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Within Our Reach: A National Strategy to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities

Final report by the Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities.

Categories: Access to care, Babies/young children, Early childhood, Foster care, Foster parents, Health care needs, Specific services/programs

Within Our Reach: A National Strategy to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities

Final report by the Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities.

Categories: Access to care, Babies/young children, Early childhood, Foster care, Foster parents, Health care needs, Specific services/programs

Press Release – Educational Injustice

Press Release on the report "Educational Injustice: Barriers to Achievement and Higher Education for Youth...

Categories: Discipline/truancy, English learner/migrant/homeless, Enrollment/re-entry, Gang profiling, Law enforcement in school, No Child Left Behind/other funding, Special education

Educational Injustice: Barriers to Achievement and Higher Education for Youth in California Juvenile Court Schools

Report by the Youth Law Center of the of the barriers to education for youth...

Categories: Discipline/truancy, English learner/migrant/homeless, Enrollment/re-entry, Gang profiling, Law enforcement in school, No Child Left Behind/other funding, Special education

Executive Summary: Educational Injustice: Barriers to Achievement and Higher Education for Youth in California Juvenile ...

Summary of Report detailing a study of the education system for youth confined to detention...

Categories: Alternative education, Discipline/truancy, English learner/migrant/homeless, Enrollment/re-entry, Gang profiling, Law enforcement in school, No Child Left Behind/other funding, Special education

Just Beginning Issue Sheet

Sheet describing the need for the Just Beginning Program; the benefits the program provides both...

Categories: Teen parenting

Delivering Services to Incarcerated Teen Fathers: A Pilot Intervention to Increase the Quality of Father-Infant Interact...

Article appearing in Psychological Services concerning analysis of a pilot intervention, the Baby Elmo or...

Categories: Teen parenting

Press Release

Press release: Robin Goldfaden and Javier Stauring Join YLC

Categories: Legal/policy issues

Educational Injustice: Barriers to Achievement and Higher Education for Youth in California Juvenile Court Schools

Report by the Youth Law Center of the of the barriers to education for youth...

Categories: Education Access

In re Y.V. Opinion

Opinion from CA Court of Appeals in Y.V. . In the opinion, the appeals...

Categories: Legal Rights/Placement

State Policies on Non-Family Foster Care Settings

This paper surveys state policies that restrict congregate care for children and youth in the...

Categories: Congregate care

Job Annoucement

YLC Announcement for a Staff Attorney with with a minimum of seven years of experience...

Categories: AB 12