• Safety, Stability, and Well-Being of Abused and Neglected Children
  NCYL works to reform state foster care systems, promote policies and laws that protect children in foster care, and improve the effectiveness of child advocacy efforts nationwide.
• Financial Stability for Low-Income Families and Children
  NCYL works to increase public and private resources intended to help low-income families and children meet their basic needs.
• Quality Health and Mental Health Care
  NCYL strives to eliminate barriers to appropriate health and mental health care for low-income children, with a focus on adolescents and at-risk youth.
• Juvenile Justice
  NCYL works to ensure that youth in trouble with the law are treated appropriately for their age and capacity to change. NCYL promotes reforms that both keep youth from entering the juvenile justice system and protect the safety and welfare of youth in custody.

NCYL fights in court on behalf of low-income children, and promotes programs, laws, and public policies that serve their best interests.

NCYL has played a critical role in expanding children's access to health and mental health care, improving the quality of foster care in states across the country, and keeping at-risk youth out of juvenile prisons by helping them get the support and training they need to become self-sufficient adults.

The law can offer hope and help for vulnerable children and youth, but children need advocates to make these laws work for them. NCYL speaks for those children and their families, insisting that they receive the benefit of laws that offer them access to safety, shelter, health care, and hope for a better future.

Our advocacy takes a variety of forms, including:

• Publishing articles, manuals, books, and our quarterly journal, Youth Law News
• Providing technical assistance and training
• Assisting legal advocates who represent poor children
• Conducting administrative and legislative advocacy

NCYL is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, founded in 1970. NCYL's work on behalf of poor children is made possible by the generous support of our donors.

Individuals or organizations interested in making a charitable contribution can do so online, by mail, or by contacting Duff Axsom at (510) 835-8098, x3008, daxsom(at)youthlaw.org.

Additional information about donations can be found under Support NCYL.

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