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Abascal Fellow
Mental Health
Primary office: Oakland, CA
Email: acrapo(at)youthlaw.org
Phone: (510) 835-8098
Fax: (510) 835-8099
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Allison Crapo joined NCYL in April 2008 as part of the Santa Clara Juvenile Mental Health Court team. There, she will be acting as a civil advocate and collaborator in promoting access to mental health services. She has been awarded the Ralph Santiago Abascal Fellowship from the University of California Hastings College of Law to work with youth who have unmet mental health problems and are involved in the juvenile justice system.
Before joining NCYL, Allison clerked at the Legal Community Against Violence, a public interest legal organization devoted to gun violence prevention. There, she contributed to legal analysis of federal and state case law, statutes, and administrative opinions on gun control. She also provided technical assistance to city and county governments, advocacy groups, and law enforcement. Allison also clerked at the Technical Assistance Legal Center (part of Public Health Law & Policy), which composes model ordinances for counties and cities on tobacco control and provides technical assistance to advocacy groups. She has also volunteered at the Alameda County Superior Court Self-Help Services Center.
Allison earned her J.D. from U.C. Hastings, where she participated in the Hastings Civil Justice Individual Representation Clinic. Before law school, Allison earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania, where she worked on early modern philosophy and wrote her dissertation on Scottish empiricist David Hume and our beliefs about the external world. She graduated from Harvard-Radcliffe College, cum laude, with a B.A. in Philosophy. Allison grew up in Idaho where, yes, she lived on a potato farm.
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