Youth Law Center

Sue Burrell is quoted in this article about an 11 year old held nearly a year in Santa Clara Juvenile Ha...

Today, the Youth Law Center and the California Rural Legal Assistance filed a lawsuit, Alejo v. O'Connell...

In December 2007, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued rules that would have res...

San Francisco Superior Court Judge Peter Busch ruled on June 4th that California state foster care officials ...

Congratulations to Janelle Orsi, a former YLC law clerk, and Emily Doskow for writing the just published The ...

The Youth Law Center is pleased to present our six summer law clerks and intern for the Summer of 2008: Kara...

Corene Kendrick will be on “Beyond the Headlines” at 10:00 a.m. this Sunday, May 10th, on ABC Chan...

Through their Future Leaders Institute, Gateway Charter High School Students, lead by Maricarmen Hernandez, ar...

Staff Attorney Corene Kendrick was part of a team of juvenile justice experts organized by the National Juven...

Additional child welfare bills that the Youth Law Center is supporting are AB 154 that will inform ...

YLC is co-sponsoring AB 12, which will extend foster care benefits to youth after the age of 18 and allow Cal...

YLC is supporting AB 938, which provides for early identification and notification of relatives of children w...

We have signed on to an amicus brief in a strip search case, Safford v. Redding, that is going befo...

In his March 9, 2009, press conference, Governor Schwarzenegger issued a statement of support for A.B. 12, th...

The John and Marcia Goldman Foundation has awarded the Youth Law Center and the Santa Clara University Law Sch...

U.S. District Court Judge Karlton recognized the Youth Law Center and its co-counsel for their outstanding wo...

The Youth Law Center assisted Santa Cruz County in hosting an event on February 4th to educate and invol...

The Youth Law Center is co-sponsor of the 2009 California Working Families Policy Summit to be held January 1...

YLC Thanks 2008 Volunteers! We thank the really wonderful people who gave their time and energ...

Sue Burrell, Corene Kendrick and Brian Blalock's article on incompetent youth in California's juvenil...

The Youth Law Center is pleased to announce that Damon King has received a Skadden Fellowship to work at the Y...

The Youth Law Center is one of the co sponsors for the California Working Families Policy Summit 2009, hosted...

The California Judicial Council has revised juvenile court rules governing the release of confidential records...

YLC Staff Attorneys Sue Burrell and Corene Kendrick were among the speakers at the Pacific Juvenile Defender C...

Carole Shauffer and Jennifer Rodriguez with Dr. Rachel Barr and the staffs of participating counties presente...

Alice Bussiere was a core trainer for the Benchmark Institute College of Advocacy held October 10-17 in Los G...

YLC Staff Attorneys Sue Burrell, Deborah Escobedo, and Corene Kendrick conducted a training on Oct. 7 an...

This week, Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law S.B. 1147 - Medi-Cal for Juveniles. As a result of th...

As part of our project to improve the recruitment and retention of Florida foster families, the Youth Law Cent...

The Daily Journal printed Sue Burrell's piece on Prop 6 today. To read the complete column, please ...

California has been selected as one of four sites nationally to participate in the Models for Change Juvenile...

A team of Youth Law Center staff attorneys led by Sue Burrell assisted New Mexico in their self inspection pr...

Detention facility self-inspections test whether facilities are meeting constitutional standards and best prac...

As co-counsel in L.H. v. Schwarzenegger, we are bringing tegether juvenile defenders from around the state to...

On Monday, August 4, 2008, Corene Kendrick, YLC Staff Attorney, took part in a panel training entitled "Collab...

The Youth Law Center has settled A.S.W. v. Oregon (aka A.S.W. v. Mink), an Adoption Assistance Program ("...

San Bernardino Probation Department held the first session of the Baby Elmo Project, a hands on teen parentin...

The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 19th annual Kids Count Data Book is now available. The annual Data Book is a ...

Corene Kendrick will be one of the panelists on the Commonwealth Club's panel, "Fostering ...

A settlement was reached on June 4, 2008, between the California Division of Juvenile Justice and juvenile pa...

The Youth Law Center is pleased to present our six summer law clerks and intern for the Summer of 2008: Jenn...

Carole Shauffer was on NPR's Nation - "A Closer Look: Kids in Court" May 23, 2008. To list...

The Youth Law Center is one of the grantees profiled in the final Haigh-Scatena Foundation report, "40 Ye...

Fresno is the third site to partner with the Youth Law Center to work toward improving the lives of very youn...

S.H. v. Stickrath has settled. The settlement is a comprehensive commitment by Ohio to move the state's j...

The Youth Law Center is sponsoring S.B. 1147, which would require the Department of Health Care Services to a...

Orange, Fresno and Yolo Counties are implementing the Baby Elmo Parenting Program, which is designed to supp...

San Francisco and Fresno Counties join Detroit, Michigan to ensure that child welfare serves young children i...

Judge in L.H. v. Schwarzenegger orders defendants to appoint counsel to represent each and every juvenile par...

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