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Key Facts: An Overview of Fostering Connections Discussion Draft – California Working Families Policy Summit

The Youth Law Center was co-sponsor of the 2009 California Working Families Policy Summit, held...

Categories: Foster care

Recommendations on Children in Foster Care – California Working Families Policy Summit

The Youth Law Center was co-sponsor of the 2009 California Working Families Policy Summit, held...

Categories: Access to care/EPSDT, Congregate care, Foster care

SB 1147 – Suspension Rather than Termination of Medi-Cal

Youth Law Center sponsored this bill, which was enacted by the California Legislature in 2008....

Categories: Access to care/EPSDT, Inmate Exclusion

Working Together: Building Local Monitoring Capacity for Juvenile Detention Centers

This report describes a project undertaken when the California Legislature defunded state inspections of juvenile...

Categories: Detention, Inspection / assessment material, Legal/policy issues

The “Inmate Exception” and Its Impact on Health Care Services for Children in Out-of-Home Care in California

This paper was commissioned by The California Endowment. Youth Law Center was asked to...

Categories: Access to care/EPSDT, Inmate Exclusion

Anthony C. v. Pima County Complaint

Anthony C. v. Pima County was filed in 1982 to challenge a number of practices...

Categories: Detention, Legal/policy issues

Aguilar v. Mitchell Complaint

Aguilar v. Mitchell was a federal court action involving conditions of confinement of children in...

Categories: Detention, Legal/policy issues

ACLU NM v. NMCYFD 2007 Complaint

Since 2002, YLC staff has worked with the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico...

Categories: Legal/policy issues, Training school

Application of Pacific Juvenile Defender Center for Leave to File Amicus Curiae Brief on Behalf of Appellant Rodrigo Cab...

This amicus curiae brief was filed on behalf of appellant Rodrigo Caballero. The issue...

Categories: Juveniles in Jails/Prisons, LWOP/extremely long sentences

Graham v. Sullivan Amicus

The Youth Law Center is one of the Amici Curiae in this brief to the...

Categories: Juveniles in Jails/Prisons, LWOP/extremely long sentences

Safford v. Redding Amicus

The Youth Law Center participated in this case as amicus curiae in a brief on...

Categories: Discipline/truancy, Juvenile justice legal issues, Law enforcement in school

Sam M. v. Carcieri Amicus

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

Categories: Foster care