- CARE Program: Intensive case-management for highly vulnerable youth – including those with mental-health needs, juvenile-justice involvement, or trafficking history.
- CSEC Team: Legal representation and support for children who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation or trafficking.
- Educational Advocacy: Protects clients’ educational rights and ensures they get necessary resources and support in school.
- Expectant & Parenting Youth (EPY): Advocacy and support for clients who are expectant or parenting babies – before and after birth – to help them build safe, stable homes.
- Immigration Team: Screens for immigration-related needs and works to secure appropriate legal status or court orders when needed.
- Mental Health Advocacy Team (MHAT): Works with attorneys to identify needed mental-health services, develop treatment plans, and recommend placements or support.
- Peer Advocate Program: Provides case management and guidance to transition-age youth (clients transitioning out of foster care).
- Young Parent Support & Advocacy Center (YPSAC): Specialized support for parenting or expectant clients at risk of losing custody – combining legal and non-legal interventions to break cycles of foster care.
- Client Needs Fund – A safety net that ensures children in foster care have access to the essential items and supports their peers take for granted – from housing assistance to school supplies, uniforms, job support, and more.
Children’s Law Center is a registered 501(c) (3) non-profit organization (Federal ID 95-4252143), and your donation is, therefore, tax deductible. All money and other items donated to the Children’s Law Center goes directly to aid foster youth, without any administrative costs.
Have a vehicle you would like to donate?
Visit Donate for Charity, Inc. to learn how you can donate.
Make A Donation from Your Donor-Advised Fund Today!
Making a gift from your donor-advised fund (DAF) to Children’s Law Center of California is easy and impactful. Simply recommend a grant to Children’s Law Center of California, Tax ID #95-4252143, through your fund administrator. Be sure to include your name and contact information so we can thank you for your generous support. Your gift will help us continue to protect and empower children and youth in the foster care system.
Cy Pres Awards
We hope you will join the many lawyers and firms across California that help support CLC by including us as a recipient of cy pres funds. These monies are essential in sustaining programs like ours that serve children and youth in foster care.