Cash Benefits and Other Assistance: The Experiences of Expectant and Parenting Youth in California Foster Care
Expectant and parenting youth (EPY) with current or prior involvement in foster care experience multiple educational, health, and financial stressors. As EPY navigate the transition into adulthood and parenting, they often do so with reduced family support and greater systemic and financial challenges, making it harder for them to achieve what they want for themselves and their children. While support programs do exist, young parents have reported challenges accessing existing benefit programs.
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JusticeEd: Year One Progress Update
At the National Center for Youth Law (NCYL), we envision a future where each and every system-impacted young person is able to graduate from high school with the widest array of possibilities for their future.
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JusticeEd: Year Four Progress Update
At the National Center for Youth Law (NCYL), we envision a future where each and every system-impacted young person is able to graduate from high school with the widest array of possibilities for their future.
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Cash Benefits and Other Assistance: The Experiences of Expectant and Parenting Youth in California Foster Care
Expectant and parenting youth (EPY) with current or prior involvement in foster care experience multiple educational, health, and financial stressors.
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Resources regarding immigrant children in federal custody.
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Rights of Children Potentially Subject to the Laken Riley Act
The Laken Riley Act (LRA), signed into law on January 29, 2025, amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by expanding mandatory immigration detention to include individuals who are arrested for, charged with, convicted of, or admit to committing specified crimes. This guide addresses questions that are likely to arise if the LRA is enforced against children under the age of 18.
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From school to court: New report details extensive harms tickets inflict on students
A new report that examines the experiences of young people who become ensnared in Colorado's municipal court system due to being ticketed at school and in their communities highlights several disturbing trends and calls on community leaders to implement needed reforms.
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Providing Mental Health Education to Students is Critical — and Achievable
Since the 2021 enactment of California's Senate Bill 224, public middle and high schools that offer health courses are required to include mental health instruction within those courses. The law additionally called on the state to develop plans to expand this instruction to schools across the state.
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Los Angeles County Five-Year Strategic Plan to Prevent and Address Child Trafficking
The Los Angeles County Five-Year Strategic Plan to Prevent and Address Child Trafficking is a bold and ambitious proposal that is meant to serve as a guide-post for the county — the most populous in the U.S. — to confront the commercial sexual exploitation of children and youth (CSEC/Y).
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