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Announcements July 2011 R&D sites selected We are happy to announce that the states of Georgia and Washington are our partners for the QIC-ChildRep R&D sites.	Overview In October 2009, the U.S. Children’s Bureau named University of Michigan Law School the National Quality Improvement Center on the Representation of Children in the Child Welfare System (QIC-ChildRep). The QIC-ChildRep, is a five-year, 5 million dollar project to gather, develop and communicate knowledge on child representation, promote consensus on the role of the child’s legal representative, and provide one of the first empirically-based analyses of how legal representation for the child might best be delivered. Our Work We are assembling one of the first compilations of existing knowledge regarding child representation. See State of Child Representation for a summary of state laws governing child representation from 10 sample states; a more in-depth review of how that law is applied in practice (Review of State Laws); the academic articles on the topic; and evaluations of child representation. Read more...	Our Questions What should be the duties and responsibilities of the child’s representative in civil child protection proceedings? Who should represent the child in such proceedings? A lawyer? A CASA? A social worker? A team? What does the child representative do that makes a difference in a child’s life? How can effective representation for the child be accomplished? That is, what organizational structure best delivers legal services for a child? By what criteria is effective child representation to be measured? How should the child's representative accommodate the child's wishes in setting the goals of the advocacy?

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