Purpose of Meeting
Presenter: Sarah Mervine, Attorney, Director of the Center for Children’s Advocacy
Attorney Mervine is the Director of the Center for Children’s Advocacy Yale-New Haven Health Medical Legal Partnership. In her role at Yale, Attorney Mervine works with pediatrics throughout the YNHH system assisting patients and their families with legal needs in housing, education, disability discrimination, benefit denials, and guardianships. She was a staff attorney in the Housing Unit of New Haven Legal Assistance Association, an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and a staff attorney and Skadden Fellow at Chicago Legal Aid focusing on housing.
Program: This program will highlight some of the truths of housing rights and housing stock in America, including how hard it is to find decent and affordable rental housing, how evictions really happen, how an eviction record can affect a family more than a criminal record, and how children’s health is affected by poor living conditions. It will highlight some innovative programs, laws, and solutions that work to ameliorate these issues.
A Schiller Shoreline Institute for Lifelong Learning event.