Foster care

This Guide is intended to be a practical tool that can be used by attorneys...

Categories: Child Welfare, Congregate care, Disposition/placement, Foster care, Group Homes/Non-Secure Placement, Juvenile Justice, Legal Representation, Permanency planning, Placement/Confinement, Practice standards/guides, Relatives/kinship care

This comprehensive fact sheet outlines legal strategies and resources to overcome common barriers facing relative...

Categories: Foster care, Kinship/guardianship, Relatives/kinship care

All youth in foster care are eligible for Medi-Cal, but not all youth in foster...

Categories: Foster care, Medicaid/Medi-Cal, Mental Health

This fact sheet provides an overview of presumptive transfer of Medi-Cal in the circumstance in...

Categories: Foster care, Medicaid/Medi-Cal, Mental Health

This report reflects on the first year since the closure of the Warren E. Thornton...

Categories: Child Welfare, Congregate care, Foster care, Group Homes/Non-Secure Placement, Health, Legal/policy issues, Mental Health, Placement/Confinement, Relatives/kinship care, Standards/enforcement

In California, outside of juvenile dependency and delinquency representation, there are few civil legal aid...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Education, Foster care, Foster Care Benefits, Health, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice, Legal Representation, Practice standards/guides, Public Benefits/Funding

Homelessness and housing/placement instability for current foster youth, youth in extended foster care and former...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice

The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) oversees the Guaranteed Income (GI) Pilot Program and...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Foster Care Benefits, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice, Public Benefits/Funding

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Categories: Child Welfare, Foster care, Foster parents

A Statement by Youth Law Center and California Youth Connection in Support of Trailer Bill...

Categories: Foster care, Foster Care Benefits, Foster parents

This document provides a list of the key provisions of federal law to support advocacy...

Categories: AB 12, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition

This fact sheet provides an update for child welfare agencies and juvenile probation departments about...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Juvenile Justice, Transitional Medicaid

This fact sheet describes how Public Housing Authorities can partner with child welfare and juvenile...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Juvenile Justice, Transitional Medicaid

This fact sheet describes how judges can help ensure that young people are connected with...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice

This fact sheet describes how advocates can assist young people in accessing an FYI or...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice

This fact sheet describes how young people can get assistance and access to FYI vouchers....

Categories: AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice

This fact sheet explains how landlords can work with stakeholders to provide housing units to...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice

This fact sheet details how the child welfare agency and juvenile probation department can partner...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice

This toolkit contains fact sheets for the following stakeholders: young people, public housing authorities, public...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice

This fact sheet provides an update for child welfare agencies and juvenile probation departments about...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice

This template can be used by a young person to ask that the child welfare...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Foster Care Benefits, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice

This template can be used to request information from a child welfare agency that has...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice

This template can be used by an advocate or attorney to ask that the child...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice

This fact sheet describes how members of the City Council can support the development of...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice

This fact sheet describes how members of the Board of Supervisors can support the development...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice

This fact sheet describes how Public Housing Authorities in California can partner with child welfare...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice

This fact sheet describes how judges can help ensure that young people are connected with...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice

This fact sheet describes how advocates in California can assist young people in accessing an...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice

This fact sheet describes how young people can get assistance and access FYI vouchers.

Categories: AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice

This fact sheet explains how landlords in California can work with stakeholders to provide housing...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice

This fact sheet details how the child welfare agency and juvenile probation department can partner...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice

Most foster parents in California, including relatives, have the right to take leave from work...

Categories: Babies/young children, Child Welfare, Foster care, Foster parents, Public Benefits/Funding, Relatives/kinship care

A general fact sheet about the FYI/FUP Programs for young people nationwide.

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition

A document to provide judges with questions and guidelines to help them make decisions to...

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition

This document provides a summary and update on federal laws that are introduced in Congress...

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Public Benefits/Funding

Funded by Tipping Point Community, On the Threshold of Change is the first-ever report to...

Categories: Adolescence, Child Welfare, Child/Adolescent Development, Early childhood, Foster care

Funded by Tipping Point Community, On the Threshold of Change is the first-ever report to...

