Youth Law Center News

By Cara Buckley and Mosi Secret  |  The New York Times  — The faces looked commanding, soulful and, above all, streetwise, as they […]

Staff Attorney Corene Kendrick will visit Harvard Law School March 30-31, 2011, as a Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow. This program […]

Unclear Oversight Yields Repeated Violations at Home for Troubled Youth By Trey Bundy  |  The New York Times  — In Alameda County, there […]

YLC has launched a foster care benefits listserv in collaboration with the Alliance for Children’s Rights, Bay Area Legal Aid, […]

By Isaac Gonzalez  |  The Sacramento Press  — The Sacramento County Probation Department recently passed the one-year anniversary of its participation in “Baby […]

YLC provided training on benefits for children in foster care to foster and adoptive parents and attorneys who represent children […]

Nebraska Sen. Mark Christensen introduced a bill in the state legislature on January 19, 2011, that would require its Judiciary […]

Carole Shauffer is quoted in an article about Rhode Island’s children shelters. Here is the quote: “The length of the […]

Staff Attorney Corene Kendrick and Roger Chan, Executive Director of the East Bay Children’s Law Office, spoke in a panel […]

By Lynn Arditi, Journal Staff Writer  |  The Providence Journal  — He arrived at the Washington Park Children’s Shelter shortly before midnight, coughing […]

Sue Burrell was invited by the Daily Journal to write an end of the year piece on juvenile justice and […]

By Sue Burrell, YLC Staff Attorney  |  Los Angeles Daily Journal  — It wasn’t a bad year for juvenile justice in California. In […]