Maria Woltjen : Presentations
"Best Interests for Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in the United States." Psychology Department, University of Illinois at Chicago, April 2005.
"Report on Guardian ad Litem Program for Unaccompanied and Separated Immigrant Children in the United States." Office of Refugee Resettlement, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC, April 2005.
"Creating a Guardian ad Litem Program for Unaccompanied Immigrant Children." Conferenc on Unaccompanied Immigrant Children, Office of Refugee Resettlement, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC, June 2004.
"Facilitating Community Organizing to Combat Lead Poisoning." National Center for Healthy Housing Conference, New Orleans, LA, May 2003.
"Community Efforts to End Lead Poisoning." National Lead Abatement Action Council Conference, St. Louis, MO, November 2002.
"Community-University Partnerships to Eliminate Lead Poisoning." National Lead Safe Housing and Environmental Health Conference, Washington, DC, June 2002.
"Interface between the Justice System and Adolescent Pregnancy." Plenary Session, Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Conference, Public Health and Education Association Midwest, April 1997.
"Lengthy Pre-Trial Detention of Minors in Appeal Cases." Testimony, State Legislative Committee on Juvenile Justice, February 1995.
"Training the Child Advocate." National Institute of Trial Advocacy, January 1995.
"Advocacy Strategies in Adolescent Health Care." First Annual Statewide Conference on Adolescent Health, American Academy of Pediatrics, November 1994 (panelist).
"Proposed Automatic Transfer Laws." Testimony, Illinois Senate Judiciary Committee, April 1994.
"Public Housing Automatic Transfer Law Overrepresentation of Minorities." Chicago Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division, APril 1994.
"Transfer of Juveniles to Adult Criminal Court." Seventh National Conference on Children and the Law, ABA Center on Children and the Law, Washington, DC, April 1994.
"Proposed Automatic Transfer Laws." Testimony, State of Illinois Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice and Prisoner Review Board, October 1993.
"Transfer of Juveniles Overrepresentation of Minorities in the Juvenile Justice System." Testimony, Solovy Commission, July 1993.
