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Events & Trainings

NCYL provides a range of services to help foster parents, attorneys, health care providers, teachers, child welfare workers, and other advocates working on behalf of children and youth.


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Nov. 2007 - NCYL attorneys provided trainings on a range of issues at two recent conferences – the National Legal Aid Defenders Association’s (NLADA) annual conference last month in Tucson, Ariz., and Beyond the Bench, an annual convening of more than 1,000 juvenile dependency and delinquency professionals from California, including judges, attorneys, social workers, and educators. Beyond the Bench is sponsored by the California Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC), Center for Families, Children & the Courts.


CHILD WELFARE/FOSTER CARE


ECONOMIC SECURITY

NCYL conducts trainings on Cal-Learn and Child Support to teens and providers. For more information please contact Patrick Gardner.


HEALTH/MENTAL HEALTH

  • NCYL provides trainings to health care providers on minor consent, confidentiality, and child abuse reporting. For more information please contact Rebecca Gudeman.
  • NCYL conducts trainings on the rights of children and adolescents to health and mental health care, and the circumstances under which teens are entitled to confidential medical care. For more information please contact Carin Ward or Rebecca Gudeman.

JUVENILE JUSTICE

NCYL also provides trainings on:

  • The rights of juveniles in government custody, including conditions of confinement
  • Development of models to provide civil advocacy as a component of representing youth in the juvenile justice system
  • Systemic litigation to improve juvenile public defense systems
  • Complex class litigation skills

For more information please contact Pat Arthur.

 

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