Housing Stability Fundamentals (July 2025)

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Passports are essential identity documents that prove citizenship and are required for international travel. Children under 16 can apply for passports when both parents take them to apply in person at a passport acceptance agency like the post office. However, what happens if one of the child’s parents is unable to go to the post office or if a parent doesn’t want the child to have a passport? Use this guide to help navigate the passport application process for children under 16 if you are supporting a family in a state other than Massachusetts. Legal Key has created a guide specifically for Massachusetts available here.

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Passports are essential identity documents that prove citizenship and are required for international travel. Children under 16 can apply for passports when both parents take them to apply in person at a passport acceptance agency like the post office. However, what happens if one of the child’s parents is unable to go to the post office or if a parent doesn’t want the child to have a passport? Use this guide to help navigate the passport application process for Massachusetts children under 16. If you are supporting a family in a state other than Massachusetts, Legal Key has created a federally focused guide.

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Access to this resource is limited to Unlocking Access subscribers. These partners can access materials designed to help communities of care become stronger partners in problem-solving with the people they serve.

Access to this resource is limited to Unlocking Access subscribers. These partners can access materials designed to help communities of care become stronger partners in problem-solving with the people they serve.

Access to this resource is limited to Unlocking Access subscribers. These partners can access materials designed to help communities of care become stronger partners in problem-solving with the people they serve.

Access to this resource is limited to Unlocking Access subscribers. These partners can access materials designed to help communities of care become stronger partners in problem-solving with the people they serve.

Access to this resource is limited to Unlocking Access subscribers. These partners can access materials designed to help communities of care become stronger partners in problem-solving with the people they serve.

Access to this resource is limited to Unlocking Access subscribers. These partners can access materials designed to help communities of care become stronger partners in problem-solving with the people they serve.

Excerpted from Legal Problem-Solving and Flourishing: A Handbook for Perinatal and Early Childhood System-Builders

In 2022, our Early Childhood Learning Community generated Legal Problem-Solving and Flourishing: A Handbook for Perinatal and Early Childhood System-Builders, available in English on MLPB’s website. This Handbook includes ten (10) tools that can enable integration of legal problem-solving as an element of family-centered care. Here, we share the ten tools in translated form. The four sets of translated materials are geared to some language communities based in Orange County, CA; the state of Rhode Island; and Boston, MA.’


Spanish

Tools for Legal Problem-Solving - Spanish

Vietnamese

Tools for Legal Problem-Solving - Vietnamese

Cape Verdean Creole

Tools for Legal Problem-Solving - Cape Verdean Creole

Haitian Creole

Tools for Legal Problem-Solving - Haitian Creole