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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.
- AB 490: Ensuring Educational Rights for Foster Youth Training and Implementation materials on California Assembly Bill 490.
- NCYL also 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.
NCYL conducts trainings on Cal-Learn and Child Support to teens and providers. For more information please contact Patrick Gardner.
- 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 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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