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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“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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Pandemic Relief Funds for California Foster Youth Slow to Reach Needy Young Adults
CLC’s Director of Policy & Training, Susan Abrams, spoke with The Imprint about the available pandemic relief for youth in foster care.
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Los Angeles County Moves To Get More Money Into The Hands Of Foster Youth
CLC’s Director of Policy and Training shares with NPR the financial challenges many youth face exiting foster care experience in Los Angeles County.
Read MoreL.A. County plans ‘blind removal’ pilot
Why are Black children removed from homes at high rate? America’s largest child welfare system will soon test whether race, ethnicity or neighborhood can influence social workers’ decisions to remove children from their homes.
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‘Raise the Age’ Reforms Lead to No More Youths in NY Adult Prisons
Bringing More Teens Home: Raising the Age Without Expanding Secure Confinement in the Youth Justice System.
Read MoreHow Do You Teach 6-Year-Olds Their Legal Rights?
Immigration lawyers and groups have been visiting emergency shelters to help educate children who crossed the border without a parent.
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