This fact sheet provides resources to help advocates support young people in foster care navigate reproductive health care and abortion access in their state and includes information for individual and systemic advocacy.
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 child welfare agencies and probation departments to support family based care for young people with complex needs. This Alert summarizes additional guidance provided by CDSS on how funds for Child-Specific Requests for Exceptional Needs and Capacity Building Requests can be […]
SUPPORT Act Implementation Resource
This resource alert provides an update related to older foster youth access to Medicaid. The Affordable Care Act provided Medicaid eligibility for former foster youth until age 26 if they were in foster care at age 18 or older and were enrolled in Medicaid at that time. When it was enacted, the law did not […]
What is CalAim? A YLC Fact Sheet
Building on the Momentum: How Appropriate Implementation of Community Based Supports Can Help Youth with Complex Care Needs
S 2689 FAQ
S. 2689 Two Pager
Senate Sub Committee 3 – YLC Testimony
Medicaid/Medi-Cal for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System Fact Sheet
Medicaid/Medi-Cal for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
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 more than ever, the juvenile justice system must make every possible effort to return detained youth to their families and/or home communities. This guide is for advocates working to release detained youth and support them in the community during the […]
Job Announcement – Director of Finance and Administration
Job Announcement – Director of Finance and Administration
Job Announcement – Development and Communications Coordinator
Job Description for Development and Communications Coordinator
AB 1849 – Request for Signature
Letter to Governor Brown requesting signature on AB 1849, a bill intended to reduce barriers to foster youth receiving uninterrupted Medi-Cal services as they exit care. YLC co-sponsored this bill.
Job Annoucement – Policy Advocate
Job Announcement for Policy Advocate
Job Annoucement – Staff Attorney Position
Job Announcement for experience staff attorney
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.
Psychotropic sign -on letter
Letter to Senators Reid and McConnell, signed by 100 advocacy organizations, urging support of new initiative designed to encourage states and tribes to reduce the inappropriate use and over-prescription of psychotropic medications to children and youth in foster care and instead provide evidence-based psychosocial interventions.
Letter Supporting Bicameral Therapeutic Foster Care Bills
This letter supports passage of S. 1992 and H.R. 4016, bipartisan, bicameral bills, also known as the Quality Foster Care Services Act of 2014.
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 would implement eligibility requirements for the fleeing felon provisions of the 2008 Farm Bill.
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 Poverty on proposed United States Department of Agriculture rules that deny Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly Food Stamps) to individuals categorized as “fleeing felons.” Final rules have not yet been issued.
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 Felons.
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 eligibility determinations more uniform but strongly recommend that FNS adopt the criteria established in Martinez v. Astrue and Clark v. Astrue.
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 juvenile justice system.
Developmental Disabilities in California Juvenile Justice Proceedings
This is a short primer on legal issues that may come up in California juvenile delinquency cases1 involving a young person with developmental disabilities. Some are so fundamental that the case may not go forward unless threshold findings are made. Others affect the evidence that may come in during the proceedings; the path the case […]
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 memoranda, correspondence, reports, electronic transmissions, or other writings as defined in California Government Code § 6252, subdivision (c), regarding California Regional Center’s juvenile clients.
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 lists common problems as well as promising practices.
PRA Request to California Department of Developmental Services
Public Records Act Request for information about children under the juvenile court jurisdiction with developmental disabilities and receiving services form the state or Regional Center.
Senator Debbie Stabenow’s Amendment re TFC
The Youth Law Center joined with over 35 national child welfare and mental organizations to thank Senator Debbie Stabenow for introducing an amendment to ensure that Medicaid coverage includes Therapeutic Foster Care (TFC.) TFC provides medically necessary, cost effective services to at least 50,000 children with severe mental and behavioral health needs in a community-based […]
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 thank Senator Debbie Stabenow for introducing an amendment to ensure that Medicaid coverage includes Therapeutic Foster Care (TFC.) TFC provides medically necessary, cost effective services to at least 50,000 children with severe mental and behavioral health needs in a community-based […]
CHDP Letter re Realignment
The Health Care Program for Children in Foster Care will be removed from the list of California programs to be realigned to the counties under an agreement between the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) and the County Welfare Directors Association. The Youth Law Center opposed realignment of the program, which provides public health nurses […]
YLC Letter to Secretary Dooley re Realignment of HCPCFC
The Youth Law Center opposed realignment of the program, which provides public health nurses to coordinate health, mental health, and dental care for children in foster care. Foster care nurses play an important role in protecting the health and safety of children who have been removed from their homes because of abuse or neglect, and […]
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, which provides public health nurses to coordinate health, mental health, and dental care for children in foster care. Foster care nurses play an important role in protecting the health and safety of children who have been removed from their homes […]
Marquez v. California Department of Health Petition
Marquez v California Department of Health, challenges California Medi-Cal policies that deny necessary medical care to children who have other health care coverage (OHC) when the other coverage does not provide the health care services the child needs. Medi-Cal policy requires individuals to use other available health care coverage before relying on Medi-Cal, but the […]
Rene M. v. Anderson Amended Petition
Rene M. v. Anderson was filed as a writ of mandate to require that the State monitor all California counties to ensure that children in foster care are visited regularly by caseworkers and that they receive necessary medical care. Although the state has known for more than ten years that counties are failing to protect […]
Rene M. v. Anderson Stipulated Settlement
Rene M. v. Anderson was filed as a writ of mandate to require that the State monitor all California counties to ensure that children in foster care are visited regularly by caseworkers and that they receive necessary medical care. Although the state has known for more than ten years that counties are failing to protect […]
SB 114 Fact Sheet
SB 114 will simplified the process for former foster youth to maintain their Medi-Cal eligibility.
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 Law Center joined the Western Center on Law and Poverty and other advocates to develop Creating California’s “No Wrong Door” for Health Coverage: Recommendations from Consumer Advocates, a paper that offers recommendations for fulfilling the promise of health care reform […]
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 improve Medi-Cal coverage for youth in the California juvenile justice system. The report covers the activities of the project and presents key project findings, recommendations and immediate next steps. The recommendations and immediate next steps, which address both policy and […]
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 Pelosi to include in final health care legislation a provision in the House-passed bill (H.R. 3962, §1729) requiring states to suspend—rather than terminate—Medicaid benefits for youth in juvenile facilities. This issue arises out of YLC work on Improving Access to […]