Battered Women, Abused Children, and Child Custody:
 "A National Crisis"
The Ninth Annual Battered Mothers Custody Conference:  BMCC IX
 January 6th, 7th, and 8th, 2012      Friday evening through Sunday
 Make your hotel reservations with Holiday Inn Turf, 205 Wolf Road, Albany, NY at the Special Conference rate of $99
 Hotel Costs Are Separate From Conference Registration Fees
 Registration fee includes Friday evening cookies/and coffee, lunch on Saturday, and bagels/coffee on Sunday morning
 Holiday Inn has a restaurant; there are also several restaurants and stores close by

Updated Conference Schedule       Presenters       Online Registration       Announcement, Brochure, & Mail-In Registration
Home      Co-Sponsors      Support the Conference      Seminar Materials      Silent Auction
    The Conference in PBS' Film:  Breaking the Silence, Children's Stories      The Courageous Kids Network
 Add your child's hand prints to the Children Taken by the Family Courts Hand Prints Project
Contribute a panel to the "Children Taken by the Family Courts Community Quilt"
 Center for Judicial Excellence: Family Court Crisis Film and Photo Exhibit
 Disclaimers and Terms of Use      About the Conference
Now Available:  Domestic Violence, Abuse, and Child Custody:  Legal Strategies and Policy Issues
 Edited by Mo Therese Hannah, Ph.D. and Barry Goldstein, J.D.

Family courts routinely render battered mothers destitute, homeless, and struggling to survive.
 Please consider offering a space in your room or car to a battered mother who would otherwise be unable to attend.
Details will be emailed to confirmed attendees.

 

Conference Presenter


EILEEN KING
Regional Director, Justice For Children, Washington, D.C. Chapter
 kingeil656@aol.com      www.justiceforchildren.org

 

Ms. King is the Regional Director for Justice For Children’s Washington, D.C. Chapter. Justice For Children's ("JFC") headquarters is in Houston, Texas.  JFC is a grass roots non-profit organization founded in 1987 by former prosecutor Randy Burton to address the many “system failures” that drop children through the cracks of the child welfare and civil/criminal legal systems.  JFC is one of the few organizations that accepts cases for direct advocacy when a child has not been protected and is in danger of being re-abused.  We have many cases in which perpetrators of child physical or sexual abuse are trying to - or have succeeded -- in getting custody of their young victims through family court proceedings.  JFC-DC works with legal interns/externs and volunteers, performs casework advocacy for individual children, court-watches cases in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia, speaks at conferences, works with the media, coordinates Amicus Curiae briefs for selected appellate cases.  In 2009, JFC-DC launched the Three Angels Fund in Memory of Anthony, Austin and Athena Castillo.  This fund supports our efforts to recruit pro bono attorneys to work on behalf of abused children and the parents who are protecting them.  Pro bono attorney Gregory F. Jacob has two landmark appeals on behalf on JFC-DC cases:  Fox v Wills, 2006, Maryland Court of Appeals and Doe v Doe, 2009, Hawai'i Intermediate Court of Appeals.

 

In 2006, after Fox v Wills, JFC-DC helped pass Maryland HB 700 into law which establishes a "duty of ordinary care and diligence" for attorneys appointed to represent children in custody cases.

 

House Marjority Leader, Steny Hoyer spoke at JFC-DC's December 2008 and 2009 Annual Holiday Receptions; photographs are online at:

http://www.ontaponline.com/zenphoto/Justice_for_Children_12_02_08/ and http://MarkVanBergh.zenfolio.com/p18328980

 

 

Ms. King also runs the JusticeForChildren listserve at Yahoogroups.com and has written articles and book reviews for the Sexual Assault Report. Please go to our website to see our Brief Bank and other resources at www.justiceforchildren.org.

 

Eileen King 
Regional Director
Justice For Children - DC
1875 Connecticut Ave NW Ste 710
Washington, DC 20009
202-462-4688 voice
815-301-5516 fax
 www.justiceforchildren.org

 

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Please consider offering a space in your room or car to a battered mother who would otherwise be unable to attend.
 Details will be emailed to confirmed attendees.

Updated Conference Schedule       Presenters       Online Registration       Announcement, Brochure, & Mail-In Registration
Home      Co-Sponsors      Support the Conference      Seminar Materials      Silent Auction
    The Conference in PBS' Film:  Breaking the Silence, Children's Stories      The Courageous Kids Network
 Add your child's hand prints to the Children Taken by the Family Courts Hand Prints Project
Contribute a panel to the "Children Taken by the Family Courts Community Quilt"
 Center for Judicial Excellence: Family Court Crisis Film and Photo Exhibit
 Disclaimers and Terms of Use      About the Conference
Now Available:  Domestic Violence, Abuse, and Child Custody:  Legal Strategies and Policy Issues
 Edited by Mo Therese Hannah, Ph.D. and Barry Goldstein, J.D.

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