CLC’s Policy Team has been working tirelessly on Assembly Bill 670 in an effort to prevent children of parenting foster youth from entering the child welfare system.
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We fight for kids that come under the protection of the juvenile dependency court systems we serve.
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We fight to ensure the well being and future success of our clients through a multi-disciplinary, independent and informed approach to advocacy. A powerful voice for foster youth fighting for family reunification, permanence, educational opportunity, health and mental health services, self-sufficiency and overall well-being, we're working toward local, statewide and national policy change and child welfare system reform.
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We want all of California's children to have the support they need to succeed. Children's Law Center represents all of the 35,000 children under our jurisdiction. Our attorneys appear on behalf of children in day-to-day dependency proceedings, and we represent them in a host of related hearings that seek to ensure the well being and future success of each child.
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“I Will Never Forget That I Could Have Lived With People Who Loved Me”
Think of Us founder, Sixto Cancel, shares his story of growing up in foster care in The New York Times.
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Dependency Legal News Vol. 17, No. 6
Read our latest dependency legal newsletter. In this issue, we review new dependency case law including In re Charles W., In re B.D., In re L.O., In re I.S., In re N.B., and In re N.F.
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