Kinship/guardianship

Strategies for Addressing Barriers to Kinship Care Placements: A California Practice Fact Sheet

This comprehensive fact sheet outlines legal strategies and resources to overcome common barriers facing relative...

Categories: Foster care, Kinship/guardianship, Relatives/kinship care

Kinship Guardianship Assistance Program Fact Sheet

Kinship Guardianship Assistance Program Fact Sheet

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

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

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