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Preventive legal advocacy involves supporting families and promoting the social determinants of health by addressing upstream legal issues that, if left unresolved, can lead to unnecessary reports to the child protection hotline.\u00a0 This meaningful and comprehensive legal advocacy can help to address food, income, and housing insecurity; ensure protection from wrongful denial of government entitlements and benefits; advocate for special education eligibility and other educational needs; and secure protection from intimate partner violence. While advocacy can be on behalf of individual families to address specific issues, it should also include system-level approaches to addressing poverty, systemic racism, and other forms of discrimination and oppression that harm children and families.<\/p>\n

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The unmet legal needs of families directly impact the social and structural determinants of health<\/a>, defined as the environmental conditions in the places where families live, learn, work, and play. Social determinants of health are societal creations: public policies and private choices have influenced, if not directly caused, the adverse community environments in which some children and families live. Chronic poverty, systemic racism, community disruption, violence, and lack of economic mobility have combined to deprive communities of needed resources, giving rise to Adverse Childhood Experiences<\/a> (ACEs).<\/p>\n

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While ACEs may trigger reports to and intervention from the child protection agency, these punitive responses consistently fail to consider the community conditions at the root of the concerns and, as a result, do not result in services and supports to address a family’s need for concrete supports. In contrast, preventive legal advocacy addresses the social and structural determinants of health directly, and builds community resilience in a way that minimizes unnecessary reports to the child protection hotline.<\/p>\n

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Early legal interventions can make a significant difference in the health and well-being of families. Studies show that:<\/p>\n