Group Homes/Non-Secure Placement

Advocating for the Most Connected Placement: A Guide to Reducing the Use of Group 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

Moving Away from Unlicensed Care and Emergency Placements in Sacramento County: Daniels v. County of Sacramento Progress...

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

Community Care Licensing (CCL) Complaints: An Overview for Advocates

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

Template Community Care Licensing Complaint

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

ALERT: Examples of How AB 153 Funding and Medicaid Can be Used to Support Family Based Settings

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

FFPSA: Advocacy and Enforcement Template Letters

A host of new “Complex Care” supports and forms of assistance have been put into...

Categories: Child Welfare, Group Homes/Non-Secure Placement, Legal Representation, Placement/Confinement

Youth Returning to the Community from Juvenile Justice Facilities: A Guide for Advocates

No child should remain in custody due to the lack of a reentry plan. Now...

Categories: Access to care, Aging Out/Transition, Detention, Disposition/placement, Education, Group Homes/Non-Secure Placement, Health, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice, Mental Health, Placement/Confinement, Public Benefits/Funding, Reducing Incarceration, Secure Juvenile Facilities

Guide to Online Information on California Licensed and Out of State Facilities

Guide to Online Information on California Licensed and Out of State Facilities

Categories: Standards/enforcement

Emergency Planning Toolkit for Youth in Congregate Care

Youth Law Center has developed an emergency planning resource to support attorneys and advocates working...

Categories: Congregate care

Ensuring Accountability and Transparency for Out-of-State Facilities

Ensuring Accountability and Transparency for Out-of-State Facilities

Categories: Standards/enforcement

Youth Arrests in Group Homes and Shelters

Youth Arrests in Group Homes and Shelters Handout

Categories: Legal/policy issues

AB 2813 Fact Sheet – Equitable Standards for Foster Youth

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

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

AB 2813 – Letter to Gov. Brown – request for signature

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

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

AB 2005 Fact Sheet

Fact Sheet on AB 2005; a bill that will put restrictions on out of state...

Categories: Congregate care, Legal/policy issues

AB 2005 – Request for Signature

Letter to Governor Brown Requesting Signature on AB 2005, a bill which will ensure that...

Categories: Congregate care, Legal/policy issues

Press Release

Press release: Robin Goldfaden and Javier Stauring Join YLC

Categories: Legal/policy issues

State Policies on Non-Family Foster Care Settings

This paper surveys state policies that restrict congregate care for children and youth in the...

Categories: Congregate care

Request for Signature – AB 403

Letter to Governor Brown requesting signature on AB 403 (congregate care reform bill).

Categories: Congregate care

Investigations of CA Group Homes Marked By Delays and Uncertainty

ProPublica article about California Department of Social Services' failure to timely and conclusively investigate hundreds...

Categories: Congregate care, Inspection/assessment material, Standards/enforcement

Senate panel examines why California foster system addicted to psychiatric drugs

Article about February 24, 2015 hearing before the Human Services Committee about the over-use of...

Categories: Mental health needs, Specific services/programs, Standards/enforcement

I want to be there when he graduates: Foster parents show higher levels of commitment than group care providers

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

Categories: Congregate care, Foster care

AB 388: What Group Home Staff Need to Know

Fact Sheet on AB 388: What Group Home Staff Need to Know. AB...

Categories: Congregate care, Detention, Inspection/assessment material, Legal/policy issues, Standards/enforcement

AB 388: What Youth Advocates Need to Know

Fact Sheet on AB 388: What Youth Advocates Need to Know. AB 388,...

Categories: Congregate care, Detention, Inspection/assessment material, Legal/policy issues, Standards/enforcement

AB 388: New Protections for Youth In Group Homes

Fact Sheet on AB 388, a new law taking effect January 1, 2015, designed to...

Categories: Congregate care, Detention, Inspection/assessment material, Legal/policy issues, Standards/enforcement

AB 388: What Social Workers Need to Know

Fact sheet for social workers on AB 388: a new law taking effect January 1,...

Categories: Congregate care, Detention, Inspection/assessment material, Legal/policy issues, Standards/enforcement

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...

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 from YLC sponsoring AB 388

Letter to Assembly Member Wesley Chesbro co-sponsoring SB 388

Categories: Congregate care, Dual jurisdiction, Foster care

AB 388 Chaptered Text

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

Categories: Congregate care, Dual jurisdiction, Foster care

Consensus statement on group care for children and adolescents: A statement of policy of the American Orthopsychiatric A...

Abstract

Categories: Congregate care

Jones-Mason v. Anderson Stipulation to Stay Proceedings

Jones-Mason v. Anderson was filed in December 1996 against the State Department of Social Services...

Categories: Standards/enforcement

Jones-Mason v. Anderson Stipulated Modification

Jones-Mason v. Anderson was filed in December 1996 against the State Department of Social Services...

Categories: Standards/enforcement

YLC Letter to Commissioner Susan Hamilton re Congregate Care for Young Children

Since 2009, the Youth Law Center has been working with Connecticut advocates to reduce group...

Categories: Babies/young children, Congregate care

Warren v. Saenz Peremptory Writ of Mandate

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

Categories: Foster care, Inspection/assessment material

Warren v. Saenz Petition for Writ and Complaint

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

Categories: Foster care, Inspection/assessment material

Jones-Mason v. Anderson Petition

Jones-Mason v. Anderson was filed in December 1996 against the State Department of Social Services...

Categories: Standards/enforcement

Booraem v. Orange County Settlement Agreement

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 Complaint and Petition for Writ of Mandate

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 Order Granting Writ of Mandate

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

Categories: Foster care, Inspection/assessment material

Bohler v. Anderson Petition for Writ of Mandate

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

Categories: Foster care, Inspection/assessment material

Recommendations on Children in Foster Care – California Working Families Policy Summit

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

Institutions vs. Foster Homes: The Empirical Base for a Century of Action

This is an important report on recent research comparing the advantages and disadvantages of institutional...

Categories: Congregate care