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Annette Smith (she/her)

@OneLawma

Oregon Family Defender/Public Defender, National Juvenile Rights Advocate, Children & The Law Pro Tem Instructor

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Caroline Cole(@itscarolinecole) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Take action now to support HB 1028- a bill that will prohibit corporal punishment on disabled children in Oklahoma schools!!

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Can I get 90 minutes from you today to learn more about the present child abuse still happening in “congregate care” for children? Please tune in to this free webinar starting in just under an hour!

Can I get 90 minutes from you today to learn more about the present child abuse still happening in “congregate care” for children? Please tune in to this free webinar starting in just under an hour!
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Heading to Seattle today with my 11-year-old. We’ve done the usual touristy things before. What’s a “don’t miss” that might be more obscure? Also, best place for hot pot for dinner?

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Please join in on this free event and hear from lived experience experts, journalists and advocates about what is really happening to kids in the Troubled Teen Industry!

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Thank you Sarah and others for speaking! I’ll be joining the conversation later in the series to discuss how the troubled teen industry is harming foster kids too.

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We filed a lawsuit against the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) for its pervasive, system-wide practice of unnecessarily warehousing children with disabilities in the foster system in dangerous, locked psychiatric institutions.
childrensrights.org/in-the-courts/…

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This is who American parents sent their children to for “treatment.” This is the This is not an isolated issue. Chelsea Maldonado ParisHilton Dawn J. Post, Esq.

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It’s Child Abuse Prevention Month! What a good time to talk about the harm that comes from the broken child welfare system, the terror of needless family separation, and the horrific outcomes for a huge number of former foster youth. Child Abuse Prevention starts with support.

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Dawn J. Post, Esq.(@dawnjpostesq) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“I realize that the same issues that plague the child welfare system in the U.S. including predatory residential youth programs also similarly impact families seeking private placement... [they] are often unlicensed, unsupervised, and unregulated.'
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