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Statement on the Administration’s Plan to End the Flores Agreement from the National Center for Youth Law August 21, 2019

August 21, 2019

The Administration’s announcement today of its plans to end the Flores agreement through new regulations is a call for the mass internment of children. While official regulations will not be published until Friday, all communications from the Administration indicate that the new rules will be

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Court Allows Lawsuit Against District of Columbia for Unnecessarily Institutionalizing Children with Mental Health Disabilities to Proceed - Class Action, Filed by Disability Rights DC, the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, the National Center for Youth Law, and Schulte Roth & Zabel, Claims Violations of Americans with Disabilities Act and Medicaid Act

July 26, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 25, 2019 MEDIA CONTACT: Patty Guinto, National Center for Youth Law, pguinto@youthlaw.org Today, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia denied the District of Columbia’s motion to dismiss a class action filed by lawyers for children with mental…

Groups Detail “Chilling Effects” of Secretary DeVos’s Unlawful Rollback of Title IX Survivor Protections - In New Legal Filing, Plaintiffs Say Abandoned Guidance Deters Victims From Coming Forward, Delays Investigations of Sexual Violence Claims

July 26, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 25, 2019 MEDIA CONTACT: Patty Guinto, National Center for Youth Law, pguinto@youthlaw.org Washington, D.C. — Advocates for campus survivors of sexual violence submitted new court filings that detail the barriers to justice erected by Secretary Betsy DeVos’s unlawful rollback of Title…

Historic Settlement Over Abuses of Youth Probation Program - Riverside County Will Stop Referring Youths to Program that Criminalized Adolescent Behavior

July 25, 2019

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July 25, 2019 MEDIA CONTACT: Patty Guinto, National Center for Youth Law, pguinto@youthlaw.org RIVERSIDE, CA — In the settlement of a lawsuit against the unconstitutional Youth Accountability Team (YAT) program in Riverside County that treated thousands of youths — especially those of…

Activists Flood the Halls of the State Capitol Calling for Investments to Transform Youth Justice

May 6, 2019

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May 6^th, 2019 Contact: Miranda Perry, 510-835-8098 ext. 3046, mperry@youthlaw.org Sacramento – Youth activists and advocates descended on the State Capitol on Monday in support of legislative efforts to transform the youth justice system in California. The mass mobilization was…

L.A. County Launches Innovative Model for Serving Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth

March 14, 2019

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March 14, 2019 Contact: Kate Walker Brown, kwalker@youthlaw.org LOS ANGELES, CA – Los Angeles County is launching a new, interagency protocol to improve efforts to proactively identify and serve exploited youth who come into contact with the juvenile justice system. The Detention…

Court Reinstates Protections Against Racial Discrimination in Special Education – U.S. Department of Education Ordered to Implement 2016 Regulations

March 7, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 7, 2019 Contact: Denise Marshall, COPAA Executive Director, denise@copaa.org, (443)-310-8638|
Seth Galanter, National Center for Youth Law Senior Director, sgalanter@youthlaw.org, (202) 288-8188 WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia…

Pioneering Child Advocate Bill Grimm Receives Prestigious Mark Hardin Award for Child Welfare Legal Scholarship and Systems Change from the American Bar Association

March 7, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 7, 2019 Contact: Miranda Perry, National Center for Youth Law, mperry@youthlaw.org, 510-835-8098 ext. 3046 OAKLAND, CA – Bill Grimm, Senior Directing Attorney at the National Center for Youth Law, has been awarded the esteemed Mark Hardin Award by the American…

Federal Lawsuit: Oregon Failing to Ensure That All Children Can Attend a Full day of School - Parents & Advocates Call for Equal Access to Classrooms for Students with Disabilities

January 22, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 22, 2019 Contact: Lewis Cohen, National Center for Youth Law, lcohen@youthlaw.org, 510-899-6561
Norma Kelly, Bazelon Center, norma@jrcommunications.com, 818-395-1342
Julie Rosenthal, Bazelon Center, julie@jrcommunications.com, 202-486-3059
Selene Almazan, COPAA, selene@copaa.org, 844-426-7224…

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…