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No more waiting - Sacramento News & Review

September 19, 2019

Michael Harris, senior director of legal advocacy and juvenile justice for National Center for Youth Law, said that his organization joined the lawsuit because Sacramento City Unified has become a glaring outlier within the most populous state in the union. “They have the highest suspension…

Government: Let’s end agreement for migrant kid detention - Associated Press

September 5, 2019

“The basic human rights of children should never be commodities in the battle for political capital,” said attorney Neha Desai, who works for the National Center for Youth Law, one of the groups involved in the litigation. “Over the past two years this administration has…

What’s in New Trump Immigration Rule Overriding Flores Agreement? 3 Key Changes - KQED

September 5, 2019

“This administration has dramatically and dangerously misrepresented what the Flores Settlement Agreement is and does,” said Neha Desai, immigration director for the National Center for Youth Law in Oakland. “It’s nothing more or less than a set of bedrock child welfare principles that protect vulnerable…

Panel rules soap, sleep essential to migrant kids’ safety - Associated Press

August 15, 2019

Leecia Welch, senior director of legal advocacy and child welfare at the National Center for Youth Law, said the panel’s ruling wasn’t surprising. “It should shock the conscience of all Americans to know that our government argued children do not need these bare essentials,” she…

N.C. shut down a group home last year. The US just gave it a contract to house migrant children - Los Angeles Daily News

August 9, 2019

State oversight ensures that children receive “a minimum threshold of protection,” such as schooling and being cared for by trained staff, said Neha Desai, director of immigration for the National Center for Youth Law. “While there is no way to ensure that a contractor will…

Here’s how a Valley Indian tribe and the city of San Fernando are partnering to keep at-risk teens out of jail - Los Angeles Daily News

August 9, 2019

According to the National Center for Youth Law policy associate Reymundo Armendariz, approximately 62,000 youth were arrested in 2016. He explains that “69% of those youth were arrested for misdemeanor and status offenses like petty theft, school fights, smoking marijuana, running away, violating curfew.” He…

Lawsuit claiming Missouri officials overused psychotropic drugs on foster children has been settled - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

August 9, 2019

“Children in foster care across the country are being administered dangerous dosages and combinations of psychotropic medications instead of receiving appropriate mental health services to address complex trauma,” said Leecia Welch, senior director of Child Welfare and Legal Advocacy at the National Center for Youth…

Shortened school day case faces motion to dismiss - East Oregonian

August 9, 2019

“We were really pleased that the court was taking seriously the plight of the kids of Oregon who aren’t getting full school days,” Galanter said. “We’re certainly very optimistic.”…

ODE Seeks Dismissal Of Lawsuit In Support Of Students With Disabilities - KLLC radio (Eugene, OR)

July 11, 2019

“The overall goal is for the state to support school districts in meeting the needs of these students. To make sure every student, as they’re entitled to, gets a chance to learn and isn’t excluded just because they have disabilities,” said National Center for Youth…

Progress report: Keeping tabs on meds for foster-care kids - Searchlight, New Mexico

July 11, 2019

“Every state needs this work done,” said Anna Johnson, senior policy associate for the National Center for Youth Law and a specialist in the issue of psychotropic prescribing to foster children. “No state has the answer. There’s no national model out there.”…