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Consent – California Tools and Resources #TeenHealthLaw

In most cases, parents must consent to health care on behalf of their minor children. However, there are situations in which minors must or may consent for their own care and opportunities in which other adults may consent to care on the minors’ behalf.
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Curbing the High Rates of Psychotropic Medication Prescriptions Among Children and Youth in Foster Care

Curbing the High Rates of Psychotropic Medication Prescriptions Among Children and Youth in Foster Care

This brief analyzes conditions contributing to the over-prescription of psych meds in foster care systems, identify promising interventions, present case studies of state interventions, and offer policy strategies ranked by potential impact and ease of implementation. 
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Improving California’s Multi-System Response to Commercially Sexually Exploited Children: Resources for Counties

Improving California’s Multi-System Response to Commercially Sexually Exploited Children: Resources for Counties

Toolkit contains the Executive Summary, Memorandum Summarizing the Available Screening Tools to Identify CSEC, and more.
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Implicit Bias in the Child Welfare, Education and Mental Health Systems

Implicit Bias in the Child Welfare, Education and Mental Health Systems

Youth of color are overrepresented at every stage of the juvenile justice process. Much of the literature that discusses this overrepresentation focuses on racial disparities in the juvenile justice process itself.
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Ending Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children: A Call for Multi-System Collaboration in California

Ending Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children: A Call for Multi-System Collaboration in California

The National Center for Youth Law released a new report, "Ending Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children: A Call for Multi-System Collaboration in California."
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