Public Benefits/Funding

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

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

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

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

CalFresh--SNAP or Food Stamps-- can help young people meet their food needs and provide stability...

Categories: AB 12, Aging Out/Transition, Independent Living/Transition, Public Benefits/Funding

This fact sheet provides a summary of recent amendments to federal regulations, 45 CFR 1356,...

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Legal Representation, Public Benefits/Funding

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

Extended Foster Care (EFC) is a statewide program that allows eligible young people to remain...

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

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

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

Categories: Foster care, Foster Care Benefits, Foster parents

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

Most foster parents in California, including relatives, have the right to take leave from work...

Categories: Babies/young children, Child Welfare, Foster care, Foster parents, Public Benefits/Funding, Relatives/kinship care

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

This document provides a summary and update on federal laws that are introduced in Congress...

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Public Benefits/Funding

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 resource walks through several frequently asked questions common among families who have adopted children out of...

Categories: Adoption, Adoption assistance, Child Welfare, Mental Health, Public Benefits/Funding, Specific services/programs

This frequently-asked-questions resource covers the financial benefits and options available to youth and families impacted...

Categories: Child Welfare, Homelessness, Juvenile court practice, Juvenile Justice, Public Benefits/Funding

This is a resource that has been developed by the Youth Law Center to respond...

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, 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 toolkit contains fact sheets for the following stakeholders in California: young people, public housing...

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Public Benefits/Funding

The Foster Care Social Security and Supplemental Security Income Assistance Program (created by AB 1633...

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice, Public Benefits/Funding, SSI/Social Security

This resource contains template letters to request information and actions related to foster youth clients,...

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice, Public Benefits/Funding, SSI/Social Security

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

Foster Care Benefits: AFDC-FC Program Change Alert

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

Kinship Guardianship Assistance Program Fact Sheet

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

The following template letters can be used as part of your advocacy to (1) request...

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Public Benefits/Funding

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

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

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Legal Representation, Public Benefits/Funding

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

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Public Benefits/Funding

A general fact sheet about the FYI/FUP Programs for young people in California.

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Independent Living/Transition, Public Benefits/Funding

A few things you can do to help transition aged youth with experience in the...

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Public Benefits/Funding

Title IV-E for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System

Categories: Disposition/placement, Title IV-E funding

Many resource, foster and kinship families are either unaware of, or given incorrect information about,...

Categories: Public Benefits/Funding

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

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

Categories: Access to care/EPSDT, Transitional Medicaid

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

Article published in Chronicle of Social Change on SB 1466.

Categories: Access to care/EPSDT

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

Categories: Access to care/EPSDT

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

Categories: Access to care/EPSDT

Letter of support to SSA regarding extension of window for foster youth to apply for...

Categories: SSI/Social Security, Transitional Medicaid

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

Categories: AB 12, AB 12, Dual jurisdiction

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

This is a summary of the SSI Restoration Act, H.R. 1601, introduced by Representative Raúl...

Categories: SSI/Social Security

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

Categories: Access to care/EPSDT

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

Categories: Access to care/EPSDT

Letter requesting that the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission broaden the recommended language...

Categories: Mental Health Services Act

These comments are directed at one small, but important area - the language with respect...

Categories: Mental Health Services Act

Article about why it is critical that the Prevention and Early Intervention (PEI) Guidelines be...

Categories: Mental health needs, Mental Health Services Act, Racial Justice/DMC

Op ed piece about the Supplemental Security Income Legislation introduced by Republicans that would change...

Categories: SSI/Social Security

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

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

Categories: AB 12, Disposition/placement, Foster care

"Adoption Assistance: An Introduction" by Alice Bussiere has been published in the July-August, 2011 issue...

Categories: Adoption, Adoption assistance

Mark A. v. Wilson was filed in January 1998 alleging that the State's administration of...

Categories: Adoption, Adoption assistance

Mark A. v. Wilson was filed in January 1998 alleging that the State's administration of...

Categories: Adoption, Adoption assistance

A.S.W. v. Mink, a class action lawsuit, challenged the Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS)...

Categories: Adoption, Adoption assistance

A.S.W. v. Mink, a class action lawsuit, challenged the Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS)...

Categories: Adoption, Adoption assistance

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

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

Categories: Access to care/EPSDT, Inmate Exclusion

This paper was commissioned by The California Endowment. Youth Law Center was asked to...

Categories: Access to care/EPSDT, Inmate Exclusion

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

A foster care youth who is in foster care on his/her 18th birthday is entitled...

Categories: Access to care/EPSDT, Independent Living/Transition

Assembly Bill 47 will adjust a tax credit that is currently available to offset the...

Categories: Adoption assistance

AB 154 would increase the incentives of to promote the adoption of children in foster...

Categories: Adoption, Adoption assistance

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

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

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