TeamChild Board and Staff are excited to announce that we have selected Marcos Martinez as our new Executive Director!
TeamChild staff join with others in our community in honoring the life of Justice Sun, who died in December. Justice was a friend of TeamChild and a fierce advocate, locally in Spokane and around the state.
TeamChild’s legal assistants and attorneys are busy representing hundreds of youth across the state as we charge into 2022 with big challenges. We continue to center youth and stand with them to find legal pathways to help them meet their goals in the community.
TeamChild supported the end to Parent Pay because we know from our clients and their families, that one important way to support a young person returning home from a time of incarceration is to make sure their family is as strong as they can be economically.
As a nonprofit civil legal aid organization serving youth across Washington State, TeamChild continues to uphold the rights of young people, secure the support they need, and transform punitive systems into more effective methods of addressing root causes and providing meaningful and appropriate support, opportunities, and healing to youth across Washington State.
I’m thankful for all of our staff, board, supporters, and donors who give life to TeamChild’s mission and are passionately leading our work into a new chapter. I can’t wait to see what the future holds!
The Advancing Justice Fund was created to support and reflect the values Annie has promoted at TeamChild for more than 20 years: Innovation, Impact, Capacity and Sustainability.
From now on, when schools and courts are addressing the needs of students who are absent from school, the student does not risk incarceration as a consequence of missing school.
It’s an exciting time at TeamChild as we are hiring for several attorney positions. We want to use this opportunity to answer your questions and introduce our work!
TeamChild is so proud of, and excited for, King County Legal Assistant Porsche Phelps who was recently selected for a yearlong Youth Justice Leadership Institute fellowship from the National Juvenile Justice Network (NJJN). Her focus will be on creating a statewide Youth Policy Coalition, who will work in partnership with TeamChild to draft a bill for legislation.
Porsche shared these reactions to the news:
This fellowship offers amazing mentorship, and the chance to expand my knowledge and understanding of youth advocacy on a national level. While my career in civil legal aid began 4 years ago, I have had aspirations to do youth justice work since I was a kid. This is a leadership opportunity to develop and push myself outside of my comfort zone, while also asking what does my community need to flourish?
I am looking forward to this opportunity to join NJJN at a deeper level and I am most excited about working directly with young people, cultivating those relationships and hearing their visions and desires for what will work in their communities.
Stay tuned for more details as Porsche develops this project with support from TeamChild along the way!
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TeamChild is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
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