The Children's Law Center
Brooke Prendergast, LMSW, currently serves as a Staff Social Worker at The Children's Law Center since October 2019. Previously, Brooke worked as a Social Worker at Brooklyn Defender Services from September 2018 to August 2019, providing advocacy, crisis management, and client preparation for court-mandated programs. Brooke's early experience includes a competitive internship that focused on strengths-based client advocacy while pursuing a Master of Social Work at Columbia University. Additionally, a Clinical Social Work Internship at Partnership with Children involved providing trauma-informed counseling and conducting psychosocial assessments. Brooke holds a Master of Social Work from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts in Communication with a minor in Sociology from Loyola University Maryland, as well as experience studying at Newcastle University.
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The Children's Law Center
The mission of The Children’s Law Center ("CLC") is to provide children with a strong and effective voice in legal proceedings that have a critical impact on children’s lives. CLC represents children in custody/visitation, guardianship, domestic violence and connected child protective cases. At CLC, our core values are: • to provide high quality representation; • to provide children with supportive, informed and passionate advocates who give voice to their unique needs Our Client Values are: • Communicate our client’s voice • High quality representation • Integrate legal representation with social work • Listen to our clients • Develop the client’s sense of participation How Can I Help? The most direct and immediate way to help the children we represent at CLC is to provide financial support so that our attorneys and social workers can continue their vital work on critical issues that impact the lives of thousands of children involved in the court system. Contested custody, visitation and guardianship cases can be extremely traumatic for a child. Due to the elimination, or lack of availability of critical therapeutic and parenting services, and an overburdened Family Court, CLC’s clients benefit from our advocacy more than ever before. To learn how you can help CLC achieve it's mission please go to http://www.clcny.org/?page_id=6