Foundations of Child Welfare Law and Practice is NACC’s signature training, designed to provide a comprehensive overview of child welfare law and practice, and to help attorneys prepare for the...

NACC trains attorneys who represent children, parents, or agencies in child welfare law proceedings.
Legal professionals must know and follow federal and state child welfare law, understand trauma and systemic racism, protect children’s and parents’ rights, ensure clients’ voices are heard, overcome bias, provide zealous representation, and pursue justice. They need to be well-versed, well-resourced, and well-trained. NACC delivers legal training in-person across the country and online.

NACC’s delivers its signature Foundations of Child Welfare Law & Practice Training in three formats: Asynchronous Online, Live Online, and In-Person as a Pre-Conference event.

NACC offers high-quality training courses to child welfare law professionals around the country.

NACC works with states and local jurisdictions to customize trainings that cover federal and state law and support high-quality legal representation for children, parents, and agencies.
Training Materials
The QIC ChildRep Training is a two day training to advance best practice models identified by the National Quality Improvement Center on the Representation of Children in the Child Welfare System project from 2009 to 2016. The agenda and materials from this training are available for public use. For assistance facilitating or providing this training, please contact us.
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Join the NACC Community! NACC provides training and resources to attorneys, advocates, and professionals who work in child welfare law. NACC also works to improve the system alongside children and families. NACC promotes excellence, builds community, and advances justice.
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