Legal Services For Children (LSC)

1 star. My experience with Legal Services for Children (LSC) in San Francisco — and especially attorney Jennifer Daley — was extremely negative. She was constantly unavailable, often out on vacation, and rarely met with me or my child. Instead, my case kept getting handed off to other LSC staff (including Nedra Schaller) who had never worked with us, which led to serious mistakes and misinformation being presented in court. Jennifer communicated with social workers and even my own parents behind my back, without ever informing me or giving me a chance to correct anything. Important decisions were made without proper investigation, and much of what was brought to the court was inaccurate or incomplete. When I tried to file a complaint about her conduct, it was dismissed without anyone reviewing the evidence. In my experience, LSC did not act in my child’s best interest and felt more like an extension of the family-policing system than an advocate. Families deserve transparency and accountability, and we did not receive that here.

I spoke to a social worker in regards to the stability of their home life when they aren't with me. Being concerned about my daughter, and the inconsistency of her lifestyle which concerned me quite a bit whenever she would take the kids or present a different new boyfriend/place to stay.. (for the most part I have raised them/they lived w/me) I began to get concerned about how they were being affected by her irresponsibility as a parent. Later to find out that they were not attending school, and my oldest grandson taking on the babysitter role and would get in trouble for his little brother in which he became a totally different kid (quite angry about his whole environmen) he was told to lie to me if I asked him questions. My grandson started to call me when his mom would sleep/ or wasn't home and he would tell me things. I convinced my daughter to let me take them to live with me during the week so I can enroll them back in school and fix the inconsistency again time passed and they were safe with me; She started telling me things when she didn't get her way, trying to manipulate saying she was taking the kids from me (*if I talked to her about lying, and being irresponsible etc...) I got to the point that I needed to help these kids before she really screwed them upore and swore to look; nyo things and if she ever got into trouble shoplifting etc... I would use it to my advantage. The social worker referred me to Legal services for children and I started to work on getting guardianship and soon enough she went to jail. They were great, they helped me so much with everything including emergency paperwrk for serving her in jail for restraining order etc .. they came to my home to talk to the kids and I. They made it smooth like butter explaining everything!!! So glad she recommended this place. Perfect for kids who eed help!!!