Medicaid/Medi-Cal

New Considerations for Medi-Cal Managed Care Enrollment: Tips for Legal Aid Providers to Support Youth in Foster Care

All youth in foster care are eligible for Medi-Cal, but not all youth in foster...

Categories: Foster care, Medicaid/Medi-Cal, Mental Health

Medi-Cal for Foster Youth & Presumptive Transfer: Basic Requirements and Applicability

This fact sheet provides an overview of presumptive transfer of Medi-Cal in the circumstance in...

Categories: Foster care, Medicaid/Medi-Cal, Mental Health

CalAIM Behavioral Health Services for Systems-Involved Youth

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

Medi-Cal Due Process for Mental Health Services

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

Advocacy Tool: Reproductive Health Care Access for Young People with Experience in Foster Care

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

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

SUPPORT Act Implementation Resource

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

Building on the Momentum: How Appropriate Implementation of Community Based Supports Can Help Youth with Complex Care Ne...

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

AB 1849: Fact Sheet

Fact sheet on AB 1849 (Gipson): Medi-Cal for Emancipating Foster Youth

Categories: Access to care/EPSDT, Transitional Medicaid

AB 1849 – Request for Signature

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

Good Health Starts with Smart Screening

Article published in Chronicle of Social Change on SB 1466.

Categories: Access to care/EPSDT

SB 1466 Sponsor letter

YLC Letter to Senator Mitchell sponsoring SB 1466, a bill to ensure that trauma screening...

Categories: Access to care/EPSDT

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Article in Chronicle of Social Change about SB 1466, a bill to ensure that trauma...

Categories: Access to care/EPSDT

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

Letter to HHS re Proposed Regulations for Ensuring Medicaid to age 26

The Youth Law Center was one of 46 national organizations and 23 state and...

Categories: Access to care/EPSDT

Letter to HHS re Extension of Medicaid to Former Foster Youth

YLC submitted comments on proposed rules to implement the extension of Medicaid to former foster...

Categories: Access to care/EPSDT

Senator Debbie Stabenow’s Amendment re TFC

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

Thank You Letter to Senator Debbie Stabenow Re Medicaid Coverage Amendment

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

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...

Categories: Access to care/EPSDT, Congregate care, Foster care

SB 1147 – Suspension Rather than Termination of Medi-Cal

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

Categories: Access to care/EPSDT, Inmate Exclusion

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...

Categories: Access to care/EPSDT, Inmate Exclusion

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

January 12, 2010, Letter to Nancy Pelosi Re: Suspending Rather than Terminating Medicaid

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