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#Children and Family Justice Center: Bluhm Legal Clinic, Northwestern University School of Law

Founded in 1992, the Children and Family Justice Center (CFJC) is a comprehensive children's law office and part of the Bluhm Legal Clinic at Northwestern University School of Law. At the CFJC, attorneys and law students work together to promote justice for children, adolescents, and their families through direct legal representation, policy advocacy and law reform.

Providing access to justice for unrepresented youth is a core mission of the CFJC. Each year, CFJC faculty, staff and students represent young people on a wide range of matters, from delinquency to immigration and asylum to cases addressing harsh sentencing practices or the collateral consequences youth face after coming into contact with the law. Oftentimes, the CFJC gives its young clients access to a lawyer when they otherwise would not have one. More.

The Children and Family Justice Center is humbled to announce that we are 1 of 13 winners for the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions in 2013. You can read our story. check out the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's coverage. and take a look at a video about our team's hard work! To make a gift to CFJC, please visit the Support Us page.