Jay Sicklick is the Deputy Director of the Center for Children’s Advocacy and has directed the Center’s Medical-Legal Partnership Project (MLPP) since April, 2000, overseeing the growth of the project from its beginnings as the second program of its kind in the United States. The Center’s MLPP is now the largest MLP in New England with partnerships with the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, Yale-New Haven Hospital, St. Francis Hospital and the Yale Child Study Center. Prior to his work with the Center for Children’s Advocacy, Jay was an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at UConn Law School, a senior staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society’s Bronx Neighborhood Office for six years, and a private practitioner in Boston, MA. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Law at UConn School of Law, where he teaches courses in legal ethics and professional responsibility, and Assistant Clinical Professor at UConn School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics. He is the author of Adolescent Health Care: The Legal Rights of Teens and has frequently lectured on medical-legal issues, social determinants of health and the impact of interdisciplinary advocacy on children’s health and well-being.
