattle Times and ProPublica about the Northwest School of Innovative Learning (NW SOIL).
Debt Free Youth Justice
TeamChild has been working for over a decade with individual clients, and with systems as a whole, to eliminate the harms the juvenile legal system creates for young people, their families, and communities. Much of this work has focused on post-conviction relief, which means helping a young person who has been through the legal system reconnect to a productive, inclusive, and supportive environment after that contact with court and incarceration.
Electing Prosecuting Attorneys: Why You(th) Matter(s)
There are two significant prosecuting attorney races happening in Washington state this November 8th, one in King County and one in Spokane County. For many voters, and especially young people, it may be difficult to meaningfully participate in this election because it’s hard to understand what the job of a prosecutor is all about.
