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Teamchild Details

Agency Name: Teamchild
Address: 715 Tacoma Avenue South
City: Tacoma
State: WA
Zip Code: 98402
Phone Number: (253) 274-9929
Toll Free: (888) 244-5450
Fax: (253) 274-1888
Email: pierceinfo@teamchild.org
Website: https://teamchild.org/
Description: We are tenacious problem solvers with legal expertise in all aspects of the law impacting youth. Our primary areas of practice focus on youth rights to education, healthcare, housing and the intersections between the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. We find out what matters to youth who ask for our help, and our lawyers champion their solutions to overcome the obstacles to their success. We stand with youth. Our legal expertise and training give us a unique vantage point. We see how injustice and inequity are hard-wired into public systems of care. We are driven to shine light where policies and practices allow for disparities and poor outcomes to persist. We are earnest in calling in key stakeholders to dismantle systems that don’t work. We are dedicated to holding space for impacted youth and community to develop and drive the solutions and strategies that replace outdated and ineffective approaches that dehumanize, isolate and damage youth. Our programs include: legal services when youth are in crisis and not receiving the support they need to thrive, training/consulting when proven solutions and approaches are not being used in the field, and policy advcacy when current practices repeatedly and systematically hold young people back.