Health

This report reflects on the first year since the closure of the Warren E. Thornton...

Categories: Child Welfare, Congregate care, Foster care, Group Homes/Non-Secure Placement, Health, Legal/policy issues, Mental Health, Placement/Confinement, Relatives/kinship care, Standards/enforcement

In California, outside of juvenile dependency and delinquency representation, there are few civil legal aid...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Education, Foster care, Foster Care Benefits, Health, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice, Legal Representation, Practice standards/guides, Public Benefits/Funding

Through California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM), the Department of Health Care Services is reforming...

Categories: Access to care, Access to care/EPSDT, Child Welfare, Health, Inmate Exclusion, Juvenile Justice, Medicaid/Medi-Cal, Mental Health, Public Benefits/Funding, Specific Services, Specific services/programs, Specific services/programs

What would it look like if Tennessee’s juvenile justice system prioritized strengthening families, connecting youth...

Categories: Developmental disabilities, Equity Issues, Health, Juvenile Justice, Juvenile Justice Reform, Racial Justice/DMC

What would it look like if Tennessee’s juvenile justice system prioritized strengthening families, connecting youth...

Categories: Developmental disabilities, Equity Issues, Health, Juvenile Justice, Juvenile Justice Reform, Racial Justice/DMC

This set of resources provides an overview of Medi-Cal beneficiaries' due process rights for accessing...

Categories: Access to care, Access to care/EPSDT, Grievances/appeals, Health, Legal Representation, Medicaid/Medi-Cal, Mental Health, Public Benefits/Funding

This advocacy tool and worksheet was developed to help state advocates navigate the current state...

Categories: Access to care, Child Welfare, Foster care, Health, Medicaid/Medi-Cal

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

This fact sheet provides resources to help advocates support young people in foster care navigate...

Categories: Access to care, Child Welfare, Foster care, Health

This publication provides an update on funding that the state has made available to county...

Categories: Child Welfare, Congregate care, Foster care, Health, Mental Health

This resource alert provides an update related to older foster youth access to Medicaid. The...

Categories: Access to care, Child Welfare, Foster care, Health, Medicaid/Medi-Cal, Public Benefits/Funding

Categories: Health, Transitional Medicaid

Categories: Child Welfare, Child/Adolescent Development, Health, Juvenile Justice, Medicaid/Medi-Cal, Public Benefits/Funding

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Health, Transitional Medicaid

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Health, Transitional Medicaid

Categories: Child Welfare, Child/Adolescent Development, Health

Medicaid/Medi-Cal for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System

Categories: Specific services/programs

No child should remain in custody due to the lack of a reentry plan. Now...

Categories: Access to care, Aging Out/Transition, Detention, Disposition/placement, Education, Group Homes/Non-Secure Placement, Health, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice, Mental Health, Placement/Confinement, Public Benefits/Funding, Reducing Incarceration, Secure Juvenile Facilities

Job Announcement - Director of Finance and Administration

Categories: Specific services/programs

Job Description for Development and Communications Coordinator

Categories: Specific services/programs

Letter to Governor Brown requesting signature on AB 1849, a bill intended to reduce barriers...

Categories: Access to care, Access to care/EPSDT, Transitional Medicaid

Job Announcement for Policy Advocate

Categories: Specific services/programs

Job Announcement for experience staff attorney

Categories: Specific services/programs

Letter from Jennifer Rodriguez to Commissioner Sanders appearing as an appendix to final report of...

Categories: Access to care, Babies/young children, Early childhood, Foster care, Foster parents, Health care needs, Mental health needs, Specific services/programs, Specific services/programs

Key Findings and Recommendations of the report: Within Our Reach: A National Strategy to Eliminate...

Categories: Access to care, Babies/young children, Early childhood, Foster care, Foster parents, Health care needs, Mental health needs, Specific services/programs, Specific services/programs

Final report by the Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities.

Categories: Access to care, Babies/young children, Early childhood, Foster care, Foster parents, Health care needs, Specific services/programs

Final report by the Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities.

Categories: Access to care, Babies/young children, Early childhood, Foster care, Foster parents, Health care needs, Specific services/programs

Letter to Senators Reid and McConnell, signed by 100 advocacy organizations, urging support of new...

Categories: Health care needs

This letter supports passage of S. 1992 and H.R. 4016, bipartisan, bicameral bills, also known...

Categories: Access to care

Public Interest Law Project's comments on USDA's proposed Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) regulation which...

Categories: Nutrition

Comments of the National Senior Citizens Law Center and the Western Center on Law and...

Categories: Nutrition

This letter contains LSNC's comments to the proposed regulations to Clarify the Eligibility of Fleeing...

Categories: Nutrition

YLC writes to support the effort to clarify the SNAP eligibility criteria and to make...

Categories: Nutrition

Letters to several county probation departments requesting information about the developmental delayed individuals in their...

Categories: Developmental disabilities

This is a short primer on legal issues that may come up in California juvenile...

Categories: Developmental disabilities

County responses to the Public Records Act request for copies of all public records, including...

Categories: Developmental disabilities

This power point presentation summarizes the results of a survey of probation departments. It...

Categories: Detention, Developmental disabilities, Disposition/placement

Public Records Act Request for information about children under the juvenile court jurisdiction with developmental...

Categories: Developmental disabilities, Specific services/programs

The Youth Law Center joined with over 35 national child welfare and mental organizations to...

Categories: Foster care, Health care needs, Mental health needs, Specific Services

The Youth Law Center joined with over 35 national child welfare and mental organizations to...

Categories: Foster care, Health care needs, Mental health needs, Specific Services

The Health Care Program for Children in Foster Care will be removed from the list...

Categories: Foster care nurses

The Youth Law Center opposed realignment of the program, which provides public health nurses to...

Categories: Foster care nurses

This letter is in response to Youth Law Center letter opposing realignment of the program,...

Categories: Foster care nurses

Marquez v California Department of Health, challenges California Medi-Cal policies that deny necessary medical care...

Categories: Access to care

Rene M. v. Anderson was filed as a writ of mandate to require that the...

Categories: Foster care, Health care needs

Rene M. v. Anderson was filed as a writ of mandate to require that the...

Categories: Foster care, Health care needs

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

Categories: Access to care

In an effort to ensure that children receive the health care they need, the Youth...

Categories: Access to care

This is the final report for a multi-year effort, funded by The California Endowment, to...

Categories: Access to care, Mental health needs

YLC has signed on with other state and national organizations to urge House Speaker Nancy...

Categories: Access to care, Access to care/EPSDT, Inmate Exclusion, Mental health needs