Caitlin Prior Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Draft and execute powers of attorney, living wills, and wills for low-income clients.Draft divorce petitions and related memoranda.Provide legal advice, counsel, and representation to clients with family law and/or estate planning needs.Oversee and coordinate LCD’s Community Legal Outreach Clinics (CLOCs), free legal clinics designed to bring free legal resources into communities by connecting legal volunteers to Philadelphia non-profit sites.Form partnerships with local law firms and non-profit organizations.Train legal volunteers on estate planning, trauma-informed interviewing, and disability.

New York, New York

Researched, developed, and conducted more than 100 trainings and webinars on dating abuse among youth. Trained over 2,000 youth-serving professionals.Created and conducted a train-the-trainer on technology abuse for NYC’s Mayor’s Office to Combat Domestic Violence. This included developing a comprehensive step-by-step training manual.Provided trauma-informed legal services to survivors aged 24 and under in family court, immigration, and administrative proceedings. Engaged in survivor-driven safety planning.Advocated for youth's rights to stakeholders in court, law enforcement, social services, and schools. Researched and drafted petitions, advocacy letters, and legal memoranda on behalf of clients. Supervised the community education and training team.Supported supervisees in fulfilling their diverse grant requirements. Provided/received constructive and supportive feedback. Advocated internally for equitable access to opportunity for my supervisees. Established the NY Network to End Dating Abuse, a statewide coalition of over 30 stakeholders dedicated to ending dating abuse among youth. Led the network and chaired the steering committee.Advocated to the Governor’s Office, state and national legislators, state coalitions, and education unions for passing funded, incremental, and age-appropriate K-12 healthy relationship education legislation in New York.Researched and drafted white papers on healthy relationship legislation. Promoted youth-informed viewpoints during varied coalition meetings with diverse stakeholders.

Brooklyn, New York

Regularly appeared in Brooklyn Family Court, representing children & young people in custody, visitation, guardianship, family offense, paternity and related child protective proceedings.Drafted legal memoranda. Engaged in oral arguments.Interviewed litigants, collaterals, and children/youth.Cross-examined lay and expert witnesses.Presented the direct testimony of lay and expert witnesses. Mediated settlements.Collaborated with social workers and outside resources to support clients.

Queens, New York

Educated pro se litigants in Queens County Family Court as to legal procedures and their rights in custody and visitation, child support, paternity and family offense proceedings.Conducted one-on-one strategy sessions with litigants in child support cases.Referred litigants to supportive services in the community

New York, Ny

Supervised the youth-led Foster Youth Peer Educator group.Advocated for young people in New York City agencies.Supported a caseload of youth clients facing family law issues.Appeared under supervision in family court proceedings.Drafted attorney letters, memoranda, affidavits and motions.Assembled and filed Special Immigrant Juvenile Status applications.

New York, New York

Advocated for low-income transgender and gender non-conforming clients.Engaged in letter, phone and in-person advocacy for incarcerated clients.

Baltimore, Maryland

Supported a caseload of out-of-school young people between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one.Organized and conducted in-house extracurricular and life skills programs for youth.Developed and coordinated weekly center orientation sessions for incoming youth.Referred youth to on-site and community educational and employment services. Encouraged young people in their quest to achieve their educational and employment goals.Created a breakfast program.Maintained regular contact with youth on my caseload through home visits, phone calls, and letters.

B.A., Political Science; Women, Gender And Sexuality & Africana Studies

Activities and Societies: Johns Hopkins Tutorial Project, Students for Choice, Baltimore Civics Initiative, College DemocratsSummer 2003.

Juris Doctor, Cum Laude, Family Law

Activities and Societies: Law Review, Uncontested Divorce Project, Diane Abbey Center for Children and Families, Family Justice.

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