Resource Library

Grandparent Visitation Rights in Foster Care – YLC Fact Sheet

This two-page fact sheet explains the visitation rights of grandparents who have grandchildren in the...

Categories: Relatives/kinship care

Foster Care Education Fact Sheets (California Foster Youth Education Task Force)

These are mostly one page fact sheets that were developed by the California Foster Youth Education Taskforce...

Categories: A.B. 490/foster care education

DJJ’s Implementation of AB 1628 Transferring Post-Release Supervision to County Probation

This memo summarizes a presentation at a public meeting of the Juvenile Parole Board (JPB)...

Categories: Disposition/placement, Juveniles in Jails/Prisons

Juvenile Law: Confidentiality of Records

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

Categories: Juvenile records/court proceedings

AB 938 Fact Sheet

AB 938 provides for early identification and notification of relatives of children who have removed...

Categories: Relatives/kinship care

SB 114 Fact Sheet

SB 114 will simplified the process for former foster youth to maintain their Medi-Cal eligibility.

Categories: Access to care

AB 47 Fact Sheet

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

Categories: Adoption assistance

AB 154 Fact Sheet

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

Categories: Adoption, Adoption assistance

AB 12 Fact Sheet

AB 12, the California Fostering Connections to Success Act, is co-sponsored by the Youth Law...

Categories: Foster care

Youth Law Center Analysis of DJJ Parole Realignment to the Counties

On October 19, 2010, the Public Safety budget trailer bill, A.B. 1628, was signed into...

Categories: Parole, Realignment of resources

The Prison Rape Elimination Act Standards – Comments from Youth Advocates on Minimum Staffing Ratios in Juvenile F...

Youth Law Center joined other advocacy organizations in submitting formal comments to Attorney General Eric...

Categories: Standards/enforcement

Step 6 – Children in the Child Welfare System – Tools for Promoting Educational Success and Reducing Delinquency

According to the National Center on Education, Disability and Juvenile Justice, the Tools for Success,...

Categories: A.B. 490/foster care education, Enrollment/re-entry, Special education