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Child Advocacy
LAW
654

Child Advocacy

Hours

2.0 Credit, 2.0 Lecture, 0 Lab
Learn about the juvenile court system and how issues of abuse, neglect and delinquency are handled. Learn how the judicial system affects the lives of children and how advocates can make a difference in the system. Opportunity to "shadow" attorneys from the Guardian Ad Litem's office, the Public Defender's and Attorney General's offices, and to sit in court with a Juvenile Court Judge. Students will tour the Detention Center, the House of Hope, Independence High School, Lightening Peak, Family Support and Treatment and the Children's Justice Center.