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Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth
Advocacy
TCCY provides leadership for advocacy activities on behalf of children and
families.
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TCCY is an integral part of state policy making on child and family
issues and participates on national, state, regional, and local committees,
task forces, and boards for information gathering, sharing, and networking.
Impact statements are prepared and distributed on legislation affecting
families and children.
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TCCY sponsors Children's Advocacy Day annually and
also makes policy recommendations for administrative and legislative
action.
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TCCY's periodic newsletter, The Advocate
provides information on timely children's issues. The
Advocate is distributed to children's advocates, service
providers, juvenile court judges and staff, legislators, policy makers,
and regional council members.
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TCCY publishes the Tennessee Compilation
of Selected Laws on Children, Youth and Families and
disseminates it to juvenile courts, state government staff, and other
children's services professionals. TCCY also prepares reports and
plans for the governor, the Tennessee General Assembly, and the federal
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
The compilation
of laws in the Tennessee Code Annotated is now available on the Internet.
TCCY publishes information about the ongoing legislative session and
distributes a summary of legislative
activities related to children at the end of each session. Information
on
unannotated Tennessee Laws is also available on the Lexis Publishing
site. - TCCY staff make other presentations to TCCY events, legislative committees and other groups.
More information on advocacy activities is available at our advocacy information page.
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