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Thursday May 12
2016
 Representing Clients with Intellectual Disabilities in Article 10 and Termination of Parental Rights

This workshop will analyze best practices for representing clients with intellectual disabilities in Family Court in Article 10 and Termination of Parental Rights cases.  We will examine the American with Disabilities Act in the context of child welfare cases,  including filing motions for reasonable efforts and accommodations in these cases. We will  discuss what type of accommodations can be requested and the limits of available services. We will look at the standard of neglect and the case law on when intellectual disability constitutes neglect and the standard for terminating rights based on "mental retardation" under SSL 384-b.  Finally, we will also look at how to challenge improper evaluations and how to get appropriate evaluations including IQ testing and parenting capacity.   

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  • When
    Thursday, May 12, 2016
    9:30 am - 12:30 pm
  • Location
    Legal Services NYC - Central
    40 Worth St., 6th floor
    New York, NY 10013
  • CLE Credits
    Ethics and Professionalism: 0.50
    Skills: 1.00
    Areas of Professional Practice: 1.50
  • Format
    Traditional Live Classroom
  • Practice Area(s)
    Family
  • Price: $120

About the Faculty

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    Rick Barinbaum (Speaker)

    Rick Barinbaum, LMSW, Queens Social Work Co-Director, has been advocating for families in a variety of capacities for the last 14 years. He worked as a youth care worker at a residential treatment program in Phoenix, Arizona, and a coordinator for an Employment and Family law clinic in Washington, DC. He's worked as a Care Coordinator, Conference Facilitator, and Trainer/Consultant for the Mental Health Association of New York City for an initiative that worked to keep children affected by mental illness at home with their parents. Mr. Barinbaum joined CFR in 2007, has been a Social Work Supervisor since September of 2011, and has worked in Queens and Manhattan. He directly supervises social work, family advocate and parent advocate staff. Mr. Barinbaum frequently conducts in-service trainings at CFR on Team Communication, Mental Health Evaluation and Treatment, the Role of the Social Worker and Time Management. He has conducted trainings and presentations for a variety of community based agencies, mental health organizations and legal practitioners on parent advocacy in a child welfare context. He has also been active in citywide workgroups around mental health reform. Mr. Barinbaum received his Masters from the Hunter College School of Social Work where he was a Child Welfare Fund Fellow, and then adjunct professor teaching social welfare policy.
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    Natalie Chin (Speaker)

    Natalie M. Chin is as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Law at Brooklyn Law School and Faculty Director of the Disability and Civil Rights Clinic: Advocating for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. The Disability and Civil Rights Clinic works to protect and advance the rights of low-income adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities through direct legal services, public policy reform and community education. Professor Chin was previously a Clinical Teaching Fellow in the Guardianship Clinic at Cardozo School of Law, where she taught a seminar on Article 81 Guardianship law and its intersection with housing rights, public benefits, and disability rights and supervised law students representing clients in all aspects of guardianship and related proceedings in state and federal court. Prior to her teaching career, Professor Chin served as a staff attorney at Lambda Legal, where she litigated cases and led education and policy reform efforts to achieve equal rights for LGBT people and individuals living with HIV. Professor Chin's scholarship focuses on discrimination and disability rights with articles published in Aging Today and the Clearinghouse Review: Journal of Poverty Law and Policy. The Disability and Civil Rights Clinic has been highlighted in the New York Law Journal. Professor Chin graduated from The George Washington University School of Law in 2004.
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    Gabriel Freiman (Speaker)

    Gabe joined the Family Defense Practice in 2007, and has been a supervising attorney since 2012. Gabe graduated from New York University School of Law magna cum laude and Order of the Coif in 2006. At NYU, Gabe was a Root-Tilden-Kern and Sinsheimer Service Scholar. He was also a Senior Articles Editor for the NYU Review of Law and Social Change. His participation in NYU's Family Defense Clinic earned him the Ann Petluck Poses prize for outstanding work in a clinical practice. Gabe also received the New York State Bar Association Award for outstanding work in legal ethics. After law school, Gabe clerked for the Honorable Jon D. Levy of the Maine Supreme Court. Prior to law school, Gabe worked as an advocate for the Urban Justice Center's Mental Health Project. Gabe received his BA in Religious Studies, cum laude, from Yale University in 2002.
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    Alexandra Rosin (Speaker)

    Alexandra (Sandy) Rosin, Litigation Supervisor, joined the Center for Family Representation as a staff attorney in December of 2007, and has worked in both CFR's Manhattan and Queens offices. She is the co-author, with Rebecca Horwitz, Esq., and Chloe Junge, LMSW, of “Presentment vs. Protection: When Youths in Foster Care Become Respondents in Child Welfare Proceedings,” published in the January-February 2012 edition of the Shriver Center's Clearinghouse Review: Journal of Poverty Law and Policy. Sandy received her J.D. in May 2006 from Fordham University School of Law where she was a Stein Scholar in Public Interest Law and Ethics. During law school, Sandy interned at South Brooklyn Legal Services in the Family Law Unit, Children's Rights, and the U.S. Department of Justice Executive Office of Immigration Review. Following graduation, she clerked for the Honorable Susan K. Gauvey, United States Magistrate Judge for the District of Maryland, Baltimore. Sandy graduated in 1991 from Northwestern University with a B.A. in Art History and, prior to law school, worked for many years in the field of ethnographic art books.
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    Lauren Teichner (Speaker)

    Lauren received her J.D. degree magna cum laude from American University Washington College of Law in 2008, where she was a staff member of the American University Law Review, a member of the executive board of the Women's Law Association, a student attorney in the Criminal Defense Clinic, and received the Dean's Award for Professional Responsibility-Outstanding Student in the Clinical Program. She interned in many offices during law school, including the Office of the Public Defender in Alexandria, Virginia, the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, and the chambers of the Honorable Richard J. Leon on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Upon graduation, Lauren worked as a Litigation Associate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP before joining the Bronx Defenders. Lauren also holds a Masters in Gender Studies and Social Policy from the London School of Economics, and an A.B. in Religion and Gender Studies from Princeton University.