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Children’s Law Center director Liberty Aldrich: more than 8,000 children served in 2025 as group pushes for 'children’s voice' in Bronx courts
Summary
On Bronx Talk, Liberty Aldrich, executive director of the Children's Law Center, said the organization served more than 8,000 children in 2025 and described courtroom and community work—including social-work supports, fellowship programs, and litigation—to give children a voice in family-court proceedings in The Bronx and beyond.
Liberty Aldrich, executive director of the Children's Law Center and a retired judge, told Bronx Talk listeners that the nonprofit ‘‘served more than 8,000 children in 2025 across the city’’ and that the center now serves more children in The Bronx than in any other borough. The organization represents children in family-court matters such as custody, guardianship, domestic violence, abuse and neglect, and immigration-related cases and combines legal work with social services to support each child.
The comments came during an interview about the center’s nearly 30 years of work advocating for children's participation in court. Aldrich said the center was founded by three women — one of them former Chief Judge Kaye — to fill a gap in legal services for young people and that the group…
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