Permanency planning

Advocating for the Most Connected Placement: A Guide to Reducing the Use of Group Care

This Guide is intended to be a practical tool that can be used by attorneys...

Categories: Child Welfare, Congregate care, Disposition/placement, Foster care, Group Homes/Non-Secure Placement, Juvenile Justice, Legal Representation, Permanency planning, Placement/Confinement, Practice standards/guides, Relatives/kinship care

Referral letter for FUP from Civil Legal Aid attorney

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Legal Representation, Permanency planning, Public Benefits/Funding

Presidential Proclamation — National Foster Care Month, 2015

Proclamation by President Obama naming May 2015 National Foster Care Month

Categories: Foster care, Foster parents, Permanency planning

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

Adolescents, the Foster Care System, and the Transition to Adulthood: What Legal Aid Lawyers Need to Know

Older adolescents leaving foster care still face tremendous obstacles as they make the transition to...

Categories: Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Permanency planning