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Margaret A. Burt, Esq., legal training specialist with the Center for Development of Human Services/Institute for Community Health Promotion (CDHS/ICHP), received the Mark Hardin Award for Child Welfare Legal Scholarship and Systems Change from the American Bar Association’s Center on Children and the Law at its national conference on April 27. The award, named for the center’s longtime director of child welfare, is given to an attorney, law professor, judge, or legislator who has shown achievement and commitment to legal scholarship and systems change in the area of child welfare. Ms. Burt specializes in the areas of child abuse and neglect, permanency for foster children, the termination of parental rights, and adoptions. She provides national and local training on such issues as the Adoption and Safe Families Act, the Indian Child Welfare Act, confidentiality, legal ethics in child welfare, the representation of children, and trial techniques. She also consults on legislation connected to child welfare issues. Ms. Burt, who also serves as counsel to the New York Public Welfare Association, was recognized at the NYPWA’s 148th annual summer conference, held July 16–19 in Saratoga Springs, New York.