Mental Health

Through California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM), the Department of Health Care Services is reforming...

Categories: Access to care, Access to care/EPSDT, Child Welfare, Health, Inmate Exclusion, Juvenile Justice, Medicaid/Medi-Cal, Mental Health, Public Benefits/Funding, Specific Services, Specific services/programs, Specific services/programs

This set of resources provides an overview of Medi-Cal beneficiaries' due process rights for accessing...

Categories: Access to care, Access to care/EPSDT, Grievances/appeals, Health, Legal Representation, Medicaid/Medi-Cal, Mental Health, Public Benefits/Funding

This resource walks through several frequently asked questions common among families who have adopted children out of...

Categories: Adoption, Adoption assistance, Child Welfare, Mental Health, Public Benefits/Funding, Specific services/programs

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

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

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

This Youth Law Center report describes the benefits of extracurricular participation for youth, families, and...

Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child/Adolescent Development, Education Access, Mental Health

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

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

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

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

Categories: Legal/policy issues, Mental health needs

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

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

Categories: Mental health needs, Practice standards/guides

LA Times article about the filing of Morris v. Harper, a lawsuit against the California...

Categories: Division of Juvenile Facilities, Specific services/programs

LA Times article about the Youth Law Center case, Wilber v. Warner (previously Morris v....

Categories: Division of Juvenile Facilities, Specific services/programs

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

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

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 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 was a federal civil rights lawsuit that challenged the state's failure...

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

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

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

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

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

Categories: Competence to stand trial, Mental health needs

This is the final report for a multi-year effort, funded by The California Endowment, to...

Categories: Access to care, Mental health needs

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

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

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

Categories: Mental health needs, Trying juveniles as adults

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