Health
Advocacy Tool: Reproductive Health Care Access for Young People with Experience in Foster Care
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
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Trainings and Workshops from Youth Law Center’s Transition-Aged Youth (TAY) Civil Legal Practice Exchange (Fall 2020 &...
Youth Law Center’s TAY Practice Exchange is a free practice support network for civil legal advocates across...
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
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Information and Resources to Support Reproductive Health Access for Young People with Experience in 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
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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
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SUPPORT Act Implementation Resource
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
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Building on the Momentum: How Appropriate Implementation of Community Based Supports Can Help Youth with Complex Care Ne...
Categories: Child Welfare, Child/Adolescent Development, Health, Juvenile Justice, Medicaid/Medi-Cal, Public Benefits/Funding
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S 2689 FAQ
Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Health, Transitional Medicaid
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Senate Sub Committee 3 – YLC Testimony
Categories: Child Welfare, Child/Adolescent Development, Health
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Medicaid/Medi-Cal for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System Fact Sheet
Medicaid/Medi-Cal for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
Categories: Specific services/programs
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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
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Job Announcement – Director of Finance and Administration
Job Announcement - Director of Finance and Administration
Categories: Specific services/programs
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Job Announcement – Development and Communications Coordinator
Job Description for Development and Communications Coordinator
Categories: Specific services/programs
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AB 1849 – Request for Signature
Letter to Governor Brown requesting signature on AB 1849, a bill intended to reduce barriers...
Categories: Access to care, Access to care/EPSDT, Transitional Medicaid
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Job Annoucement – Policy Advocate
Job Announcement for Policy Advocate
Categories: Specific services/programs
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Job Annoucement – Staff Attorney Position
Job Announcement for experience staff attorney
Categories: Specific services/programs
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Letter from Jennifer Rodriguez to Commissioner Sanders
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
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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...
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
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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.
Categories: Access to care, Babies/young children, Early childhood, Foster care, Foster parents, Health care needs, Specific services/programs
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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.
Categories: Access to care, Babies/young children, Early childhood, Foster care, Foster parents, Health care needs, Specific services/programs
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Psychotropic sign -on letter
Letter to Senators Reid and McConnell, signed by 100 advocacy organizations, urging support of new...
Categories: Health care needs
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Letter Supporting Bicameral Therapeutic Foster Care Bills
This letter supports passage of S. 1992 and H.R. 4016, bipartisan, bicameral bills, also known...
Categories: Access to care
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PILP Letter with FNS re FNS’ Proposed Regulations to Implement the Fleeing Felon Provisions
Public Interest Law Project's comments on USDA's proposed Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) regulation which...
Categories: Nutrition
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NSCLC Letter to FNS re Proposed Rule: Clarification of Eligibility of Fleeing Felons
Comments of the National Senior Citizens Law Center and the Western Center on Law and...
Categories: Nutrition
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LSNC Letter to FNS re Comments, Fleeing Felon Proposed Regulations
This letter contains LSNC's comments to the proposed regulations to Clarify the Eligibility of Fleeing...
Categories: Nutrition
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YLC Letter to FNS Re YLC Comments on Proposed FNS Rule re Eligibility of Fleeing Felons
YLC writes to support the effort to clarify the SNAP eligibility criteria and to make...
Categories: Nutrition
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PRA Letters to Several Counties re Developmentally Delayed Individuals in the Juvenile Justice System
Letters to several county probation departments requesting information about the developmental delayed individuals in their...
Categories: Developmental disabilities
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Developmental Disabilities in California Juvenile Justice Proceedings
This is a short primer on legal issues that may come up in California juvenile...
Categories: Developmental disabilities
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County Responses to Public Records Act Request re Alta California Regional Center’s Juvenile Clients
County responses to the Public Records Act request for copies of all public records, including...
Categories: Developmental disabilities
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Youth with Developmental Disabilities in the Juvenile Justice System – Power point Presentation
This power point presentation summarizes the results of a survey of probation departments. It...
Categories: Detention, Developmental disabilities, Disposition/placement
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PRA Request to California Department of Developmental Services
Public Records Act Request for information about children under the juvenile court jurisdiction with developmental...
Categories: Developmental disabilities, Specific services/programs
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Senator Debbie Stabenow’s Amendment re TFC
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
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Thank You Letter to Senator Debbie Stabenow Re Medicaid Coverage Amendment
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
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CHDP Letter re Realignment
The Health Care Program for Children in Foster Care will be removed from the list...
Categories: Foster care nurses
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YLC Letter to Secretary Dooley re Realignment of HCPCFC
The Youth Law Center opposed realignment of the program, which provides public health nurses to...
Categories: Foster care nurses
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CDSS Letter re Realignment of the Health Care Program for Children in Foster Care
This letter is in response to Youth Law Center letter opposing realignment of the program,...
Categories: Foster care nurses
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Marquez v. California Department of Health Petition
Marquez v California Department of Health, challenges California Medi-Cal policies that deny necessary medical care...
Categories: Access to care
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Rene M. v. Anderson Amended Petition
Rene M. v. Anderson was filed as a writ of mandate to require that the...
Categories: Foster care, Health care needs
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Rene M. v. Anderson Stipulated Settlement
Rene M. v. Anderson was filed as a writ of mandate to require that the...
Categories: Foster care, Health care needs
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SB 114 Fact Sheet
SB 114 will simplified the process for former foster youth to maintain their Medi-Cal eligibility.
Categories: Access to care
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Creating California’s “No Wrong Door” for Health Coverage: Recommendations from Consumer Advocates
In an effort to ensure that children receive the health care they need, the Youth...
Categories: Access to care
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Improving Access to Medi-Cal for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
This is the final report for a multi-year effort, funded by The California Endowment, to...
Categories: Access to care, Mental health needs
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January 12, 2010, Letter to Nancy Pelosi Re: Suspending Rather than Terminating Medicaid
YLC has signed on with other state and national organizations to urge House Speaker Nancy...
Categories: Access to care, Access to care/EPSDT, Inmate Exclusion, Mental health needs
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