July-August 2009 Clearinghouse Review

As foreclosures, health care reform negotiations, unemployment rate increases, and deliberations about a "postracial" America continue, many low-income families are hungry, losing their jobs, homes, or public benefits, and making do with inadequate health care and job training. This issue of Clearinghouse Review offers innovative strategies and valuable information on serving clients in need. Topics covered in this issue include foreclosure defense, employment for people with disabilities, services for youths leaving foster care, asset-building strategies for victims of domestic violence, and more.

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January-February 2009 Clearinghouse Review

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March-April 2009 Clearinghouse Review

Topics covered in this issue include strategies to stop the school-to-prison pipeline, ensuring education stability for homeless children, working with coalitions to improve access for limited-English proficient clients, hospice care for low-income clients, and anti-foreclosure strategies pursued by advocates in Minnesota.

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May-June 2009 Clearinghouse Review

The lead article in this issue highlights a model program to remove legal barriers to employment that low-income clients frequently encounter and that the Bay Area Legal Aid's public benefits unit developed ten years ago. Other job-related challenges are described in an article on improving state driver's licensing laws and in another on applying community economic development practice to help youths create their own jobs. Other articles discuss a new juvenile behavioral health court for youths whose delinquent behavior is traceable to a mental health condition; older women of color and regulations on the self-directed option fo delivery of Medicaid personal care services; and tips for vigorous representation of undocumented victims of domestic violence in state family court.

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November-December 2009 Clearinghouse Review

This year's federal court access article, the seventeeth in a series dating back to 1993, asserts that the Court's decisions this term demonstrate its now well-established tendency to favor the government and business over the individual and the environment. Other articles in this issue explain how the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act can be a helpful guide for advocates of domestic-violence survivors, discuss the pros and cons of foreclosure mediations, and show how government-sponsored Universal Voluntary Retirement Accounts can provide retirement security for workers who otherwise would have none. 

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September-October 2009 Clearinghouse Review

This special issue of Clearinghouse Review is devoted to legal topics affecting current and former members of the U.S. armed forces and their families. Topics include appointment practice under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, issues raised by military service in the context of family law cases, special considerations when representing military veteran clients, immigration issues faced by servicemembers, special employment protections for servicemembers, and establishing a successful veterans benefits project.

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