Equal Rights Advocates

Know Your Rights

Knowing your rights gives you the power to fight back against discrimination and harassment.

Equal Rights Advocates provides straightforward, nuts-and-bolts information on women’s rights and remedies, whether you’re facing sexual harassment at work or school, sex or pregnancy discrimination, or uncertainty about your rights under federal family and medical leave law.

Do think you might be facing harassment or discrimination? Then read the “Know Your Rights” guides online or order hard copies of the “Know Your Rights” brochures.

If you still have questions after reviewing the “Know Your Rights” guides, call our free and Advice and Counseling hotline at 1-800-839-4ERA.

Hotline hours:

New Fall A&C hours starting 8/25 are:

Mondays 2-4 pm (except 8/29, 9/5, 9/12, 10/10)
Tuesday 10 am – 12 noon
Wednesday 5-7 pm (except 8/31)
Thursday 2-4 pm (except 11/24)
Friday 10 am – 12 noon (except 8/26, 9/2, 9/16, 11/25)

You may leave a message at any time and a counselor will call you back.

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Equal Rights Advocates’
“Know Your Rights” Series:

Sex Discrimination
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Spanish pdf format

Family and Medical Leave/Pregnancy Discrimination
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Spanish pdf format

Sexual Harassment at Work
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Spanish pdf format

Sexual Harassment at School
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Temporary Workers

Private Household Workers

Tradeswomen’s Legal Rights

http://www.equalrights.org/index.asp

Amber Alert In NC

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From: Yvonne/BE A VOICE for the silent child
Date: Oct 19, 2007 5:43 PM

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From: to missing children everywhere♥
Date: Oct 19, 2007 2:35 PM

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From: ~GINNIE~ YOO HOO MR. RIGHT WHERE ARE YOU?
Date: Oct 19, 2007 2:03 PM

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From: Kids Come First HQ North Carolina
Date: Oct 19, 2007 2:00 PM

Harmony Jude Creech

Amber Alert Issued for Missing Spring Lake Baby

Posted: Today at 2:38 p.m.
Updated: 4 minutes ago

Spring Lake — Authorities issued an Amber Alert Friday for an 11-month-old girl who hadn’t been seen since late Thursday.

Harmony Jude Creech was last seen in her crib in the family’s Spring Lake home, at 1680 Ray Road, at about 11 p.m. Thursday, authorities said. The child’s grandmother reported her missing at 11:30 a.m. Friday.

Harmony is described as 2 feet, 7 inches tall and about 18 pounds. She has sandy blond hair and blue eyes and was last seen wearing pink pajamas with footies and the words “Daddy’s Girl” and a picture of a crown on one arm. She has a dark, quarter-inch birthmark on the back of her head.

A pink bed sheet, a few bibs and most of her clothing also was taken, authorities said.

Harnett County Sheriff Larry Rollins said a screen was missing from the window in the baby’s room. Three other children were in the home overnight, but none was harmed, he said.

The baby’s father is a soldier with the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg who returned from deployment on Friday morning, Rollins said.

Investigators were interviewing the girl’s parents Friday afternoon, and a local day care center was keeping the other children until deputies finished their investigation at the house.

The Harnett County Sheriff’s Office established a staging area across the street from the house on Friday.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Harnett County Sheriff’s Office at 910-893-9111.

TN Kids

TN Kids

TN KIDS (Tennessee Kids Information Data System) is Tennessee’s federally required SACWIS (Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System) project. Project development began in 1996 during the formation of the current Tennessee Department of Children’s Services. In December 1999 TN KIDS replaced three non-Y2K compliant legacy data tracking systems from the integrated departments and moved Tennessee’s child welfare system closer to the realization of an on-line real time data collection and dissemination tool.

The first phase of the project included adding and upgrading hardware and software tools across the state to over 3100 users. The current functions of the system include statewide desktop access to all departmental case managers, team leaders, administrators, support staff and central office staff as of December 2000. Daily use includes the recording of extensive client data in every program area as well as several pieces of case management. All foster care information reported to the federal government as per AFCARS (Adoption & Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System) requirements are met with the TN KIDS data system. The remaining portions to be developed include all fiscal tracking for the department and enhanced case management generation and documentation.

For more information about the Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System (SACWIS), visit the Federal site.

For more information about the Adoption & Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS), visit the Federal site.

Where Does Your State rank In Childrens Well Being?

KIDS COUNT overall rank
2004/2005
Alabama 48
Alaska 38
Arizona 36
Arkansas 45
California 19
Colorado 23
Connecticut 3
Delaware 35
Florida 32
Georgia 41
Hawaii 11
Idaho 22
Illinois 26
Indiana 31
Iowa 7
Kansas 16
Kentucky 40
Louisiana 49
Maine 15
Maryland 24
Massachusetts 5
Michigan 27
Minnesota 1
Mississippi 50
Missouri 34
Montana 29
Nebraska 10
Nevada 33
New Hampshire 2
New Jersey 9
New Mexico 47
New York 18
North Carolina 39
North Dakota 8
Ohio 28
Oklahoma 42
Oregon 17
Pennsylvania 21
Rhode Island 20
South Carolina 46
South Dakota 30
Tennessee 43
Texas 37
Utah 4
Vermont 6
Virginia 14
Washington 13
West Virginia 44
Wisconsin 12
Wyoming 25

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Report Your Problems in TN

Brian A. Monitor

“The Office of the Court Monitor under the Brian A. v. Bredesen Settlement is responsible for assessing the Department of Children’s Services’ progress in implementing its Path to Excellence improvement plan and meeting the requirements and outcomes of the Brian A. Settlement Agreement. The Monitor will periodically issue public reports on the Department’s progress to the U.S. District Court and the parties to the Settlement Agreement. In carrying out its responsibilities, the Monitor’s Office is available to receive complaints, referrals, comments, and concerns from children, family members, foster and adoptive parents, advocates, DCS and private agency staff, and members of the public. In general, the Monitor’s Office does not intervene in specific cases; however, the Monitor’s Office investigates any complaints and referrals it receives and may use the information that it gains as a result of an investigation as part of its monitoring and reporting functions.”

Brian A. Monitor

Cordell Hull Building, 7th Floor

436 6th Ave. N

Nashville, TN 37243

(615) 532-5034