Job Description
Children's Law Center is seeking candidates for the 2027 spring term. T his position is available to candidates as a hybrid role. Hybrid roles have some expectation of work in-person at Children's Law Center's office in Washington, DC. The deadline to apply is Friday, November 13th, 2026.
Who We Are
Children’s Law Center is a mission-driven organization focused on providing high-quality legal services to children and families in DC. As an organization, we envision a world in which all children have a strong foundation of family, health and education and are free from poverty, trauma, racism and other forms of oppression. Our mission is to do this work together with DC children and families, Children’s Law Center uses the law to solve children’s urgent problems today, improve the systems that will affect their lives tomorrow and strengthen our community so that change endures. A key part of our mission is to challenge and reduce ways in which racism and other biases – structural and interpersonal – prevent each of us, our organization and the systems in which we work from providing children a strong foundation from which to thrive.
Our greatest assets are our people. We recognize that people with diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives fuel our ability to provide the best outcomes for our clients and our community. Staff members at Children’s Law Center advance the organization’s mission through their leadership, result-oriented mindset and commitment to cultural humility. We are looking for individuals who like to be challenged to grow both personally and professionally and value the opportunity to make a difference in their community. Children's Law Center's continued success depends on recruiting and retaining individuals who possess and exemplify these attributes.
Program Description
Children’s Law Center (CLC) hosts a comprehensive, hands-on internship program. Law clerk and intern positions are available during spring, summer and fall semesters. Law clerk applicants must be current law students or recent law school graduates. All positions are unpaid and can be taken for credit. Hours are flexible. Generally, spring openings are posted in October, summer positions are posted in November and fall openings are posted in May.
Children’s Law Center’s Policy Program works with the Mayor, District Agencies and the DC Council to develop citywide recommendations that ensure local policies, legislation, funding and programs meet the needs of all District children.
Position Summary
The Policy Program seeks Master of Public Health, Master of Public Policy or Master of Social Work (with an interest in macro social work) students for an internship position. This internship offers students: the opportunity to engage in important oversight activities related to local agencies’ performance and budget; exposure to legislative processes such as lobbying and observation of hearings at the Council; analysis, research and writing to support CLC policy positions in a variety of forums; and more.
Interns may have a broad range of responsibilities including, but not limited to, research, literature review and writing about health policy issues, attending external meetings, attending the DC Council’s legislative meetings and committee hearings and assisting with the drafting of memos and written testimony. This position will primarily support work related to recommendations from “A Path Forward: Transforming the Public Behavioral Health System for Children, Youth, and their Families in the District of Columbia” ( Summer projects will include policy research and writing related to behavioral health care for children and adolescents, including youth experiencing homelessness and those involved in the foster care system.
Internship positions are unpaid and can be taken for credit or practicum hours. The Public Health Policy Intern position will be supervised by members of the Policy Team. Requirements and qualifications include: excellent analytical ability, strong oral and written communication skills, understanding of the health care delivery and payment systems, commitment to working in support of low-income and marginalized populations and willingness and enthusiasm to complete all tasks. Previous knowledge of mental and behavioral health is helpful, but not required.
Application Instructions
Children's Law Center is seeking candidates for the 2027 spring term. T his position is available to candidates as a hybrid role. Hybrid roles have some expectation of work in-person at Children's Law Center's office in Washington, DC. The deadline to apply is Friday, November 13th, 2026
To apply, please submit a resume and cover letter as one PDF file via CLC's website: - involved/careers/law -clerks-and-interns/
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