This important project addresses the legal issues that low-income families experience when their children face serious medical needs.

        Children living in poverty often face social and economic problems that have a great impact on their health and development but fall outside the influence of even the most advocacy-minded health-care provider.  Sub-standard housing, lack of health insurance, denial of needed income or nutritional benefits, lack of access to special education services, and immigration issues all can negatively impact a child's health.

        Despite laws designed to ensure that the poor have access to the services they need, low-income families are often denied access by government bureaucracies, school officials and landlords.  This project addresses the varied legal issues that families face when their children face medical needs. 

        The primary parties of this major partnership include:

• Children's Hospital
• Harborview Medical Center,
• The Northwest Justice Project
• The King County Bar Association
• Columbia Legal Services
• Foster Pepper PLLC
• Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
• and Washington Appleseed.