SPECIAL PROJECTS
NHLA responds to the emerging needs of clients with new projects and efforts, often in collaboration with other organizations in the state.
Children's Dental Health
Youth Law
Children's Dental Health
NHLA is monitoring our State's compliance with a federal class action consent decree entered in 2004 to improve the Medicaid dental program for children. Contact: Kay Drought 1-800-334-3135, extension 2503.
Youth Law Project
The Youth Law Project (YLP) works with children and teenagers who are facing delinquency or CHINS petitions, as well as those who are at-risk of having such petitions filed against them. The YLP seeks to get these young people the educational, health, mental health, and other services necessary to stay in their homes and communities and out of the juvenile justice system. The type of work the YLP does includes representation at school disciplinary hearings and special education meetings and proceedings. The YLP does not provide representation in delinquency or CHINS cases, but works closely with the public defenders and court-appointed counsel who do to determine how best to meet the youth’s needs.
Funders
Endowment for Health
N.H. Bar Foundation
Pamphlets
Youth Discipline
A "Know Your Rights" brochure for students and their parents/guardians on school discipline in New Hampshire schools.

