Grant Database

Transitioning Dependent Youth Project: Legal advocacy for dependent youth, especially children within the foster care system aged 13-18, or 19 if still dependent, at risk for homelessness due to limited financial and medical resources and or due to the need for special education services to assist in transition to adulthood.

The Child Advocacy Project: Provide legal services for free and appropriate education on behalf of children with special needs. CLSMF provides intensive legal advocacy and long-term representation to ensure the public school system is in compliance with IDEA, Section 504 and ADA.

Teen Legal Collaborative

Education Services Project: Direct representation of school age children, and their parents, in accessing free and appropriate education in public primary and secondary schools, focusing on substantive rights of students in the areas of special education and student attendant services mandated by IDEA, homeless children under the federal McKinny-Vento Act, and monitoring district compliance with consent decree in LULAC vs. Commissioner of Education.

Children’s Legal Project

Children in Custody

Children’s Education Advocacy Project

Children’s Statewide Litigation and Policy Advocacy Project

Health Care Access/Special Education Project: Providing legal representation to children with special education and healthcare access issues

Systemic Initiatives

Children’s SIJS Project/Juvenile Detention: To assist undocumented children in obtaining Special Immigrant Juvenile Status

Crisis in Duval County Foster Care and Education: Targets most needy children in foster care with developmental or emotional/mental disabilities and languishing in foster care and education systems that negatively impact foster children in Duval County

Teen Legal Collaborative

Miami Youth S.H.I.N.E.

Children’s Advocacy Program

Children’s Educational Advocacy Law Project: Provides community education, systemic advocacy, litigation and legal representation to assure that disabled children enrolled in public schools receive legally mandated educational services.

Guardian ad Litem Program: Provide representation to Orange County children who have been declared dependent by the court due to allegations of abuse, abandonment, or neglect. The mission is to provide holistic advocacy for children with goals of increasing health, mental health, education, independent living and immigration services, protecting their safety and well being, reducing their length of stay in state care, and of those children who age out of licensed care, increasing their success in transitioning from foster care to independence.

Special Education Advocacy Project

Children’s Legal Representation Project: Advocating, monitoring, overseeing and collaborating needs of children in the areas of dependency, delinquency, education, public benefits and economic independence.

Education Advocacy Project