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    Summer Seminar: Housing for Systems-Involved Youth

    Zoom

    Housing stability is critical to any young adult’s transition to independence, and systems involved young people have particular entitlements to and face challenges in obtaining housing support and stability. Join Christopher Middleton to learn more about housing topics specific to systems-involved TAY and strategies available to advocates. Please register here.

    Transition-Age Youth (TAY) Civil Legal Practice Exchange Monthly Webinar: How Federal and State Disability Rights Laws Can be Used to Advocate for Transition Age Youth

    Zoom

    Please join Stuart Seaborn, Litigation Consultant at the Youth Law Center for a webinar about using disability rights laws to advocate for transition age youth (TAY). Participants will: (1) Gain an overview of state and federal disability rights laws applicable to TAY, (2) discuss specific situations where TAY with disabilities may need assistance enforcing their rights, […]

    Summer Seminar: Education Advocacy for Systems – Involved Youth

    Zoom

    Youth involved in the foster and criminal systems significantly more likely to be pushed out of school than other youth. This training will provide an overview of the major educational legal issues facing systems involved youth and how advocates can use the law to reduce push out. We will focus on school discipline, special education, […]

    Summer Seminar: Technology Access in Juvenile Justice Facilities

    Zoom

    The session will focus on issues related to access to technology in juvenile justice facilities for social cohesion, family connection, and education access. We will look at the legal frameworks, including implementation of AB 2448, and best practices and concerning barriers based on a survey of juvenile justice policies and documents statewide. We will spend […]

    Summer Seminar: Kinship Care

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    The Kinship Care Seminar will discuss YLC's support for legal aid offices representing children and caregivers who are involved with kinship care placements. We will go over the various pathways to kinship care, and the unique challenges faced by both caregivers and children in these arrangements. Please register here.

    Summer Seminar: Advancing Justice Through Legislation

    Zoom

    Join Chantel Johnson-Crockrom, YLC Consultant, for a one-hour Lunch and Learn presentation that will cover how to use legislative advocacy as a tool for systems change, including “how a bill becomes a law” as well as important historical budgetary and legislative trends. Also included is a crash course in legislative advocacy, how you can use […]

    Summer Seminar: Making California’s Foster Care Funding Work for Young People

    Zoom

    This session will look at efforts in California to make foster care funding work to help better support youth in the foster care system. We will focus on youth driven efforts to fundamentally change the way foster care funding works in California, including youth engagement and leadership in the development of the new rates system, […]

    Summer Seminar: Civil Legal Aid for Systems-Involved Youth/TAY

    Zoom

    Join YLC Senior Attorney Marisa Lopez-Scott to learn more about common civil legal aid issues for youth impacted by the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. The presentation will cover best practices for working with TAY and effective advocacy strategies to ensure youth have access to housing, education, benefits, healthcare services, and more. Please register […]

    Summer Seminar: The Advocates‘ Toolbox: Litigation, Legislation, Finance, and Systems Reform

    Zoom

    This session looks at different tools available to advocates to bring about systems change. Using real world examples, we will investigate the pros, cons, and consequences of using different tools for specific situations. We will discuss using public sector financing to empower youth and families, narrative to bring equity to kin and families, preventive litigation […]