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NCYL improves access to appropriate health and mental health services for low-income children, with a focus on the special problems faced by adolescents and at-risk youth.

Campaigns

Los Angeles Reproductive Health Equity Project for Foster Youth - California

August 31, 2017

LA RHEP for Foster Youth is a partnership of adult advocates and foster youth working to dismantle systemic barriers in an effort to improve access to sexual and reproductive health care services for youth in care.…

Ensuring Adequate Oversight for the Safe Administration of Psychotropic Medications to Youth in Foster Care - Missouri

June 15, 2017

NCYL is partnering with Children’s Rights, and Saint Louis University School of Law Legal Clinics to ensure Missouri enacts policies and practices that reduce the risk of harm to the children in its custody.

Ending Child Trafficking - California

December 21, 2016

NCYL raises public awareness about the plight of sex trafficked children and young adults and helps formulate and implement public policies that address their needs as victims, not criminals.

Defending Reproductive and Sexual Health Access for Youth in Foster Care - California

November 13, 2015

Through this campaign NCYL is working to establish and defend the rights to privacy and reproductive health access for all youth, including foster youth, in California and nationally.

Latest News

Teen pregnancy rates in LA County’s foster care system are shockingly high. Here’s what’s being done - KPCC - FM

May 1, 2018

Teen pregnancies have been declining in recent decades, but that’s not the case for all young women; 58 percent of L.A.’s female foster youths have experienced at least one pregnancy by the age of 19.…

Unplanned Pregnancies More Likely With Foster Kids, Study Shows - KFI - AM

May 1, 2018

LOS ANGELES (CNS) – Teens in foster care are 2 1/2 times more likely to become pregnant than their non-foster care peers, Los Angeles County officials said today, highlighting the efforts of a private-public partnership to change those statistics.…

Most Sex Trafficking Victims See A Doctor At Some Point. Experts Say Clinics, Hospitals Can Help End The Abuse - Capital Public Radio

February 13, 2018

When Marie was being sold for sex throughout California, she was rarely away from her pimp. Even when he wasn’t physically confining her, she was frightened he was watching or listening.…

A $200 Incentive to Get Current, Former Foster Youth Engaged on Sexual Health - The Chronicle of Social Change

January 16, 2018

A California advocacy group hopes to draw current and former foster youth to sexual health education with the most time-tested incentive there is: cash money.…

Missouri Can’t Dodge Claims of Overmedicating Foster Kids - Courthouse News Service

January 10, 2018

A federal judge refused to dismiss a landmark child advocacy case accusing Missouri of overprescribing psychotropic drugs to children in foster care and failing to maintain adequate medical records to monitor the potential abuse of such drugs.…