Youth Law Center News and Events

August 21, 2009

Foster Care & Extended Foster Care

YLC Works on Sam M. v. Carcieri Amicus Brief

The Youth Law Center joined fourteen other children's advocacy organizations in an amicus brief filed...

August 19, 2009

Foster Care & Extended Foster Care

Evaluation of GALs in Nebraska

YLC Staff Attorney Corene Kendrick is working with Madelyn Freundlich, Senior Child Welfare Consultant at...

August 14, 2009

Foster Care & Extended Foster Care, Juvenile Justice

Damon King, Skadden Fellow to Begin Work at YLC

Damon King, our Skadden Fellow, will begin work here on September 14th.  His project is...

July 29, 2009

Foster Care & Extended Foster Care, Juvenile Justice

Nicole M. Lewis Joins the YLC Board of Directors

The Youth Law Center is happy to announce that Nicole M. Lewis has just joined...

July 8, 2009

Juvenile Justice

People v. Nguyen Decision a Disappointment

The California Supreme Court ruled on July 2, 2009, that juvenile felony adjudications count as...

July 6, 2009

Juvenile Justice

Strip Search of 13 Year Old Student Unconstitutional

The Youth Law Center celebrates the United State Supreme Court decision in Safford v. Redding,...

June 15, 2009

In the News, Juvenile Justice

Mercury News Article re Lack of Mental Health Services

California's Locked-Up Children Languish without Mental Health Services By Karen de Sá  |  Mercury News  — The lengthy detention of...

June 11, 2009

Foster Care & Extended Foster Care, Juvenile Justice

Press Release re Alejo v. O’Connell

Lawsuit Filed to Protect Programs for Homeless, Neglected, Migrant, English Learners and Other "At Risk"...

June 9, 2009

Foster Care & Extended Foster Care, Juvenile Justice

CMS Acts to Withdraw Harmful Medicaid Rules

 In December 2007, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued rules that would...