Specific services/programs

CalAIM Behavioral Health Services for Systems-Involved Youth

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

Wraparound Services for Children and Families Receiving Adoption Assistance Program Benefits

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

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

Youth Prison System Sued Over Health Care

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

Categories: Division of Juvenile Facilities, Specific services/programs

Improvements Ordered in State Youth Prison Clinics

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

Categories: Division of Juvenile Facilities, Specific services/programs

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