Resource Library

Drugs and Disparity: The Racial Impact of Illinois’ Practice of Transferring Young Drug Offenders to Adult Court

This study analyzed data from state criminal justice agencies in Illinois and national corrections databases....

Categories: Racial Justice/DMC

Rights of Children and Youth in Foster Care to Have Contact with Relatives and Friends

This three-page fact sheet explains the rights of children and youth in foster care to...

Categories: Child Welfare, Foster care, Relatives/kinship care

Overpayments – YLC Fact Sheet

This fact sheet describes what overpayments are and what the rules are if the overpayments...

Categories: Adoption, Adoption assistance, Foster care, Kinship/guardianship, Title IV-E funding

Transitional Medi-Cal & Transitional Housing Program Plus (THP+) – YLC Fact Sheet

A foster care youth who is in foster care on his/her 18th birthday is entitled...

Categories: Access to care/EPSDT, Independent Living/Transition

Rights of Teen Parents in the Juvenile Justice System – YLC Fact Sheet

Youth who come in contact with the juvenile justice system may also be parents. ...

Categories: "Know your rights", Teen parenting

Police Interrogation of Child on Campus – YLC Fact Sheet

This fact sheet adddresses the participation of parents and guardians when police, or any law...

Categories: Law enforcement in school

Grandparent Visitation Rights in Foster Care – YLC Fact Sheet

This two-page fact sheet explains the visitation rights of grandparents who have grandchildren in the...

Categories: Relatives/kinship care

Foster Care Education Fact Sheets (California Foster Youth Education Task Force)

These are mostly one page fact sheets that were developed by the California Foster Youth Education Taskforce...

Categories: A.B. 490/foster care education

DJJ’s Implementation of AB 1628 Transferring Post-Release Supervision to County Probation

This memo summarizes a presentation at a public meeting of the Juvenile Parole Board (JPB)...

Categories: Disposition/placement, Juveniles in Jails/Prisons

Juvenile Law: Confidentiality of Records

The California Judicial Council has revised juvenile court rules governing the release of confidential records...

Categories: Juvenile records/court proceedings

AB 938 Fact Sheet

AB 938 provides for early identification and notification of relatives of children who have removed...

Categories: Relatives/kinship care

SB 114 Fact Sheet

SB 114 will simplified the process for former foster youth to maintain their Medi-Cal eligibility.

Categories: Access to care