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CFCC News - 2012

  • October and November, 2012 – Truancy Court Program hosted Family Fun Nights

    CFCC’s Truancy Court Program (TCP) hosted a series of events geared exclusively to TCP students and their families. Special TCP lunches and dinners brought TCP families, staff, and school representatives together for pizza and family-friendly activities. Click here for photos from this year’s TCP family events.

  • October, 2012 - The CFCC Student Fellows Bios webpage is active.

    CFCC focuses on its Fall 2012 Student Fellows with a new webpage dedicated to the biographies of law students enrolled in the CFCC Student Fellows Program.

    Continue on to the CFCC Student Fellows Bios page.

  • October 5, 2012 - CFCC’s Director, Professor Barbara Babb, spoke at the Bruce J. Winick Fall 2012 Colloquium: Standards in the Problem Solving Courts, hosted by the University of Miami School of Law

    Professor Babb shared her expertise on therapeutic standards and measures in problem-solving courts. For more information about the colloquium, please visit the University of Miami webpage.

  • September 21 and 28, 2012 – CFCC co-sponsored Family Law trainings with the Maryland Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers

    This two-part program was geared to beginning family law practitioners and provided in-depth information and guidance on a broad spectrum of family law issues, ranging from initial client contact through trial. The program featured judges, masters, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers members, and attorneys from the Family and Juvenile Law Section of the Maryland State Bar Association.

  • September 24, 2012 - Truancy Court Program (TCP) Orientations

    Truancy Court Program (TCP) Orientations took place during the week of September 24, 2012, at 10 TCP schools in Baltimore City and Montgomery County.

  • August 2012 – CFCC Student Fellows Program Begins

    We invite students to register for openings in the Fall 2012 CFCC Student Fellows Program I (Law 888). Students will learn cutting-edge approaches to family law and family justice system reform, including an examination of problem-solving courts. Students also will be actively involved in one of CFCC’s many projects, including its popular Truancy Court Program.

  • July, 2012 - CFCC received a grant of $105,523 from the Maryland Administrative Office of the Courts.

    The Maryland Administrative Office of the Courts has awarded CFCC a grant of $105,523 to support the operation of our Truancy Court Program in Baltimore City. The AOC has funded the TCP since 2007 and has consistently appreciated the preventive power of the TCP to keep children out of the juvenile and child welfare systems and to keep parents out of the criminal justice system due to truancy.

  • CFCC has published the 5th issue of its Truancy Court Program (TCP) E-Newsletter in June 2012.
    This issue features articles on: A holistic approach to truancy, TCP data for the 2011-2012 school year, An interview with TCP Mentor Jana White, A new national report on absenteeism, Features on the 2012 First Lady of Maryland's Reception, the "Battle of the Schools" attendance contest, and the TCP "Kids and Theater" performance.
  • April 12, 2012, 8:30am-5pm, University of Baltimore School of Law Moot Court Room – CFCC hosted its fourth annual Urban Child Symposium, “The Beginning or the End? The Urban Child’s Experience in the Juvenile Justice System.”

  • March 12, 2012 - Professor Barbara Babb spoke about CFCC’s Truancy Court Program and its impact on law students at a national conference, National Leadership Summit on School-Justice Partnerships, on March 12 in New York City. Professor Babb participated in a panel on “Truancy - School Engagement and Re-engagement” with other national experts on school attendance.