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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.

CHILD WELFARE/FOSTER CARE

  • NCYL does trainings on how foster parents can better advocate for the children in their care; and effective representation of foster children in juvenile court. For more information please contact Rebecca Gudeman.

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.

NCYL 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
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