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Foundation grantee advocates for rights of children with disabilities
Posted by Jessica Brown on May 16, 2022What started as playing in the pool with his siblings on Memorial Day turned into a life-altering emergency room trip for two-year-old TJ Johnson. After getting accidentally bumped in…
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With support of lawyers, foster children bloom into successful adults
Posted by Jessica Brown on May 6, 2019Nikki S. Weisburd, left, a senior attorney with Dade Legal Aid, spent years advocating for Michelle Charles,…
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Keeping children with disabilities out of the school-to-prison pipeline
Posted by The Florida Bar Foundation on May 17, 2018For almost five years, Ebony Townsend’s school failed…
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Keeping children with disabilities out of the school-to-jail pipeline
Posted by The Florida Bar Foundation on March 13, 2018By the time she was 10, Ebony Townsend had been…
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Miami pro bono attorney works to reunite teen with his aunt
Posted by TheFloridaBarFoundation on October 24, 2016By Rayven Wright After his parents lost their parental rights, “Jake,” 15, began the battle to find…
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Family Law Section gives its third $75,000 gift to The Florida Bar Foundation
Posted by TheFloridaBarFoundation on March 21, 2016Florida Bar Foundation President Donny MacKenzie, left, and CEO Bruce Blackwell, right, accept a $75,000 check…
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Foundation-funded project protects the rights of chronically ill children to specialty care
Posted by TheFloridaBarFoundation on March 21, 2016Alex Rodriguez, 11, was one of five petitioners in a rule challenge brought by the Florida State University…
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A long legal road leads to a permanent home for Brittney
Posted by Jessica Brown on November 1, 2015Brittney Carroll, 11, smiles broadly…
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Support of Bar members critical to success of children’s projects
Posted by Jessica Brown on August 1, 2014Trenton Miller, 18, is headed to college this fall thanks largely to help he received from Attorney…
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Batchelor Foundation gift supports Miami Law’s advocacy for foster youth
Posted by Jessica Brown on March 1, 2014“Stephanie Davis” is pursuing her dream of attending art school in New York City thanks in large…
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Florida foster youth shine at the Capitol
Posted by Jessica Brown on November 1, 2013Manushka Gilet, second from left, and other members of Florida Youth SHINE talk with Rochelle Koff of the…
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Children’s legal services projects in dire need of funding
Posted by Jessica Brown on August 7, 2013A single mother waiting tables in Daytona Beach, Michelle Gonska rarely saw two days go by without getting a call from her first-grader’s…
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