Resource Library

DHCS Flyer re Medi-Cal for Former Foster Youth

Flyer from DHCS on Medi-Cal for former foster youth ---who qualifies and how to...

Categories: Transitional Medicaid

ACWDL 14-41 – Enrollment in the Former Foster Care Children’s (FFCC) Program for Mandatory Coverage Group an...

The purpose of this All County Welfare Directors Letter (AWCDL) is to provide County Department...

Categories: Transitional Medicaid

Sticker Shock: Calculating the Full Price Tag for Youth Incarceration

Report by the Justice Policy Institute outlining the costs of juvenile incarceration.

Categories: Alternatives to incarceration/JDAI, Collateral consequences, Detention, Disposition/placement, Juvenile justice legal issues, Legal/policy analyses, Realignment of resources

Juvenile Justice Can Be Less Expensive and More Effective

Op-ed by YLC Staff Attorney Sue Burrell on the cost of juvenile detention published by...

Categories: Alternatives to incarceration/JDAI, Collateral consequences, Detention, Disposition/placement, Juvenile justice legal issues, Legal/policy analyses, Realignment of resources

Legal Rights of Teens in Out of Home Care (2014)

This booklet, based on California law, covers some of the concerns of a youth in...

Categories: "Know your rights", AB 12, AB 12, Access to care/EPSDT, Alternatives to incarceration/JDAI, Congregate care, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Inmate Exclusion, Kinship/guardianship, Legal Rights/Placement, Mental Health Services Act, Permanency planning, Placement delay, Relatives/kinship care, Specific Services, SSI/Social Security, Title IV-E funding, Transitional Medicaid

California takes on harsh discipline and academic inequities for black, latino students

Article by Center for Public Integrity on school discipline and push out of Black and...

Categories: Alternative education, Discipline/truancy

Letter from YLC sponsoring AB 388

Letter to Assembly Member Wesley Chesbro co-sponsoring SB 388

Categories: Congregate care, Dual jurisdiction, Foster care

AB 388 Chaptered Text

Text of AB 388, bill requiring oversight on the use of law enforcement in group...

Categories: Congregate care, Dual jurisdiction, Foster care

Prison for Teen Who Lit “Agender” Youth’s Skirt on Fire Thwarts Healing

Blog, by Youth Law Center Staff Attorney Sue Burrell, for the Huffington Post, on the...

Categories: Adolescence, Disposition/placement, LGBTQ, Trying juveniles as adults

Chaptered Text AB 2276

Text of AB 2276

Categories: Enrollment/re-entry

YLC Letter in Support of AB 2276

Letter in Support of AB 2276, a bill addressing the re-enrollment rights of juvenile justice...

Categories: Enrollment/re-entry

SB 1111 Chaptered Text

The text of SB 1111 addressing transfer rights of students referred to county community schools.

Categories: Alternative education, Enrollment/re-entry