Elizabeth Thornton of the ABA Center on Children and the law joins the podcast to discus the Family Justice Initiative. Elizabeth explains how the ABA is working to improve the representation that children and parents receive in dependency and neglect court.
0:00 Opening
7:30 Overview of the ABA Family Justice Initiative
13:35 Inter-Disciplinary Approach to Representation
16:00 What Colorado Should be Thinking About
19:10 What is High Quality Representation and When is Everyone Better Off?
23:25 Attributes of Demonstrations Sites in the Family Justice Initiative
29:00 Myth Busting & FamilyJusticeIniative.Org
32:00 Three Takeaways for Taking Action
33:20 Getting to Know the Guest