Children's Legal Rights Journal - Spring 2013

Improving Our Child Welfare System
youth-sensitive asylum process.

31 Maria Woltjen, J.D., is Director of The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s
Rights and a Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Maria
Woltjen, U. CHI. L. SCH., http://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/woltjen (last visited
Feb. 15, 2013).
32 Jeannie Ortega-Piron, J.D., is Deputy Director of the Illinois Department of
Children and Family Services Office of the Guardian, Guardian and Advocacy
Department. ILL. DEP’T CHILD. & FAM. SERVS. MGMT. BIOS (Mar. 2013),
http://www.state.il.us/dcfs/library/management_bio.htm.
33 Julie Sollinger, J.D., is a Supervising Attorney with the Office of the Cook
County Public Guardian in Chicago, Illinois.
34 See CHILD WELFARE INFO. GATEWAY, SITE VISIT REPORT: CULTURALLY
RESPONSIVE CHILD WELFARE PRACTICE WITH LATINO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: A
CHILD WELFARE STAFF TRAINING MODEL (2008),
https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/site_visit/illinoisfinal.pdf. This Memorandum
has been hailed as an exemplary model for other jurisdictions. See also Sample
Forms from Public Child Welfare Agencies, Including MOUs with the Mexican
Consulate, FAM. TO FAM. CAL., http://www.f2f.ca.gov/sampleMOUs.htm (last
visited Feb. 15, 2013) (providing sample forms and MOUs used by various
California counties for working with the Mexican Consulate on appropriate child
welfare cases).
35 Children’s Legal Rights Journal, CHILD. LEGAL RTS. J.,
http://www.luc.edu/law/student/publications/clrj/ (last visited Mar. 20, 2013).

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