Resource Library

Our searchable online resource library is an important component of our designation by the State Bar of California as a legal aid Support Center that provides legal training, legal technical assistance, and advocacy support without charge to the legal community, and specifically to California’s qualified legal services programs. Our resource library includes Youth Law Center publications, including fact sheets, legal guides, litigation materials, and other reference materials supporting legal advocacy in a variety of different areas for children and youth in the foster care and juvenile justice systems.

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December 15, 2014

Juvenile Justice Can Be Less Expensive and More Effective

Op-ed by YLC Staff Attorney Sue Burrell on the cost of juvenile detention published by the Sacramento Bee

Categories: Alternatives to incarceration/JDAI, Collateral consequences, Detention, Disposition/placement, Juvenile justice legal issues, Legal/policy analyses, Realignment of resources

November 6, 2014

Legal Rights of Teens in Out of Home Care (2014)

This booklet, based on California law, covers some of the concerns of a youth in out-of-home care, including types of […]

Categories: "Know your rights", AB 12, AB 12, Access to care/EPSDT, Alternatives to incarceration/JDAI, Congregate care, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Inmate Exclusion, Kinship/guardianship, Legal Rights/Placement, Mental Health Services Act, Permanency planning, Placement delay, Relatives/kinship care, Specific Services, SSI/Social Security, Title IV-E funding, Transitional Medicaid

October 29, 2014

California takes on harsh discipline and academic inequities for black, latino students

Article by Center for Public Integrity on school discipline and push out of Black and Latino youth in California’s education […]

Categories: Alternative education, Discipline/truancy

October 27, 2014

Letter from YLC sponsoring AB 388

Letter to Assembly Member Wesley Chesbro co-sponsoring SB 388

Categories: Congregate care, Dual jurisdiction, Foster care

October 27, 2014

AB 388 Chaptered Text

Text of AB 388, bill requiring oversight on the use of law enforcement in group homes, limiting the unnecessary secure […]

Categories: Congregate care, Dual jurisdiction, Foster care

October 22, 2014

Prison for Teen Who Lit “Agender” Youth’s Skirt on Fire Thwarts Healing

Blog, by Youth Law Center Staff Attorney Sue Burrell, for the Huffington Post, on the sentencing of a teen who […]

Categories: Adolescence, Disposition/placement, LGBTQ, Trying juveniles as adults

October 20, 2014

Chaptered Text AB 2276

Text of AB 2276

Categories: Enrollment/re-entry

October 20, 2014

YLC Letter in Support of AB 2276

Letter in Support of AB 2276, a bill addressing the re-enrollment rights of juvenile justice youth.

Categories: Enrollment/re-entry

October 20, 2014

SB 1111 Chaptered Text

The text of SB 1111 addressing transfer rights of students referred to county community schools.

Categories: Alternative education, Enrollment/re-entry

October 20, 2014

YLC Letter in Support of SB 1111

Letter by YLC Staff Attorney Deborah Escobedo requesting the Governor’s signature on SB 1111. This bill addresses the transfer rights […]

Categories: Alternative education, Enrollment/re-entry

September 22, 2014

Op-Ed: Incarcerating Disturbed Youth Is a Flawed Response

YLC staff attorney Sue Burrell, wrote an op ed piece for the CT Mirror, Incarcerating Disturbed Youth is a Flawed […]

Categories: Alternatives to incarceration/JDAI, Detention, LGBTQ

September 19, 2014

Press Release

Press Release Regarding Opposition to Closure of Santa Barbara Juvenile Court.

Categories: Juvenile records/court proceedings