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 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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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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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