Foster Care Benefits

Statement Supporting Trailer Bill Language in 2025 CA State Budget

A Statement by Youth Law Center and California Youth Connection in Support of Trailer Bill...

Categories: Foster care, Foster Care Benefits, Foster parents

Request by a young person to the child welfare agency or juvenile probation department to make a referral for an FYI or ...

This template can be used by a young person to ask that the child welfare...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Foster Care Benefits, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice

ALERT: Applications Open for CDSS’s Guaranteed Income (GI) Pilot Program for 300 Youth Aging Out of Extended Foster Ca...

The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) oversees the Guaranteed Income (GI) Pilot Program and...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Foster Care Benefits, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice, Public Benefits/Funding

Trainings and Workshops from Youth Law Center’s Transition-Aged Youth (TAY) Civil Legal Practice Exchange (Fall 2020 &...

Youth Law Center’s TAY Practice Exchange is a free practice support network for civil legal...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12, Access to care, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Education, Equity Issues, Foster care, Foster Care Benefits, Girls, Health, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice, LGBTQ, Medicaid/Medi-Cal, Mental Health, Mental health needs, Public Benefits/Funding, Specific services/programs, SSI/Social Security

Foster Care Benefits: AFDC-FC Program Change Alert

Foster Care Benefits: AFDC-FC Program Change Alert

Categories: Child Welfare, Foster care, Foster Care Benefits, Public Benefits/Funding

Title IV-E for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System Fact Sheet

Title IV-E for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System

Categories: Disposition/placement, Title IV-E funding

Bill to Extend Foster Care Benefits for Probation Youth Clears California Senate Committee

Article appearing in Chronicle of Social Change on SB 12, bill to grant extended foster...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12, Dual jurisdiction

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

Probation Provisions in California’s Fostering Connections to Success Act – Powerpoint Presentation

On August 30, 2011, Jennifer Rodriguez and Maria Ramiu presented a webinar on “Probation Provisions...

Categories: AB 12, Disposition/placement, Foster 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

Update: “Fostering Connections to Success: Extending a Social Safety Net for Youths Facing Homelessness and Poverty”

The Clearinghouse Review has published an update on The Fostering Connections Act written by YLC...

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

Fostering Connections to Success: Extending a Social Safety Net for Youths Facing Homelessness and Poverty

YLC staff attorneys Jennifer Rodriguez and Alice Bussiere co-authored an article with Juvenile Law Center...

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