Detroit Center for Family Advocacy

The Detroit Center for Family Advocacy (CFA) provides legal advocacy and social work services to low-income families to prevent the unnecessary placement and prolonged stay of children in foster care.  By doing so, the CFA aims to keep children safe with their families, minimize the emotional trauma caused by removal, and allow the foster care system to focus its resources on children who need its protection.

The CFA:

    * Empowers parents and extended families to care for their own children
    * Captures lessons from direct service and applies them to system reform
    * Provides a site for learning, practical application of knowledge, and community-based research for University of Michigan students and faculty


Family Permanency Project Referral Criteria:

* Expanded zip code areas (outside of 48205/34)
* Permancy goal is not reunification
* Identified relative, foster parent, or fictive kin exists
* Legal representation of relative, foster parent or fictive kin is required to stabilize the placement


Possible Areas of CFA Advocacy:

* Guardianship
* Adoption
* Divorce
* Interstate Proceedings

 

Contact:

Main Office
3031 W. Grand Blvd
Suite 440
Detroit, MI 48202

Osborn Office
Matrix Human Services Center
13560 East McNichols
Detroit, MI 48205

Phone: (313) 875-4233
Fax: (313) 875-4313
E-Mail:  lawdetroitcfa@umich.edu
Website: http://www.law.umich.edu/centersandprograms/ccl/cfa/Pages/default.aspx


The CFA is supported by the University of Michigan Law School, Wayne County Child Care Fund, Skillman Foundation, McGregor Fund, Community Foundation of SE Michigan, Bridge Foundation and private donors.

 

Last updated: April 25th, 2011