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When children are in crisis, Lawyers For Children is at their side to provide protection, support and hope.

LFC offers free legal and social work services, ensuring that every child we represent finds safety, love, and a true sense of family.

08/24/2026

Back to school = fresh notebooks, sharpened pencils, and a backpack ready for a new year! 🎒✏️📚

LFC clients & families: backpacks and school supplies are available for pickup at our office to help you start the school year ready to go. Contact your LFC team for more info!💛

A big thank you to Supplies For Success for helping make sure our clients have what they need to start the year strong! 🙌

Stop by and grab what you need while supplies last. Here’s to a great school year! 🍎✨

08/19/2026

📸✨ Want some new photos of you + your family?
LFC’s annual photo shoot is back! Come get FREE professional photos and help us show the people and families at the heart of LFC.

Photos from the shoot will be used to help represent LFC’s work and the clients and communities we serve throughout the year.

💸 LFC clients will receive a stipend for participating!
📅 Tuesday, September 15
⏰ 3:30–6 PM
📍 Manhattan park near the LFC office

Spots are limited, so sign up soon! 👀

Open to LFC clients who haven’t participated in the photo shoot in the last 3 years. Friends of LFC are welcome too!

Sign up now: https://tinyurl.com/fwv9akbx

07/30/2026

Happy National Intern Day! 🎉

Today we're celebrating our incredible social work and legal interns—this summer and throughout the year—who bring passion, dedication, and new perspectives to Lawyers For Children.

While we hope they leave with meaningful experience, the truth is we learn just as much from them. We're especially grateful to the talented students who come from across the country to dedicate their time to advocating for our young clients.

Thank you for the impact you're making today—and for the future changemakers we know you'll become. 💙

Meet our 2026 Summer Interns:

Alana Malloy-Francis — CUNY John Jay University
Allison Sullivan — Brooklyn Law School
Amrita Singh — St. John's University School of Law
Bernice Saladin — Rutgers Law School
Emily Perez — Fordham University School of Law
Ethan Su — SUNY Binghamton
Gabrihanna Jones — University of Chicago
Hana Pham — University of Nebraska College of Law
Julissa Castilla — Wesleyan University
Katerina Livermore — Princeton University
Lily Ellman — Brown University
Lindsey Cunningham — Harvard Law School
Morinsola Tinubu — Columbia Law School
Stephanie Ward — CUNY School of Law
Tiana Roger — Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College

07/27/2026

🚨 ATTN: NYC youth with Family Court experience! 🚨

✨ Your lived experience can help change the system—and you'll be paid $75/hour! 💸

The NYC Family Court is looking for young adults ages 18–25 with lived experience in Family Court to help create animated videos that explain the court process and youth rights in a way that's easier for young people to understand. 🎥💙

If you:
✅ Are 18–25 years old
✅ Have lived experience in NYC Family Court
✅ Do not have an active/open Family Court case
..this could be a great opportunity to make a difference while getting paid.

📲 Apply now: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=kv5WNNHLbUC1o1NkvsCoM1YS_alMz4NAq3y0EoSWFW5URURGVkdYVTZOWUFEOFBHVE1SNFlDTU41Ty4u&origin=QRCode

06/01/2026

🌈 Keep being unapologetically you.

This Pride Month, we celebrate LGBTQ+ young people & community, and their right to be proud of who they are.

You deserve to be heard, respected, and supported. You deserve to live authentically, fully, and without fear.

Your voice matters. Your identity matters. You belong.

We see you, we support you, and we're rooting for you every step of the way. 💜

05/29/2026

🎓 "Use your voice not only when it is easy, but when it is hard."

Last weekend, Lawyers For Children Founder and President Karen Freedman received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from her alma mater, Wesleyan University.

In her remarks, Karen shared the story that led to LFC's founding: when her boss told her she couldn't represent more children in foster care, Karen didn't take no for an answer. Lawyers For Children was born from that conviction.

More than 40 years later, that same determination has helped transform the lives of over 100,000 young people.

Congratulations, Karen, on this extraordinary and well-deserved honor. 💜

05/27/2026

Doesn't it feel good to win? Especially when it's a win for children & families?

New York’s highest court was not convinced you can create a “shadow foster care” system and just call it something else. Last week, after a four-year fight, the Court made clear that due process and existing law still apply when the government is involved in separating children from their families.

✅ Court said we had the right to sue as attorneys representing children in foster care.
✅ Court held the State had no authority to create a parallel “shadow foster care” system outside the law.
✅ Court acknowledged the critical rights children and parents were being denied — including counsel, court oversight, and accountability.

🫠 Turns out you can’t sidestep due process just because you slapped a different label on it.

Huge thanks to our co-plaintiffs at Legal Aid Society and Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo, our pro bono counsel at Proskauer, and the many amici who helped make this victory possible. 🤝

Big win for children and families across New York. ✨🧡

Learn more: https://www.lawyersforchildren.org/news/joint-statement-on-ny-court-of-appeals-shadow-foster-care-decision/

05/12/2026

This spring, our interdisciplinary team at Lawyers For Children — including members of our Youth Justice Practice team — joined other institutional legal providers in visiting NYC’s two juvenile detention facilities. We spoke directly with young people and staff, learned more about the programming being offered, and saw firsthand the conditions children are living in while in detention.

Young people in the youth justice system deserve safe conditions, meaningful programming, and real opportunities for their futures. At Lawyers For Children, we’ll continue advocating to ensure these facilities meet the needs and rights of the children in their care.

Learn more about our Youth Justice Practice: https://www.lawyersforchildren.org/how-we-help/youth-justice/

04/27/2026

Sibling relationships are a right—not optional.

This , we’re breaking myths about sibling relationships in foster care. The truth: these bonds are legally protected and critical to a child’s well-being.

As advocates, we must:

• Fight for sibling placements
• Ensure consistent visitation
• Treat these relationships as a priority—not an afterthought

Because for many children, siblings are their most lasting connection.

04/21/2026

Your voice matters. 💬

If you’ve ever used New York Office of Mental Health (OMH) services—or care about someone who has—this is your chance to speak up.

Take OMH’s quick survey (under 10 min) and help shape what mental health care should look like.
✔️ Quick
✔️ Anonymous
✔️ Confidential

Go to: https://nysomh.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_brqXSkGgQZ8HjQG

Background from OMH: The Office of Mental Health (OMH) is continuing to work hard to reach our goal of a more person-centered mental health system. Part of that work involves including the voices of people who currently receive or have received services in the past in how we measure the quality of mental health programs and services. As we continue to do this inside OMH, we are also asking for help from New Yorkers.

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