Categories: Adolescence, Child Welfare, Child/Adolescent Development, Early childhood, Foster care

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care

This resource reviews frequently asked questions about the process by which grandparents can become foster/resource families to...

Categories: Child Welfare, Foster care, Relatives/kinship care

The court plays a central role in ensuring that young people have an adequate transition...

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition

This is a resource that has been developed by the Youth Law Center to respond...

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Public Benefits/Funding

The purpose of this document is to provide insight to stakeholders in California on successful...

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition

Research has conclusively demonstrated that court-involved children and adolescents present with extremely high rates of...

Categories: Child Welfare, Child/Adolescent Development, Foster care, Juvenile Justice

Once fully implemented, the FAFSA Simplification Act (FSA) will represent a significant overhaul of how...

Categories: Child Welfare, Education, Foster care

Many counties in California are grappling with emergency housing needs for older youth in foster...

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care

Hoja informativa de Legal Aid at Work y Youth Law Center sobre los derechos de...

Categories: Child Welfare, Foster care, Foster parents

Fact sheet from Legal Aid at Work and Youth Law Center about foster parents' rights...

Categories: Child Welfare, Foster care, Foster parents

This advocacy tool and worksheet was developed to help state advocates navigate the current state...

Categories: Access to care, Child Welfare, Foster care, Health, Medicaid/Medi-Cal

The National Association of Counsel For Children (NACC) recently released the 4th edition of its...

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Legal Representation

The Community Care Licensing Division (CCLD) of the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) is...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Child Welfare, Congregate care, Foster care, Group Homes/Non-Secure Placement, Inspection/assessment material, Juvenile Justice, Placement/Confinement, Standards/enforcement

The Community Care Licensing Division (CCLD) of the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) is...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Child Welfare, Congregate care, Foster care, Group Homes/Non-Secure Placement, Inspection/assessment material, Juvenile Justice, Placement/Confinement, Standards/enforcement

Youth Law Center’s TAY Practice Exchange is a free practice support network for civil legal...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12, Access to care, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Education, Equity Issues, Foster care, Foster Care Benefits, Girls, Health, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice, LGBTQ, Medicaid/Medi-Cal, Mental Health, Mental health needs, Public Benefits/Funding, Specific services/programs, SSI/Social Security

This toolkit contains fact sheets for the following stakeholders in California: young people, public housing...

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Public Benefits/Funding

Categories: Child Welfare, Foster care

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care

The Foster Care Social Security and Supplemental Security Income Assistance Program (created by AB 1633...

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice, Public Benefits/Funding, SSI/Social Security

This resource contains template letters to request information and actions related to foster youth clients,...

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice, Public Benefits/Funding, SSI/Social Security

This fact sheet, updated in 2023, outlines California law related to transition jurisdiction in juvenile...

Categories: Child Welfare, Foster care, Juvenile Justice

Homelessness both during extended foster care and after leaving extended foster care are critical issues...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice

Homelessness and housing/placement instability are a critical issue facing transition-aged youth in California. Despite broad...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice

Homelessness both during extended foster care and after leaving extended foster care are critical issues...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice

This supplement to the Youth Law Center Presentation: Advocacy Strategies for Preventing Involuntary Exits from THP-NMD provides a...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice

This supplement to the Youth Law Center Presentation: Advocacy Strategies for Preventing Involuntary Exits from THP-NMD provides...

Categories: AB 12, AB 12 Probation, Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice

This resource provides guidance on how to assist youth who cannot obtain parental information to...

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Education, Education Access, Foster care, Juvenile Justice

This document provides information on how state child welfare agencies can request unspent Chafee funds. This opportunity...

Categories: Child Welfare, Foster care

This fact sheet provides resources to help advocates support young people in foster care navigate...

Categories: Access to care, Child Welfare, Foster care, Health

This publication provides an update on funding that the state has made available to county...

Categories: Child Welfare, Congregate care, Foster care, Health, Mental Health

This resource alert provides an update related to older foster youth access to Medicaid. The...

