Resource Library

Our searchable online resource library is an important component of our designation by the State Bar of California as a legal aid Support Center that provides legal training, legal technical assistance, and advocacy support without charge to the legal community, and specifically to California’s qualified legal services programs. Our resource library includes Youth Law Center publications, including fact sheets, legal guides, litigation materials, and other reference materials supporting legal advocacy in a variety of different areas for children and youth in the foster care and juvenile justice systems.

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March 30, 2016

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

March 30, 2016

Press Release – Educational Injustice

Press Release on the report “Educational Injustice: Barriers to Achievement and Higher Education for Youth in California’s Juvenile Court Schools.

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

March 30, 2016

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 confined to detention facilities within […]

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

March 30, 2016

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

Summary of Report detailing a study of the education system for youth confined to detention facilities within California’s juvenile justice […]

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

March 28, 2016

Just Beginning Issue Sheet

Sheet describing the need for the Just Beginning Program; the benefits the program provides both the infant/child and the incarcerated […]

Categories: Teen parenting

March 28, 2016

Delivering Services to Incarcerated Teen Fathers: A Pilot Intervention to Increase the Quality of Father-Infant Interactions During Visitation

Article appearing in Psychological Services concerning analysis of a pilot intervention, the Baby Elmo or Just Beginnings Program, which provides […]

Categories: Teen parenting

March 16, 2016

Press Release

Press release: Robin Goldfaden and Javier Stauring Join YLC

Categories: Legal/policy issues

March 1, 2016

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 confined to detention facilities within […]

Categories: Education Access

January 14, 2016

In re Y.V. Opinion

Opinion from CA Court of Appeals in Y.V. . In the opinion, the appeals court reversed a juvenile court disposition […]

Categories: Legal Rights/Placement

November 9, 2015

State Policies on Non-Family Foster Care Settings

This paper surveys state policies that restrict congregate care for children and youth in the foster care system and makes […]

Categories: Congregate care

October 21, 2015

Job Annoucement

YLC Announcement for a Staff Attorney with with a minimum of seven years of experience in the juvenile justice and/or […]

Categories: AB 12

September 22, 2015

Request for Signature – AB 403

Letter to Governor Brown requesting signature on AB 403 (congregate care reform bill).

Categories: Congregate care