Prioritizing Kin and Family Connections
Youth Law Center advocates that child welfare and juvenile justice systems prioritize placing children and youth with their families whenever […]
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Ensuring and Advancing Access to Mental Health Services for Youth Impacted by Foster Care, Juvenile Justice and/or Homelessness
The Youth Law Center advocates to ensure and advance access to critical mental and behavioral health services that allow youth
California Foster Care Rates Reform
In 2024, the Youth Law Center achieved a transformative victory in California with the passage of a new foster care
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Applying Adolescent Development and Lived Experience to Explore New Ways and Policies to Help Teens in Foster Care Thrive
This project, in partnership with the Andrus Family Fund, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, the Manuel D. & Rhoda Mayerson
Advocacy to Ensure Developmentally Appropriate Transitions for Children and Youth in Foster Care
One critical issue our Quality Parenting Initiative (QPI) sites have identified across the country is the trauma children experience when
Youth In Foster Care Won Big Last Year—Now We Need to Speak Up Again!
Last year, young people in California’s foster care system helped win a huge victory! In 2024, after lots of advocacy
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Quality Parenting Initiative: Changing Foster Care from the Inside Out
We believe when foster care is necessary, it must be rooted in love, developmental research, and excellent parenting. That belief
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Bridging the Digital Divide for Youth in Foster Care
In today’s digital world, lacking access to cell phones and the internet poses tremendous barriers for young people in foster
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December 2024: Chafee Foster Care Independence Program 25th Anniversary Celebration
Youth Law Center joined over 35 changemakers and lived experts from 13 national organizations in Washington, D.C. for a special
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Empowering Teens in Foster Care
Bridging Developmental Science, Advocacy, and Philanthropy to Improve the Lives of Teens in Foster Care The Youth Law Center’s Quality Parenting
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12/6/2024 Fresno Man Honored For Improving Foster Care Services
The Quality Parenting Initiative (QPI) of the Youth Law Center recognized a Fresno man as a 2024 Elevate and Celebrate
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10/29/24: Youth Law Center’s Jennifer Rodriguez’s Interview with the Akonadi Foundation
For our latest spotlight featuring leaders from our All In for Oakland grantee partners, I had the pleasure of speaking
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