Tcl - Achieving Permanency for Adolescents in Foster Care: a Guide for Legal Professionals - April 2007 - Review of Legal Resources

• Publication year: 2007
• Pages: 57
• Citation: Vol. 36 No. 4 Pg. 57

36 Colo.Law. 57 Colorado Lawyer 2007.

2007, April, Pg. 57. TCL - Achieving Permanency for Adolescents in Foster Care: A Guide for Legal Professionals - April 2007 - Review of Legal Resources

The Colorado Lawyer
April 2007
Vol. 36, No. 4 [Page 57]

Departments
Review of Legal Resources

Achieving Permanency for Adolescents in Foster Care: A Guide for Legal Professionals

by Jaime R. Roman

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ACHIEVING PERMANENCY FOR ADOLESCENTS IN FOSTER CARE: A GUIDE FOR LEGAL PROFESSIONALS

by the American Bar Association, principal author Andrea Khoury (American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law, 2006: 740 15th St., N.W., Washington, DC 20005;

http://www.abanet.org/child); 246 pp.; $24.95.

Reviewed by Jaime R. Roman

Roman is with the California Office of Administrative Hearings, where he is the presiding administrative law judge of the General Jurisdiction Division for the Sacramento Regional Office - jaime.roman@us.army.mil.

Achieving Permanency for Adolescents in Foster Care: A Guide for Legal Professionals (Achieving Permanency) is written for lawyers and advocates working with children subject to foster care placement and the jurisdiction of a juvenile court - whether because of delinquency, parental neglect, or abandonment. These attorneys and advocates have first-hand encounters with children who have experienced the difficulties of foster care placement. They also learn that problems for the foster parents or group home parents, the teenager, and, on occasion, the juvenile court system become more pronounced as a child...