Child & Family Services Clinic

University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law

 

 

Our Mission

 

The UMKC Child and Family Services Clinic assists the State of Missouri in fulfilling its responsibility to children in foster care.  The clinic provides legal assistance to the state in actions on behalf of these children and trains the next generation of Missouri lawyers to appreciate and competently meet their responsibilities as attorneys appointed in these cases.

 

Faculty

 

Co-directors:  Professors  Mary Kay Kisthardt and Barbara Glesner Fines

 

Clinical director: Clinical Associate Professor Mary Kay O’Malley

 

Clinic Materials (for student access only)