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Advocacy Tool: Reproductive Health Care Access for Young People with Experience in Foster Care
This advocacy tool and worksheet was developed to help state advocates navigate the current state...
Categories: Access to care, Child Welfare, Foster care, Health, Medicaid/Medi-Cal
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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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Toolkit to Promote the Foster Youth to Independence (FYI) Program in California
This toolkit includes documents that we hope will aid advocates to help young people access...
Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Public Benefits/Funding
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Fact Sheet: Overview of SB 187: Updates to Foster Youth Rights Regarding Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
The Foster Care Social Security and Supplemental Security Income Assistance Program (created by AB 1633...
Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice, Public Benefits/Funding, SSI/Social Security
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Template Letters for SSI/OASDI Advocacy for California Foster Youth
This resource contains template letters to request information and actions related to foster youth clients,...
Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Juvenile Justice, Public Benefits/Funding, SSI/Social Security
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SUPPORT Act Implementation Resource
This resource alert provides an update related to older foster youth access to Medicaid. The...
Categories: Access to care, Child Welfare, Foster care, Health, Medicaid/Medi-Cal, Public Benefits/Funding
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Foster Care Benefits: AFDC-FC Program Change Alert
Foster Care Benefits: AFDC-FC Program Change Alert
Categories: Child Welfare, Foster care, Foster Care Benefits, Public Benefits/Funding
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Kinship Guardianship Assistance Program Fact Sheet
Kinship Guardianship Assistance Program Fact Sheet
Categories: Child Welfare, Foster care, Kinship/guardianship, Relatives/kinship care
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FYI/FUP Template Letters
Assisting young adults in securing affordable housing continues to be a challenging task. The tools...
Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Public Benefits/Funding
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Information gathering letter on existing FYI program
Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Legal Representation, Public Benefits/Funding
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Referral letter for FUP from Civil Legal Aid attorney
Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Legal Representation, Permanency planning, Public Benefits/Funding
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Referral letter for FYI from Civil Legal Aid attorney
Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Legal Representation, Public Benefits/Funding
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Building on the Momentum: How Appropriate Implementation of Community Based Supports Can Help Youth with Complex Care Ne...
Categories: Child Welfare, Child/Adolescent Development, Health, Juvenile Justice, Medicaid/Medi-Cal, Public Benefits/Funding
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FYI Referral Letter CA Attorneys
Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Public Benefits/Funding
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FYI and FUP for Youth Overview Factsheet
Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Independent Living/Transition, Public Benefits/Funding
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Six Ways to Ensure Transition Aged Youth Leverage Federal Support During and Post-Pandemic
A few things you can do to help transition aged youth with experience in the...
Categories: Aging Out/Transition, Child Welfare, Foster care, Public Benefits/Funding
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Title IV-E for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System Fact Sheet
Title IV-E for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
Categories: Disposition/placement, Title IV-E funding
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Resource, Foster and Kinship Families & the Child Tax Credit (CTC)
Many resource, foster and kinship families are either unaware of, or given incorrect information about,...
Categories: Public Benefits/Funding
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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...
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
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AB 1849: Fact Sheet
Fact sheet on AB 1849 (Gipson): Medi-Cal for Emancipating Foster Youth
Categories: Access to care/EPSDT, Transitional Medicaid
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AB 1849 – Request for Signature
Letter to Governor Brown requesting signature on AB 1849, a bill intended to reduce barriers...
Categories: Access to care, Access to care/EPSDT, Transitional Medicaid
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Good Health Starts with Smart Screening
Article published in Chronicle of Social Change on SB 1466.
Categories: Access to care/EPSDT
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SB 1466 Sponsor letter
YLC Letter to Senator Mitchell sponsoring SB 1466, a bill to ensure that trauma screening...
Categories: Access to care/EPSDT
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Article in Chronicle of Social Change about SB 1466, a bill to ensure that trauma...
Categories: Access to care/EPSDT
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Foster Care SSI Support Letter
Letter of support to SSA regarding extension of window for foster youth to apply for...
Categories: SSI/Social Security, Transitional Medicaid
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Bill to Extend Foster Care Benefits for Probation Youth Clears California Senate Committee
Article appearing in Chronicle of Social Change on SB 12, bill to grant extended foster...
Categories: AB 12, AB 12, Dual jurisdiction
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Legal Rights of Teens in Out of Home Care (2014)
This booklet, based on California law, covers some of the concerns of a youth in...
