Legal Representation

This resource provides suggested language for questions and phrases that can help attorneys build rapport...

Categories: Confidentiality, Information Sharing, Legal Representation, Practice standards/guides

The OYCR Ombudsperson is a new resource for youth in the juvenile justice system. The...

Categories: Juvenile Justice, Juvenile justice legal issues, Legal Representation

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

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

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

Categories: Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice, Legal Representation

Tips for Preparing Youth for Virtual Hearings in Child Welfare Matters

Categories: Legal Representation

Youth Law Considerations for Civil Legal Services

Categories: Legal Representation

Amicus brief filed with US Supreme Court in A.M. v. Holmes, challenging the arrest of...

Categories: Juvenile justice legal issues, Legal/policy analyses

Letter by Coalition of 177 children's rights, civil rights, faith based and immigrant rights' groups...

Categories: Legal Rights/Placement, Right to Counsel

Report by the Justice Policy Institute outlining the costs of juvenile incarceration.

Categories: Alternatives to incarceration/JDAI, Collateral consequences, Detention, Disposition/placement, Juvenile justice legal issues, Legal/policy analyses, Realignment of resources

Op-ed by YLC Staff Attorney Sue Burrell on the cost of juvenile detention published by...

Categories: Alternatives to incarceration/JDAI, Collateral consequences, Detention, Disposition/placement, Juvenile justice legal issues, Legal/policy analyses, Realignment of resources

Letter to Senate Appropriations Committee re: costs of SB 838

Categories: Legal/policy analyses, Trying juveniles as adults

Letter to Senate Public Safety Committee opposing SB 828, a bill that would create a...

Categories: Legal/policy analyses, Trying juveniles as adults

Letter to Assembly Public Safety Committee Opposing SB 838 - a bill that would create...

Categories: Legal/policy analyses, Trying juveniles as adults

Article discusses controversial bill SB 838 "Audrie's Law" which would create a new crime for...

Categories: Legal/policy analyses, Trying juveniles as adults

News article on the appointed counsel system for delinquency cases in Los Angeles County.

Categories: Legal/policy analyses

This article profiles YLC Board Member Honorable Tomar Mason.

Categories: Legal/policy analyses

This is a fact sheet describing the right to an attorney in California juvenile delinquency...

Categories: Right to Counsel

SB 166 requires Judicial Council to establish minimum hours of training and education necessary in...

Categories: Practice standards/guides

Factsheet for SB 166 that would require Judicial Council to establish minimum hours of training...

Categories: Practice standards/guides

Power point presentation on how public records and Freedom of Information Act requests can be...

Categories: Practice standards/guides

National Juvenile Defender Summit handout focusing on youth with serious mental health needs.

Categories: Mental health needs, Practice standards/guides

This Daily Journal article explores the special skills and training needed to represent young people...

Categories: Legal/policy analyses

Daily Journal article that explores the special skills and training needed to represent young people...

Categories: Legal/policy analyses

Power point presentation on JIDAN and what it has done in California so far.

Categories: Practice standards/guides

Two page list of what public defenders can do to reduce placement delay and placement...

Categories: Placement delay, Practice standards/guides

This power point presentation looks at the characteristics of delinquency system and delinquency attorneys in...

Categories: Legal/policy analyses

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

This is an op ed piece summing up juvenile justice reform in the first part...

Categories: Division of Juvenile Facilities, Legal/policy analyses, Realignment of resources

This is the second part of a two part piece on training and resource needs...

Categories: Legal/policy analyses, Right to Counsel

This is part one of a two part piece published in the Daily Journal. ...

Categories: Legal/policy analyses, Right to Counsel

This report assessing Nebraska’s system of child representation was released on January 9, 2010. The...

Categories: Practice standards/guides

The Youth Law Center filed Kleppe v. Superior Court of Marin County and Marin County...

Categories: Practice standards/guides

Hollingsworth v. Orange County was a conditions of confinement case filed in state court. The...

Categories: Detention, Legal/policy issues, Right to Counsel

Hollingsworth v. Orange County was a conditions of confinement case filed in state court. The...

Categories: Detention, Legal/policy issues, Right to Counsel

In May 2012, the UC Davis Journal of Juvenile Law and Policy published Staff Attorney...

Categories: Right to Counsel