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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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...

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SB 1147 – Suspension Rather than Termination of Medi-Cal

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

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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...

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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...

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Anthony C. v. Pima County Complaint

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

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Aguilar v. Mitchell Complaint

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

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ACLU NM v. NMCYFD 2007 Complaint

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

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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...

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Graham v. Sullivan Amicus

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

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Safford v. Redding Amicus

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

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Sam M. v. Carcieri Amicus

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

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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....

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