Promoting Healing in Child Welfare Advocacy: A Conceptual and Practice Framework
This framework is a call to action for legal advocates who represent children, youth and parents in family and juvenile court. It draws on interviews with practitioners, organizers, legal advocates and people directly affected by the child welfare system, and on a long tradition of healing work led largely by women of color. It looks at how the child welfare system causes harm through surveillance, investigation, family separation and shame. It then offers practical ways to put healing at the center of legal work.
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Local Educational Agency Leadership Guide
This Local Educational Agency Leadership Guide, developed by the National Center for Youth Law and the Los Angeles County Office of Education, is a practical tool to help California school and district leaders strengthen policies, practices, and planning for students experiencing homelessness, in the foster system, or involved in the juvenile justice system.
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Impact Report: Antelope Valley Compassionate Education Systems (2018-2025)
Compassionate Education Systems (Formerly known as FosterEd) launched a demonstration site in the Antelope Valley in 2018 to begin supporting students in the 2018-2019 school year. The program concluded in 2025.
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Webinar: Confronting Harmful District-Level Discipline — Updated Webtool for Educators & Advocates
This webinar, hosted by the National Center for Youth Law on April 9, 2026, provides an overview and guidance on using NCYL's updated California School Discipline Data Webtool. The webinar is led by NCYL Senior Director of Education Dan Losen and Ramon Flores of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA.
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Federal Advocacy Toolkit for Youth
This non-partisan toolkit is intended to help youth take their first steps to engage in federal advocacy in the United States, on issues that matter to them, their peers, and their families.
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