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Summer 2007 Employers

Legal Aid Bureau, Inc.: Migrant Farmworker Division, Baltimore, MD
http://www.mdlab.org/Home%20Page

ACLU of Maryland: Baltimore, MD
http://www.aclu-md.org/

Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service: Baltimore, MD
http://www.mvlslaw.org/

Health Education Resource Organization: Baltimore, MD
http://www.hero-mcrc.org/

The Public Justice Center: Baltimore, MD
http://www.publicjustice.org/

The Family Crisis Center of Baltimore County, Inc.: Baltimore, MD
http://www.familycrisiscenter.net/

Office of the Public Defender: Baltimore, MD
http://www.opd.state.md.us/

Cleanup Coalition: Baltimore, MD
Contact: Terry Harris
Phone: 410.576.0800
Email: tjharris@abs.net

Catholic Charities: Immigration Legal Services, Baltimore, MD
http://www.catholiccharities-md.org

Maryland Disability Law Center: Baltimore, MD
http://www.mdlcbalto.org/
Grantee: Veronica Berruz
For my biggest project, I followed up on concerns of juveniles living in Residential Treatment Centers (RTCs) and filed complaints on their behalf to Maryland’s Office of Health Care Quality (OHCQ). In response to my complaints, OHCQ found some deficiencies in the facilities and required that they make changes to their policies or practices to be in compliance with federal and state law. Another of my projects involved assisting a MDLC attorney with Rights Trainings at RTCs. These trainings were aimed at the juveniles to inform them of their legal rights while living in a treatment facility. In many of the RTCs we visited, the juveniles were excited to learn about their rights and were thankful to know that they could contact MDLC if they faced any problems. From my work on the RTCs, I learned about state and federal laws concerning patients of these facilities, as well as the function and organization of some of the state agencies charged with regulating and monitoring these facilities.

Community Law Center: Baltimore, MD
http://www.communitylaw.org/
Grantee: Robin Jacobs
My experience this summer was amazing. I helped community associations and nonprofits on a variety of legal issues and saw how the law can work as a tool to solve people's problems.

Potomac Conservatory: Silver Spring, MD

Office of Public Defender: Upper Marlboro, MD
http://www.co.pg.md.us/Government/JudicialBranch/publicdefender.asp

National Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: Washington, DC
http://www.lawyerscommittee.org/2005website/home/home.html

The Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia: Washington, DC
http://www.pdsdc.org/AboutUs/index.asp

Fulton County Juvenile Court Child Advocate Office: Atlanta, GA
http://ww2.co.fulton.ga.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=5&id=46&Itemid=343

Common Ground Relief: New Orleans, LA
http://www.commongroundrelief.org/

Greater Pine Island Civic Association, Inc.: St. James, FL
http://www.gpica.org/
Grantee: Patience Burke
I worked on land use issues in southwest Florida. My job was to assist a local civic group in determining ways to make its land use plan more environmentally protective. It is interesting working at the local level. You get to see how closely one interacts with all the key players (county commissioners, county attorneys, regulatory agencies, good guys, bad guys, the in-between...), and you get a close-up take on the "work group" phenomenon we're told about. It gave me a broader perspective of how things work, how many interests are involved, and how important it is to know how to compromise and to whom. Despite how distant it seems when we're reading cases in school, these issues involve real people, clients, attorneys, judges, secretaries, citizens, and more. Getting things done goes beyond understanding the law, but understanding people and what decisions they (individually speaking) are capable of making.

Center for Community Solutions: San Diego, CA
http://www.ccssd.org/

Tobacco Free Initiative: World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
http://www.who.int/tobacco/en/

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