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Foster Care
Texas Appleseed and pro bono partner Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. are conducting a statewide study examing current and best practices
in advocating for children in long-term foster care (Permanent Managing Conservatorship).
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School-to-Prison Pipeline
Texas Appleseed has spent the past year examining the School-to-Prison Pipeline in Texas and
researching the link between discretionary application of school discipline policies, school dropout and future involvement
in the justice system. In 2008, we will focus on Juvenile Justice Alternative Programs, the courts and ticketing on school
campuses.
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Texas Youth Commission - Juvenile Justice
As part of our juvenile justice work, Texas Appleseed continues to monitor the treatment of incarcerated youth—and in 2007
successfully teamed with Advocacy Inc. to bring suit against TYC to prevent a dramatic increase in the use of pepper spray to
maintain order in youth facilities.
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Immigrant Access to Financial Institutions
Texas Appleseed is working to address issues of access to financial institutions and low-cost financial services to Latin American
immigrants on multiple fronts: financial literacy, consumer protections in money remittance services, and more.
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Fair Defense Mental Health
Texas Appleseed pursues statutory and other systemic changes to ensure better legal representation for persons with mental illness and
retardation. We provide handbooks and training for attorneys representing these clients, and have worked with different Texas communities
to create innovative models to provide high quality legal services for persons with mental health needs.
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Fair Defense - Juvenile Justice
Texas Appleseed has historically been involved in a range of juvenile justice issues - from helping raise the bar for legal representation
of juveniles, to monitoring their treatment in Texas Youth Commission facilities and to exploring ways to prevent today's school discipline
problems from becoming tomorrow's prison population.
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Fair Defense Act
During 2000 and 2001, the Texas Appleseed Fair Defense Project carried out the most extensive and detailed research ever
conducted into indigent defense practices in Texas. Texas Appleseed’s reporting on this issue helped build a reform movement,
which ultimately resulted in passage of the Fair Defense Act in 2001. This law fundamentally changed the way that lawyers are
appointed to poor people who are accused of crime in Texas.
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Hurricanes Katrina & Rita Projects
In 2005, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated a large swath of the Gulf Coast region, creating a human
services crisis that focused greater attention on existing economic and social injustices. Joining with
our pro bono partners, Texas Appleseed has worked to improve hurricane victims’ access to legal services
and participated in legal challenges to unfair denial of benefits by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
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Promoting Diversity
The Diversity Legal Scholars Program is an initiative of Texas Appleseed in partnership with Kaplan Educational Centers, Inc.
to provide Law School Admissions Texas (LSAT) preparation assistance for minority groups who are underrepresented in Texas law schools.
The program provides full scholarships to attend Kaplan's LSAT Prep course anywhere in Texas.
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No Child Left Behind
Texas Appleseed participates in collaborative projects with other Appleseed Centers across the U.S. —
including this project to anyalyze how school districts across the country are implementing the parent
involvement requiremetns of the No Child Left Behind Act. Texas Appleseed is developing a handbook for parents
to help them better interact with schools around student discipline issues.
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