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Extreme Housing Instability and Lack of Mental Health Services Endanger Children in Kansas Foster Care, New Suit Charges - Kids Moved So Often They Are Effectively Homeless While Deprived of Necessary Mental Health Treatment, “As Kansans We Should Be Ashamed and Outraged”

November 16, 2018

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 16, 2018
Contact: Lewis Cohen, lcohen@youthlaw.org, (510)8996561 (KANSAS CITY, KANSAS) – Children in Kansas foster care face extreme housing instability—sometimes moved more than 50 or 100 times—and are deprived of critical mental health assessments and services according to a federal…

L.A. COUNTY MARKS PROGRESS IN COMBATTING COMMERCIAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - First Responder Protocol leads to recovery of 361 youth

November 13, 2018

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 13, 2018 Contact: Kate Walker Brown, kwalker@youthlaw.org Los Angeles County’s intensive effort to combat the commercial sexual exploitation of children and teens is having a meaningful impact, with 361 young people recovered since the launch of a new First Responder Protocol…

Trump Administration Using Fingerprint Checks to Delay Release of Immigrant Children

November 7, 2018

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 6, 2018 CONTACT:
Naomi Dann, New York Civil Liberties Union, ndann@nyclu.org, 212-607-3372
Inga Sarda-Sorensen, American Civil Liberties Union, isarda-sorensen@aclu.org, 212-284-7347
Lewis Cohen, National Center for Youth Law, lcohen@youthlaw.org, 510-899-6561
Daniel Vohden, Morrison & Foerster, DVohden@mofo.com, 212-336-4323 NEW…

New Evidence Reinforces Claim Trump’s Title IX Policy Was Based on Sexist Stereotypes, Rendering It Unconstitutional - New Documents Reveal Senior Education Department Official Candice Jackson Ordered Staff To Read Book Describing Title IX As Protecting Women From "Sexual Bogeymen"

November 1, 2018

Legal and Advocacy Groups Cite New Evidence In Amending Federal Lawsuit Against Trump Administration
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, November 1, 2018 Contact: Charisma Troiano, Democracy Forward, (202) 701-1781, ctroiano@democracyforward.org San Francisco, CA. — Yesterday, on behalf of plaintiffs SurvJustice, Equal Rights Advocates, and Victim…

District of Columbia Faces Lawsuit for Unnecessarily Institutionalizing Hundreds of Children with Mental Health Disabilities - Class Action Complaint, Filed by Disability Rights DC, the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, National Center for Youth Law, and Schulte Roth & Zabel, Sues District for Violating Americans with Disabilities Act

August 14, 2018

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FACES LAWSUIT FOR UNNECESSARILY INSTITUTIONALIZING HUNDREDS OF CHILDREN WITH MENTAL HEALTH DISABILITIES Class Action Complaint, Filed by Disability Rights DC, the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, National Center for Youth Law, and Schulte …

Lawsuit Settlement Significant for Education of Expelled Students

July 30, 2018

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July 30, 2018
Contact: Marisa Halm, Esq, Center for Children’s Advocacy mhalm@cca-ct.org; Lewis Cohen, National Center for Youth Law, lcohen@youthlaw.org CONNECTICUT – Alicia B. vs. Malloy, NCYL’s lawsuit challenging the inadequate education of expelled students in Connecticut, has settled. This…

Federal Court Hearing: Legal and Advocacy Groups Go Before Judge to Oppose Trump Administration’s Unconstitutional Title IX Policy - Betsy DeVos Rolled Back Protections for Student Survivors of Sexual Violence Coalition of Legal and Advocacy Organizations are Suing the Trump Administration For Implementing Policy Based on Sexist Stereotypes

July 19, 2018

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, July 19, 2018 Contact: Charisma Troiano, Democracy Forward, (202) 701-1781, ctroiano@democracyforward.org San Francisco, CA. — Today, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California heard oral arguments in a lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s discriminatory rollback of Title …

FosterEd Arizona Receives $500,000 From The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation to Increase Support for Arizona Students in Foster Care

July 12, 2018

For Immediate Release
Contact:
Molly Dunn
Director, FosterEd Arizona
mdunn@youthlaw.org
(602) 264-4681 PHOENIX (July 11, 2018) – FosterEd Arizona, an organization dedicated to improving graduation rates and life outcomes for children in foster care, has received a $500,000 grant from…

COPAA CHALLENGES SECRETARY DEVOS’S DECISION TO DELAY IMPLEMENTATION OF EQUITY IN IDEA REGULATIONS

July 12, 2018

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 12, 2018
Contact: Lewis Cohen, lcohen@youthlaw.org WASHINGTON, DC – The Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA) filed a lawsuit today against the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) for abdicating its responsibility to protect the civil rights of students.…

NCYL Files Lawsuit Against Oppressive ‘YAT’ Youth Program in Riverside

July 2, 2018

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Monday, July 2, 2018 Contact: ACLU SoCal Communications & Media Advocacy, communications@aclusocal.org, 213-977-5252 RIVERSIDE, CA — The Youth Accountability Team (YAT) program was created in 2001 in Riverside County to target at-risk youths for intervention. But YAT treats children who have not…