Joette Katz

January 11, 2016 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The critical challenges of poverty and substance abuse, the importance of the community in shaping child welfare services, racial disproportionality in the system, the changing response of the system to LGBT issues, and services to ameliorate the difficulties of youth leaving the system are all grist for the mill when speaking about the work of a child welfare agency, and court cases reflect many of these challenges.

By JOETTE KATZ

6 minute read

January 11, 2016 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The critical challenges of poverty and substance abuse, the importance of the community in shaping child welfare services, racial disproportionality in the system, the changing response of the system to LGBT issues, and services to ameliorate the difficulties of youth leaving the system are all grist for the mill when speaking about the work of a child welfare agency, and court cases reflect many of these challenges.

By JOETTE KATZ

6 minute read

March 18, 2009 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The Client Security Fund committee's ability to continue to pay the full amount of claims filed, and to make victims whole, will be jeopardized by recent actions taken by the governor and legislature as part of the recently passed deficit mitigation bill. That bill would transfer $2 million from the Client Security Fund to the state's general fund, in spite of the specific purposes for which payments to the fund have been collected over the past 10 years.

By JOETTE KATZ

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