When My Child is Disciplined at School; a Guide for Families
As part of its continuing focus on effective parental involvement to benefit students and schools, Georgia Appleseed is pleased to offer its new handbook, When My Child is Disciplined at School; a Guide for Families. The guidebook, available online here, is intended as a tool to help parents and guardians thorughout Georgia to become informed advocates for their children when dealing with school discipline policies.
Heir Property in Georgia
The Young Professionals Council (YPC) of Georgia Appleseed is proud to release its new handbook, Heir Property in Georgia. Produced by YPC in conjunction with the UGA School of Law Cousins Public Interest Fellowship, the manual provides a concise overview of issues affecting heir property owners in Georgia.
Download Heir Property in Georgia here or request a print copy from Georgia Appleseed.
Georgia Appleseed is actively seeking volunteers for the YPC Heir Property project, including legal research, case study development, and training to assist heir property owners. Learn more here.
Good Apple Award Dinner Honors Two Award Recipients
The Good Apple Award Dinner took place April 16 at the Park Tavern Garden Tent at Piedmont Park. Teri P. McClure, UPS Senior Vice President and General Counsel, and Frank S. Alexander, Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law, were honored.
The Good Apple Award recognizes distinguished pro bono leadership that exemplifies the values and goals expressed in Georgia Appleseed’s mission, seeks to effect change by addressing difficult social justice problems with systemic solutions, and levels the playing field for children, the poor and the marginalized.
New Video Release! "It Takes a Parent: Strengthening Effective Parent Involvement" Workshop
To expand our capacity to reach a broader audience, Georgia Appleseed partnered with Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) to produce a 40-minute training video "It Takes a Parent: Strengthening Effective Parent Involvement" based on the content of our highly regarded "Parent Involvement Under No Child Left Behind (NCLB)" workshops.
- Arrange a facilitated workshop. The video’s most beneficial application is within a facilitated presentation for parents and educators. Contact Georgia PIRC (Parent Information Resource Center) for information on how to arrange a facilitated workshop.
- To view "It Takes a Parent" workshop video online, click here.
- To obtain a free copy of the training video (& a promotional video about it), click here.
Excite your PTA, School Council and other important audiences about this workshop opportunity. Click here to view the 5-minute promotional video and learn what top Georgia education leaders have to say about the value of the workshop video. To obtain a copy, click here.
Just Released!
Common Wisdom: Making the Case for a New Georgia Juvenile Code
As part of JUSTGeorgia's goal to realize a new Juvenile Code and improved related social service systems for children and families in Georgia, Georgia Appleseed assumed the task of gathering the "common wisdom" of Georgians throughout the state willing to share their own ideas and opinions about our current juvenile code. They were asked what works, what does not work, and their specific ideas about how they would fix the problems.
Drawing upon its expertise in research and dissemination of findings, Georgia Appleseed recruited thirteen lead law firms to field teams of lawyers and other professionals to take on the huge task of gathering stakeholder input from each of the ten Judicial Districts within the State of Georgia.
More than 300 interviews and 6,500 pro bono hours later, Georgia Appleseed is pleased to share its findings, Common Wisdom: Making the Case for a New Georgia Juvenile Code, in a comprehensive Statewide Summary Report and ten Judicial District Reports. An Executive Summary is also available.
The ideas and recommendations summarized in these reports are intended to provide meaningful, on-the-ground feedback to help inform an insightful new code to govern the handling of deprivation and delinquency, and to assist children in need of services in resuming the path to become productive citizens.
Click here to access the Common Wisdom Reports:
- Statewide Summary
- Executive Summary
- Judicial District Reports
Seeds of Justice Newsletter! Exclusively Online!
• Young Professionals Council Launches
• UGA Law Cousins Fellowship Received
• Welcome to Our New Board Members
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