Hi Don,

Some jurisdictions have attorneys in private practice who represent children and are NACC Child Welfare Law Specialists. Presumably, attorneys who are NACC-certified, have training and experience that would make their representation more like the QIC Child Rep Model than non-certified attorneys. Even if the certified attorneys aren't able to fully implement best practices, they may not want to be randomly selected to provide representation in a control group (because they know what best practice looks like). If this is true, are NACC-certified attorneys ineligible to be included in the study sample if they are unwilling to agree to the possibility of being asked to represent children in the control group?

thanks!
-Karen

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Karen Worthington, JD
Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Consultant

Hi Karen,

Hope you are well and enjoying your new life in Hawaii.

NACC Child Welfare Law Specialists (CWLS), like any other lawyer in partner site would be randomly assigned to our comparison or experimental group. We would not make special arrangement for them and would ask them to continue representing children in the way they ordinarily do.

Don