Mental health needs

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...

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

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

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

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

Trauma and the Environment of Care in Juvenile Institutions

This article is about trauma and the environment of care – the way detention itself...

Categories: Legal/policy issues, Mental health needs

Youth of Color and MHSA Prevention and Early Intervention

Article about why it is critical that the Prevention and Early Intervention (PEI) Guidelines be...

Categories: Mental health needs, Mental Health Services Act, Racial Justice/DMC

What Defenders Can Do to Reduce Placement Delay/Placement Failure

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

Categories: Mental health needs, Practice standards/guides

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

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

Mental Health Issues in California’s Juvenile Justice System

Youth Law Center's work on placement delay was cited in this Berkeley Center on Criminal...

Categories: Mental health needs, Placement delay

Willie M. v. Hunt Judgment and Order

Willie M. v. Hunt was a federal civil rights lawsuit that challenged the state's failure...

Categories: Legal/policy issues, Mental health needs, Specific services/programs, Training school

Willie M. v. Hunt Complaint

Willie M. v. Hunt was a federal civil rights lawsuit that challenged the state's failure...

Categories: Legal/policy issues, Mental health needs, Specific services/programs, Training school

Morris v. Harper (Wilber v. Cate) Peremptory Writ of Mandamus

This lawsuit was filed in May 2000, challenging the failure of the California Youth Authority...

Categories: Division of Juvenile Facilities, Legal/policy issues, Mental health needs, Specific services/programs, Training school

Morris v. Harper (Wilber v. Cate) Statement of Decision

This lawsuit was filed in May 2000, challenging the failure of the California Youth Authority...

Categories: Division of Juvenile Facilities, Legal/policy issues, Mental health needs, Specific services/programs, Training school

Morris v. Harper (Wilber v. Cate) Petition for Writ

This lawsuit was filed in May 2000, challenging the failure of the California Youth Authority...

Categories: Division of Juvenile Facilities, Legal/policy issues, Mental health needs, Specific services/programs, Training school

Incompetent Youth in California Juvenile Justice

This article offers a vehicle for discussion of California juvenile incompetence to stand trial.  It...

Categories: Competence to stand trial, Mental health needs

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

Difficult to Place: Youth with Mental Health Needs in California Juvenile Justice

This report presents the findings of Youth Law Center's research into placement issues for juvenile...

Categories: Disposition/placement, Mental health needs, Placement delay

Mental Health Issues Facing Adolescents in the Juvenile Justice System: Part I – The Lack of Mental Health Resourc...

Part I explores the lack of mental health resources and services for youth in the...

Categories: Mental health needs, Trying juveniles as adults

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