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Thursday April 21
2016
 Permanency Hearings in Article Ten Proceedings

This training will provide a general overview of permanency hearings in Article Ten proceedings in New York Family Court, with a focus on parent representation.  Courts are required to hold permanency hearings whenever children are removed from their home and placed into foster care or with a non-parent relative.  The training will review the issues at stake in permanency hearings such as the goal for the children, findings of reasonable efforts, and continuation of foster care, and will also expand on strategic considerations for parent attorneys in disputing these issues.  The training will also cover procedural issues such as the timing of permanency hearings, and the authority of court attorney referees, and the intervention of foster parents.  The training will specifically address the authority of the court to issue orders against foster care agencies regarding the placement or discharge of children, and the provision of services.  The training will also review special considerations for incarcerated client, clients with disabilities, and unwed fathers in permanency hearings.  The faculty will address the ethical considerations about whether to participate in a client’s absence at a permanency hearing. 

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  • When
    Thursday, April 21, 2016
    9:30 am - 12:30 pm
  • Location
    Legal Services NYC - Central
    40 Worth St., 6th floor
    New York, NY 10013
  • CLE Credits
    Ethics and Professionalism: 0.50
    Skills: 1.00
    Areas of Professional Practice: 1.50
  • Format
    Traditional Live Classroom
  • Practice Area(s)
    Practice Skills
    Legal Practice
    Family
  • Price: $120

About the Faculty

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    Juliana Chereji (Speaker)

    Juliana Chereji is a supervising attorney at Brooklyn Defender Services-Family Defense Practice where she supervises a team of five attorneys in Article 10, TPR and custody and visitation hearings. She has been representing parents in child protective proceedings since 2009. Ms. Chereji is fluent in Spanish and has primarily represented Spanish-speaking respondents in abuse and neglect cases at BFDP. She coordinates the family defense practice's language access advocacy project.
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    Kathryn Lissy (Speaker)

    Kathryn Lissy received her J.D. degree from New York University School of Law in 2012. She graduated from Swarthmore College in 2008, earning her B.A. in Political Science with honors. During law school, Kathryn interned at the Goddard Riverside Westside SRO Law Project assisting in the provision of direct legal services to low-income clients facing eviction proceedings in Manhattan Housing Court. She also interned at the law firm of Lansner, Kubitscheck & Schaffer, where she assisted in the preparation of appeals and plaintiff's cases in the practice areas of civil rights, child protective proceedings, and social security cases. Since graduating, she has worked at Brooklyn Defender Services in its Special Litigation and Family Defense Practices advocating for indigent parents in abuse, neglect, termination of parental rights, and other proceedings. She now serves as the Senior Attorney for Law and Appeals developing new litigation and assisting her colleagues in their appellate practice.
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    Patricia Moon (Speaker)

    Patricia received her J.D. from Yale Law School. During law school, she interned at the Advocacy for Children and Youth Clinic and the Lowenstein Human Rights Clinic. She also served as co-chair of the Initiative for Public Interest Law, managing editor of the Yale Journal of International Law, and a member of the Green Haven Prison Project. Prior to law school, she served as a fellow for an international NGO that worked to train public defenders in China in order to promote reform of the criminal justice system. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale College.