Colorado Lawyers Committee Focuses on Child Abuse Prevention
| Publication year | 1992 |
| Pages | 227 |
| Citation | Vol. 21 No. 2 Pg. 227 |
1992, February, Pg. 227. Colorado Lawyers Committee Focuses On Child Abuse Prevention
The Colorado Lawyers Committee is a non-profit organization whose members include twenty-eight major Colorado law firms. For over ten years, the member firms have been committed to providing free legal services and assistance on poverty, civil rights and children's issues to individuals and groups throughout Colorado. The Lawyers Committee's Child Abuse and Foster Care Task Force ("Task Force") was created in response to growing awareness that our society has placed too little emphasis on the health and well-being of our most precious resource---our children.
With over 2.5 million reported cases of child abuse in this country in 1990 alone, and with the attendant drain on our society's resources, many are becoming painfully aware of this growing problem. Through the Colorado Lawyers Committee's Loaned Attorney Program, the Committee's Task Force has been ably assisted in addressing this disturbing trend. From June through December 1991, the law firm of Sherman & Howard graciously loaned to the Colorado Lawyers Committee the valuable services of Barbara Jones, Esq. on a part-time basis. Ms. Jones's primary task has been to aid a consortium of community agencies ("Consortium") in developing a statewide child abuse prevention plan to be approved by the public and private sectors.
The ultimate goal of this project is the development of a statewide, communitybased, interdisciplinary organization which will coordinate child abuse prevention efforts in Colorado. Included in the Consortium are Family Focus, Inc., the Colorado Child Protection Council, the Colorado Department of Education, the C. Henry Kempe Children's Foundation and the Community Caring Program.
Ms. Jones has worked hard to guide the Consortium through the process of determining the best approach to take in meeting its established objectives. For example, she requested statewide child abuse prevention plans from a majority of states around the country. She received a number of responses and has studied these often voluminous documents in an effort to focus better the Consortium's strategic planning process. Ms. Jones also set up weekly meetings with Consortium members and has provided effective leadership...
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