Mark your calendars! Join CLC in exactly 3 months for our annual Art of Advocacy Gala on October 24. Celebrate with us under the stars as we drink, dine, and gather as a community to support our clients. Interested in sponsoring the event? Please contact CLC Development Manager Stephanie Talavera at Talaveras@clccal.org. More details including…
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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 25,000 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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Former CLC Client Story Featured In ABC7 Report
Former CLC client Esmeralda Barajas was featured this week in an ABC 7 LA story about the need to help youth find housing as they age out of foster care. The CLC housing team worked hard to help her and her young family with a rental payment and find stable housing. Thanks to CLC’s newly-announced…
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Expanding on efforts that have helped stabilized housing for more than 23,000 Angelenos at risk of eviction and homelessness, the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles announced July 8 that it will provide benefit, employment and housing navigation to the roughly 100 young adults leaving foster care in LA County each month because they are turning…
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