Categories: "Know your rights", AB 12, AB 12, Access to care/EPSDT, Alternatives to incarceration/JDAI, Congregate care, Foster care, Independent Living/Transition, Inmate Exclusion, Kinship/guardianship, Legal Rights/Placement, Mental Health Services Act, Permanency planning, Placement delay, Relatives/kinship care, Specific Services, SSI/Social Security, Title IV-E funding, Transitional Medicaid
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SSI Restoration Act (H.R. 1601) Summary
This is a summary of the SSI Restoration Act, H.R. 1601, introduced by Representative Raúl...
Categories: SSI/Social Security
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Letter to HHS re Proposed Regulations for Ensuring Medicaid to age 26
The Youth Law Center was one of 46 national organizations and 23 state and...
Categories: Access to care/EPSDT
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Letter to HHS re Extension of Medicaid to Former Foster Youth
YLC submitted comments on proposed rules to implement the extension of Medicaid to former foster...
Categories: Access to care/EPSDT
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Letter to CDMH and MHSOAC re MHSA
Letter requesting that the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission broaden the recommended language...
Categories: Mental Health Services Act
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Letter to CDMH re Comments on Proposed PEI Draft Guidelines
These comments are directed at one small, but important area - the language with respect...
Categories: Mental Health Services Act
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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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Children with Disabilities Aren’t Cheaters
Op ed piece about the Supplemental Security Income Legislation introduced by Republicans that would change...
Categories: SSI/Social Security
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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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Probation Provisions in California’s Fostering Connections to Success Act – Powerpoint Presentation
On August 30, 2011, Jennifer Rodriguez and Maria Ramiu presented a webinar on “Probation Provisions...
Categories: AB 12, Disposition/placement, Foster care
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Adoption Assistance: An Introduction – Clearinghouse Review Article
"Adoption Assistance: An Introduction" by Alice Bussiere has been published in the July-August, 2011 issue...
Categories: Adoption, Adoption assistance
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Mark A. v. Wilson Stipulated Judgment
Mark A. v. Wilson was filed in January 1998 alleging that the State's administration of...
Categories: Adoption, Adoption assistance
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Mark A. v. Wilson First Amended Complaint
Mark A. v. Wilson was filed in January 1998 alleging that the State's administration of...
Categories: Adoption, Adoption assistance
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A.S.W. v. Mink Ninth Circuit Opinion
A.S.W. v. Mink, a class action lawsuit, challenged the Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS)...
Categories: Adoption, Adoption assistance
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A.S.W. v. Mink Complaint
A.S.W. v. Mink, a class action lawsuit, challenged the Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS)...
Categories: Adoption, Adoption assistance
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Recommendations on Children in Foster Care – California Working Families Policy Summit
The Youth Law Center was co-sponsor of the 2009 California Working Families Policy Summit, held...
Categories: Access to care/EPSDT, Congregate care, Foster care
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SB 1147 – Suspension Rather than Termination of Medi-Cal
Youth Law Center sponsored this bill, which was enacted by the California Legislature in 2008....
Categories: Access to care/EPSDT, Inmate Exclusion
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The “Inmate Exception” and Its Impact on Health Care Services for Children in Out-of-Home Care in California
This paper was commissioned by The California Endowment. Youth Law Center was asked to...
Categories: Access to care/EPSDT, Inmate Exclusion
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Overpayments – YLC Fact Sheet
This fact sheet describes what overpayments are and what the rules are if the overpayments...
Categories: Adoption, Adoption assistance, Foster care, Kinship/guardianship, Title IV-E funding
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Transitional Medi-Cal & Transitional Housing Program Plus (THP+) – YLC Fact Sheet
A foster care youth who is in foster care on his/her 18th birthday is entitled...
Categories: Access to care/EPSDT, Independent Living/Transition
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AB 47 Fact Sheet
Assembly Bill 47 will adjust a tax credit that is currently available to offset the...
Categories: Adoption assistance
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AB 154 Fact Sheet
AB 154 would increase the incentives of to promote the adoption of children in foster...
Categories: Adoption, Adoption assistance
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Update: “Fostering Connections to Success: Extending a Social Safety Net for Youths Facing Homelessness and Poverty”
The Clearinghouse Review has published an update on The Fostering Connections Act written by YLC...
Categories: Adoption assistance, Foster care, Kinship/guardianship, Title IV-E funding
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Fostering Connections to Success: Extending a Social Safety Net for Youths Facing Homelessness and Poverty
YLC staff attorneys Jennifer Rodriguez and Alice Bussiere co-authored an article with Juvenile Law Center...
Categories: Adoption assistance, Foster care, Kinship/guardianship, Title IV-E funding
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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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