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We work to ensure that all children have equitable access to whole-health care and support that meets their physical, emotional and psycho-social needs. We aim to dismantle the barriers to care that children and youth experience, including involvement in foster care or juvenile justice systems, implicit bias in the health system, and housing or economic instability.
Center Youth
NCYL convenes a Youth Advisory Board made up of current and former foster youth who lead strategies to ensure all young people in foster care receive appropriate sexual and reproductive health information and support. Additionally, our policy work engages youth through community-based partners, and we work directly with youth to file litigation.
Legal Advocacy & Impact Litigation
Laws & Policy
Press Coverage
In COVID’s wake, we need a mandatory mental health curriculum in schools
USA Today
Partly hidden by isolation, many of the nation’s schoolchildren struggle with mental health
COVID 19 exacerbates children's mental health crisis
KCSB News
A Pharma-Backed Effort to Curb Oversight on Psych Meds Fails in California Legislature
The Imprint
Amid Pandemic, A Pharma-Backed Effort to Ease Oversight on Psych Meds
The Imprint
Lawsuit claiming Missouri officials overused psychotropic drugs on foster children has been settled
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Related Resources
Ensuring California Youth in Foster Care Receive Gender Affirming and Reproductive Health Care
A Young Person's Guide to Accessing Affordable Mental Health Services Under Medi-Cal
Judicial Bench Guide: Supporting the Mental Health of Children & Youth in Family Court
Fostering Parenthood the Podcast
Judicial Bench Guide: Supporting the Mental Health of Children & Youth in Probate Guardianship Proceedings
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