Categories: Access to care, Child Welfare, Foster care, Health, Medicaid/Medi-Cal, Public Benefits/Funding

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Education, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition

Categories: Child Welfare, Education, Foster care

Foster Care Benefits: AFDC-FC Program Change Alert

Categories: Child Welfare, Foster care, Foster Care Benefits, Public Benefits/Funding

Kinship Guardianship Assistance Program Fact Sheet

Categories: Child Welfare, Foster care, Kinship/guardianship, Relatives/kinship care

Categories: Babies/young children, Child Welfare, Foster care

Rights of Pregnant and Parenting Foster Youth in California - A Fact Sheet Prepared by...

Categories: Child Welfare, Foster care, Teen parenting

The following template letters can be used as part of your advocacy to (1) request...

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Public Benefits/Funding

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Legal Representation, Public Benefits/Funding

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Legal Representation, Permanency planning, Public Benefits/Funding

Categories: Child Welfare, Foster care

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Public Benefits/Funding

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care

A few things you can do to help transition aged youth with experience in the...

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Public Benefits/Funding

Foster Care Overview Fact Sheet

Categories: Foster care

Categories: Child Welfare, Foster care

Categories: Child Welfare, Foster care

Did you know that the California state budget recently made changes to the eligibility requirements...

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition

The Youth Law Center joins a coalition of child welfare advocates in requesting Governor Newsom...

Categories: Foster care

Providing Normalcy for California Foster Youth

Categories: Foster care

This fact sheet describing AB 2813, a bill that would protect children and youth in...

Categories: Congregate care, Foster care, Legal/policy issues

Letter to Governor Brown requesting signature on AB 2813, a bill to protect children and...

Categories: Congregate care, Foster care, Legal/policy issues

Letter from Jennifer Rodriguez to Commissioner Sanders appearing as an appendix to final report of...

Categories: Access to care, Babies/young children, Early childhood, Foster care, Foster parents, Health care needs, Mental health needs, Specific services/programs, Specific services/programs

Key Findings and Recommendations of the report: Within Our Reach: A National Strategy to Eliminate...

Categories: Access to care, Babies/young children, Early childhood, Foster care, Foster parents, Health care needs, Mental health needs, Specific services/programs, Specific services/programs

Final report by the Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities.

Categories: Access to care, Babies/young children, Early childhood, Foster care, Foster parents, Health care needs, Specific services/programs

Final report by the Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities.

Categories: Access to care, Babies/young children, Early childhood, Foster care, Foster parents, Health care needs, Specific services/programs

Article on the work of the Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities

Categories: Foster care

Proclamation by President Obama naming May 2015 National Foster Care Month

Categories: Foster care, Foster parents, Permanency planning

Fact sheet on educational rights of pregnant or parenting teens.

Categories: "Know your rights", A.B. 490/foster care education, Foster care, Teen parenting

YLC co-authored this study which showed greater commitment of foster parents to children than group...

Categories: Congregate care, Foster care

This booklet, based on California law, covers some of the concerns of a youth in...

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

Letter to Assembly Member Wesley Chesbro co-sponsoring SB 388

Categories: Congregate care, Dual jurisdiction, Foster care

Text of AB 388, bill requiring oversight on the use of law enforcement in group...

Categories: Congregate care, Dual jurisdiction, Foster care

In recent years, courts and child welfare systems around the country have recognized the importance...

Categories: Foster care, Juvenile records/court proceedings, Practice standards/guides

The Youth Law Center joined with over 35 national child welfare and mental organizations to...

Categories: Foster care, Health care needs, Mental health needs, Specific Services

The Youth Law Center joined with over 35 national child welfare and mental organizations to...

Categories: Foster care, Health care needs, Mental health needs, Specific Services

On August 30, 2011, Jennifer Rodriguez and Maria Ramiu presented a webinar on “Probation Provisions...

Categories: AB 12, Disposition/placement, Foster care

This chart describes what will be covered at each QPI meeting, who is to attend...

Categories: Foster care, Foster parents, Relatives/kinship care

The purpose of this All County Information Notice (ACIN) is to provide information regarding the...

Categories: Foster care, Foster parents, Relatives/kinship care

This article, written by Carole Shauffer, describes what QPI is.

Categories: Foster care, Foster parents, Relatives/kinship care

Filed in December 2003, Wheeler v. Sanders alleged that Los Angeles County violated state and...

