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Join the next session of our “Lunch & Learn” webinar series. Every month, the YJI features the work of prominent researchers in the field of youth justice! The “Lunch & Learn” sessions are designed to be interactive, informative, and thought-provoking. This month, the YJI is continuing the conversation from our last Lunch & Learn webinar with Dr. Vanessa Panfil and has invited Currey Cook, J.D., to further discuss LGBTQ+ youth and policy.
Currey Cook (he/him) is Senior Counsel and Director of the Youth in Out-of-Home Care Project at Lambda Legal, where he advocates on behalf of LGBTQ+ youth in child welfare, juvenile justice settings, and experiencing homelessness. He works at the state and federal level and achieves systemic reform through a mix of litigation, proactive law and policy development, and training for professionals, including child advocates, working with youth in out-of-home care and receiving government-funded services. Prior to his work at Lambda, Cook was an attorney with the Office of Public Advocacy (OPA) for twelve years in Anchorage, Alaska. Cook worked as a juvenile defense attorney and guardian ad litem and later as supervising attorney of OPA’s Child Advocacy Section. In 2009, Cook became the Co-Director of the Bronx office of The Children’s Law Center New York a non-profit law firm representing children in New York City Family Court. Additionally, Cook served as a consultant to The National Juvenile Defender Center in Washington. He is a member of the board of directors for the National Association of Counsel for Children and a member of the American Bar Association’s Children’s Rights Litigation Committee. Cook graduated from the University of Georgia with a journalism degree and attended law school at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia.
Research shows LGBTQ+ youth are over-represented in the juvenile legal system and other public systems of care and too often have harmful experiences while receiving services and have worse outcomes post-system involvement than their cisgender or heterosexual peers. Few localities have implemented concrete measures to reduce over-representation, to connect LGBTQ+ youth to supportive community resources, and to ensure accountability so youth are affirmed and not harmed while in government custody or receiving services. The presentation will focus on highlights of laws and policies from New York and other states, work at the forefront of the issue—including work by young adults with lived experience, and additional steps New Yorkers can take to support LGBTQ+ youth during a time of increased attacks on their right to exist and thrive.
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“Lunch & Learn” sessions are designed to be interactive, informative, and thought-provoking. This month, the YJI is continuing the conversation from our last Lunch & Learn webinar with Dr. Vanessa Panfil and has invited Currey Cook, J.D., to further discuss LGBTQ+ youth and policy.
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