Frank P Cervone

April 15, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer

Despite some deceivingly big numbers in national data reports on pro bono service, the big unspoken secret is that we are not meeting the need, and many who can serve, simply are not.

By Frank P. Cervone

9 minute read

March 19, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Pennsylvania Senate and many in the family law community have been engaged in a heated debate for months on proposed child custody legislation known as "Kayden's Law." At stake is how to make the courts more responsive to the needs of children and more sensitive to the traumatic familial experiences that children may suffer.

By Frank P. Cervone

8 minute read

January 11, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

When I recently visited the border crossing between El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, at the Las Americas Bridge over the Rio Grande, I saw a wholly different reality: two communities so integrated that port-of-entry commuter traffic rivaled Philadelphia's Schuylkill Expressway, and dozens of students chatted warmly as they walked from their high school on the U.S. side to their family homes in Juarez.

By Frank P. Cervone

5 minute read

March 23, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

Slipping through the cracks in the system, a child's story ends in tragedy. A young person lingering in foster care for years, moving from place to place with no permanent home. These are the perceptions of life in the child welfare system in Philadelphia.

By Frank P. Cervone

6 minute read

March 20, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

Slipping through the cracks in the system, a child's story ends in tragedy. A young person lingering in foster care for years, moving from place to place with no permanent home. These are the perceptions of life in the child welfare system in Philadelphia.

By Frank P. Cervone

6 minute read

June 30, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The education crisis of foster youth has started to garner attention from lawmakers. A complex array of federal and state laws provides court-involved youth with substantive and procedural educational entitlements. There is great power in these legal entitlements, but targeted advocacy is needed to transform paper promises into educational opportunities. When foster youth do not receive the educational opportunities they need and deserve, there is frequently no one to speak up on their behalf.

By Frank P. Cervone and Megan Rok

7 minute read

March 26, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Support Center for Child Advocates will celebrate 30 years of service to Philadelphia children with a gala reception on April 26 at the Union League.

By Frank P. Cervone

6 minute read

October 26, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

Consider some children's law cases in the spotlight this month.

By Frank P. Cervone

4 minute read

August 25, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

Our community has been horrified by the death of Danieal Kelly, the child whose family was being served by local child welfare providers.

By Frank P. Cervone

7 minute read

March 25, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

I opened my email at 5 a.m. Saturday — our two dogs forgot we sleep in on the weekend — to find a request for assistance from a longtime Support Center for Child Advocates volunteer attorney, about child siblings of his now-adult client.

By Frank P. Cervone

5 minute read