NCYL bids a sad farewell to our nine summer law clerks and interns!
 - Walter P. "Pat" Loughlin
 - Victoria L. Boesch
 - Kathy Sher
NCYL is pleased to announce that Walter P. "Pat" Loughlin and Victoria L. Boesch have joined its Board of Directors. Pat is a litigation partner in the New York office of K&L Gates LLP, and a member of the firm's Pro Bono Committee. Vicky is a litigator in the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson in San Francisco, serving on the Leadership Council for the Volunteer Legal Services Program of the SF Bar Association. Read more.
Kathy Sher has joined NCYL as a volunteer attorney, coordinating our legislative work in California. Kathy has worked in Sacramento as a legislative advocate for California Attorneys for Criminal Justice and as Staff Counsel to the California Assembly Judiciary Committee. Read more.
March 9, 2011 — The Council for Court Excellence has awarded its annual Justice Potter Stewart Award to Professor Peter Edelman, president of NCYL's Board of Directors.
Frankie Guzman, former Assistant to the Director, has been awarded the highly competitive and prestigious Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. Frankie, who is in his second year at UCLA School of Law, was one of 30 winners chosen from a pool of 1,000 applicants.
 - (l to r) Associate Justice Martin Jenkins of the California Court of Appeal, Sara Madge, and NCYL Director John O’Toole
NCYL Attorney Sara Madge has passed the Massachusetts Bar and was sworn in by Associate Justice Martin Jenkins of the California Court of Appeal on Feb. 1, 2011. Sara is a deferred associate from Ropes & Gray LLP who will spend one year at NCYL working to ensure access to mental health care for foster children and for those in the juvenile justice system. She is also working on issues related to adolescent health care, particularly on consent and confidentiality laws.
Sara earned her B.A. Magna Cum Laude from the University of Southern California in 2003 and her J.D Cum Laude from Harvard Law School in 2010.
 - Nabilah Siddiquee
Nabilah Siddiquee is in her third year at Berkeley Law. After graduating from Yale with a degree in history, Nabilah completed a master’s degree at Harvard, where she studied Islam, gender, and human rights, with a focus on family law reform in the Middle East. She worked at Ain-o-Shalish Kendra, a legal aid and human rights organization in Bangladesh, where she researched guardianship and adoption laws and advocated for policy reform. In law school, Nabilah has worked at the California Asylum Representation Clinic and the East Bay Community Law Center’s Housing Practice. She has also worked at the Brennan Center for Justice, Human Rights Watch, and Children’s Rights in New York. Nabilah is working with NCYL attorneys Bryn Martyna and Leecia Welch on Henry A. v. Willden, NCYL’s foster care reform case in Clark County (Las Vegas), Nevada.
NCYL has been approved for a $250,000 grant from the Sandler Foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund, $100,000 of which will be structured as a challenge grant. Learn how you can help.
- 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 thousands of low-income children through class action lawsuits, 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:
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 Nancy Berger at (510) 835-8098, x3008, or nberger(at)youthlaw.org.
Additional information about donations can be found under Support NCYL.
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