Rights of Pregnant and Parenting Foster Youth in California – A Fact Sheet Prepared by the Youth Law Center
Building on the Momentum: How Appropriate Implementation of Community Based Supports Can Help Youth with Complex Care Needs
Senate Sub Committee 3 – YLC Testimony
Closing the Extracurriculars Gap: Prioritizing Extracurricular Activities as a Key Intervention for Children and Youth in Foster Care and Juvenile Justice
This Youth Law Center report describes the benefits of extracurricular participation for youth, families, and communities; highlights the legal and policy supports for extracurricular participation for system-involved youth; lists system barriers to extracurricular participation; explores ways to overcome those barriers; and makes recommendations to increase extracurricular participation for system-involved youth. The report notes that extracurriculars […]
Letter from Jennifer Rodriguez to Commissioner Sanders
Letter from Jennifer Rodriguez to Commissioner Sanders appearing as an appendix to final report of CECAMF
Fact Sheet: Within Our Reach: A National Strategy to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities
Key Findings and Recommendations of the report: Within Our Reach: A National Strategy to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities
Within Our Reach: A National Strategy to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities
Final report by the Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities.
Within Our Reach: A National Strategy to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities
Final report by the Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities.
Just Beginning Issue Sheet
Sheet describing the need for the Just Beginning Program; the benefits the program provides both the infant/child and the incarcerated father.
Delivering Services to Incarcerated Teen Fathers: A Pilot Intervention to Increase the Quality of Father-Infant Interactions During Visitation
Article appearing in Psychological Services concerning analysis of a pilot intervention, the Baby Elmo or Just Beginnings Program, which provides incarcerated teen fathers with parenting training and visitation with their children and their infants. The study looked at 41 incarcerated teen fathers and their infants ranging from 1 to 15 months. During individual sessions, a […]
Educational Rights as a Pregnant or Parenting Teen
Fact sheet on educational rights of pregnant or parenting teens.
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 was tried as an adult.
My Brother’s Keeper Task Force Report to the President May 2014
First Progress Report to the President by the My Brother’s Keeper Task Force Initiative on fatherhood. Report reference work of YLC’s Baby Elmo Program.
KPCC Interview with Ben Richeda on Baby Elmo Program – article
This is an interview with Ben Richeda broadcast on KPCC, 89.3 on March 20, 2014 about the Baby Elmo Program.
KPCC Bably Elmo Interview
This is a short interview on Radio Station KPCC 89.3 in Los Angeles, broadcast March 30, 2014, interviewing Ben Richeda about the Baby Elmo Program.
Developing an Effective Intervention for Incarcerated Teen Fathers – The Baby Elmo Program
The absence of a father figure has been linked to very poor developmental outcomes. The Baby Elmo Program, a parenting and structured visitation program, aims to form and maintain bonds between children and their incarcerated teen fathers. The program is taught and supervised by probation staff in juvenile detention facilities. This intervention is based on […]
The Baby Elmo Program: Improving Teen Father–Child Interactions within Juvenile Justice Facilities
The aim of the Baby Elmo Program is to establish a low-cost, sustainable parenting and structured visitation program for non-custodial incarcerated teen parents. The program is taught and supervised by probation staff in juvenile detention facilities and unlike traditional programs, this intervention is not based on increasing the teen’s abstract parenting knowledge, but rather in […]
Juveniles in Custody Taught Parenting Skills
The Sacramento Press articie profiles the Baby Elmo Program that teaches parenting skills to incarcerated juveniles.
County’s Baby Elmo Program Reunites Incarcerated Teen Parents with Their Children
Noozhawk article highlights the success of the Baby Elmo Program in teaching parenting skills to incarcerated juveniles with children.
Rehabilitative Program Strengthens Family Bonds
This Daily Nexus article discusses how the Bably Elmo Program is strengthening family bonds between infants and their parents in juvenile detention facilities.
Teen Dads Behind Bars Receive Parenting Skills with the Baby Elmo Program
An ABC local news station in Cleveland, Ohio highlights the success of our Baby Elmo Program about how incarcerated juvenile fathers are gaining parenting skills.
Classes Turning Incarcerated Juvenile Fathers into Dads
The Chronicle of Social Change article features our Baby Elmo Program and its role in reduing recidivism and strengthening connections.
Parenting During Adolescence – Power point Presentation
Power point presentation that accompanies the video, “Parenting During Adolescence.”
Foster Care for Young Children, Why It Must Be Developmentally Informed
The Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry published this article entitled, Foster Care for Young Children: Why It Must Be Developmentally Informed, in their December issue. It was written by Youth Law Center’s Executive Director, Carole Shauffer, Dr. Charles H. Zeanah with the Institute of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, […]
Rights of Teen Parents in the Juvenile Justice System – YLC Fact Sheet
Youth who come in contact with the juvenile justice system may also be parents. This fact sheet addresses what are the youth’s rights as a parent within the juvenile justice system.