An article in the Daily News highlights the foreclosure prevention program at Legal Services NYC-Bronx. LS-NYC Bronx advocates will be on hand tonight at the “Preventing Home Foreclosures - Knowing Your Rights and Finding Assistance” at 6:30 p.m. tonight at the Harding Park Homeowners Association (1820 Gildersleeve Ave, Soundview) to help residents dealing with foreclosure or those who have received a loan modification, forbearance or are on a payment plan.

New Yorkers for Responsible Lending, a coalition of organizations representing consumers that includes legal service providers and housing counselors, recently submitted comments in response to an Office of Court Administration proposal intended to help clear the "shadow docket" of foreclosure actions filed by lenders that languish without court action. LSNYC Director of Foreclosure Prevention Litigation submitted the comments on behalf of the coalition.

An article in today's Daily News draws attention to a troubling but common practice in charter schools. Children, some as young as 5 years old, are being removed from schools—and thus denied their right to education— under so called "psychiatric suspensions." LSNYC-Bronx's Nelson Mar represents the families of the two kindergarteners featured in the piece.

A New York Times article focuses on the Department of Education's continuing failure to provide adequate school-based mental health services. Instead of providing such services, schools are dealing with disruptive or troubled students by sending them to emergency rooms. LSNYC-Bronx's Nelson Mar represents the family of the 10-year old profiled in the article.