Categories: Foster care, Relatives/kinship care

Filed in December 2003, Wheeler v. Sanders alleged that Los Angeles County violated state and...

Categories: Foster care, Relatives/kinship care

Warren v. Saenz was a taxpayer action alleging that the California Department of Social Services...

Categories: Foster care, Inspection/assessment material

Warren v. Saenz was a taxpayer action alleging that the California Department of Social Services...

Categories: Foster care, Inspection/assessment material

Ward v. Kearney was a federal class action lawsuit that alleged that Broward County's foster...

Categories: Foster care

Ward v. Kearney was a federal class action lawsuit that alleged that Broward County's foster...

Categories: Foster care

Timothy J. v. Chaffee challenged the failure of the Los Angeles County Department of Children's...

Categories: Foster care

Timothy J. v. Chaffee challenged the failure of the Los Angeles County Department of Children's...

Categories: Foster care

Susan C. v. Florida Department of Children and Family Services, filed in state court in...

Categories: Foster care

Susan C. v. Florida Department of Children and Family Services, filed in state court in...

Categories: Foster care

Susan C. v. Florida Department of Children and Family Services, filed in state court in...

Categories: Foster care

Rene M. v. Anderson was filed as a writ of mandate to require that the...

Categories: Foster care, Health care needs

Rene M. v. Anderson was filed as a writ of mandate to require that the...

Categories: Foster care, Health care needs

This lawsuit challenged Alameda County’s failure to comply with the minimum child welfare health and...

Categories: Foster care

This lawsuit challenged Alameda County’s failure to comply with the minimum child welfare health and...

Categories: Foster care

Booraem v. Orange County, filed in August 1998, challenged the detention of abused and neglected...

Categories: Congregate care, Foster care, Legal/policy issues

Booraem v. Orange County, filed in August 1998, challenged the detention of abused and neglected...

Categories: Congregate care, Foster care, Legal/policy issues

Bohler v. Anderson was filed in June 1997 over the failure of the Department of...

Categories: Foster care, Inspection/assessment material

Bohler v. Anderson was filed in June 1997 over the failure of the Department of...

Categories: Foster care, Inspection/assessment material

The Youth Law Center was co-sponsor of the 2009 California Working Families Policy Summit, held...

Categories: Foster care

The Youth Law Center was co-sponsor of the 2009 California Working Families Policy Summit, held...

Categories: Access to care/EPSDT, Congregate care, Foster care

The Youth Law Center joined fourteen other children's advocacy organizations in an amicus brief filed...

Categories: Foster care

This three-page fact sheet explains the rights of children and youth in foster care to...

Categories: Child Welfare, Foster care, Relatives/kinship care

This fact sheet describes what overpayments are and what the rules are if the overpayments...

Categories: Adoption, Adoption assistance, Foster care, Kinship/guardianship, Title IV-E funding

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

Categories: Foster care

This powerpoint covers issues related to the eligibility of foster youth for programs designed to...

Categories: English learner/migrant/homeless, Foster care

The May/June 2012 issue of Fostering Families Today features an article on Youth Law Center's...

Categories: Foster care, Foster parents, Relatives/kinship care

The Clearinghouse Review has published an update on The Fostering Connections Act written by YLC...

Categories: Adoption assistance, Foster care, Kinship/guardianship, Title IV-E funding

YLC staff attorneys Jennifer Rodriguez and Alice Bussiere co-authored an article with Juvenile Law Center...

Categories: Adoption assistance, Foster care, Kinship/guardianship, Title IV-E funding

This Standing Order addresses the exchange of information between the Fresno County Department of Children...

Categories: Enrollment/re-entry, Foster care, Information Sharing

This BASSC Monograph examines the current needs of youth aging out of the foster care...

Categories: Foster care, Independent Living/Transition

Older adolescents leaving foster care still face tremendous obstacles as they make the transition to...

Categories: Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Permanency planning

An update of our earlier publication, Making Reasonable Efforts: Steps for Keeping Families Together, this...

Categories: Foster care

A booklet in question and answer format that serves as a guide for judges in...

Categories: Foster care

The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (which included Justice Souter sitting...

Categories: Foster care