We implement policy advocacy at the federal, state, and local levels. Our work includes policy development, lobbying, coalition building, and community organizing.
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Oversight and Monitoring for Foster Children Prescribed Psychotropic Medications (2015)
SB 319 (Beall)
The legislation strengthens the role of public health nurses giving explicit responsibility for the oversight and monitoring of the administration of psychotropic drugs to foster children.
Implementation of the Federal Preventing Child Sex Trafficking Act (2015)
HR 4980/SB 794
In 2015, California passed Senate Bill (SB) 794 which enacted key provisions of the federal Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act of 2014 (HR 4980).
Implementation of California’s CSEC Program (2014)
SB 855
The California Child Welfare Council's CSEC Action Team, with the support and leadership of NCYL, has produced a number of resources to help counties implement the program and meet other related requirements including SB 794.
NCYL is working nationally and in California to ban juvenile life without parole. Until 2012, the United States and Somalia were the only countries to sentence children to life in prison without parole.
California's Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) is a groundbreaking law passed in 2013, that changed the way education is funded in the state. LCFF increases local flexibility in spending education dollars while increasing accountability, particularly for improving the educational outcomes of designated student sub-groups.
The new law gives juvenile offenders sentenced to life without the possibility of parole the opportunity to seek a hearing to reduce their sentences to 25 years to life.
