4/17/2008 - Policy Attorney Josh Gupta- Kagan testified at the DC Council Committee on Human Services  budget hearing for the Department of Human Services regarding the connection between TANF funding rates and abuse/neglect and foster care rates. Read the Testimony...

4/17/2008 - Policy Attorney Shannon Hall testified at the DC Council Committee on Health budget hearing for the Department of Mental Health. Read the Testimony...

4/4/2008 - Policy Attorney Shannon Hall submitted testimonny to the DC Council Committee of the Whole regarding the Office of the Chief Financial Officer's Office of Budget and Planning efforts to adopt a more transparent budget.  Read the Testimony...

3/13/2008 - Policy Attorney Shannon Hall testified at the DC Council Committee on Public Safety and the Judiciary and the Committee on Housing and Urban Affairs Joint Oversight Roundtable Hearing about Juvenile Violence. Read the Testimony...

2/7/2008 - DC Council Committee on Human Services/Committee on Public Safety and the Judiciary: Testimony by The Children's Law Center on Recommendations of the Child Fatality Review Committee. Read more...<

1/15/08 - Executive Director Judith Sandalow testified on January 15, 2008 at the DC Council Oversight Hearing into the Adequacy of the District's Response to the Tragic Death of the Jacks' Children. Read more...

11/8/2007 - Testimony by The Children's Law Center at the DC Council Confimation Hearing for Director of the Child and Family Services Agency Sharlynn E. Bobo. Read more...

strong> 7/6/2007 - "The State of Special Education and the Strategy for Inclusion." Read more...

6/15/2007 - "Intrafamily Offenses Act of 2007." Read more...

2/15/2007 - Child and Family Services Agency Oversight Hearing. Read more...