Conditions Advocacy in Foster Care & Juvenile Justice Through Statewide Reform

With more than four decades of experience in institutional litigation, involvement in developing licensing standards, and responding to conditions questions and complaints, Youth Law Center works to improve the conditions, care and treatment of children in system custody locally, statewide, and nationally. YLC’s advocacy has stopped children from being subjected to illegal or inhumane conditions in juvenile detention and foster care facilities such as use of solitary confinement, improper use of restraints, pepper spray or searches, physical and sexual abuse of children as well as failure to provide family contact, medical care, mental health, education and special education services.