Above: NCYL Staff Attorney Bryn Martyna (left), Dalton Dyer (middle), and NCYL Director John O'Toole (right) |
NCYL has won a major victory on behalf of Dalton Dyer, a Placer High football player and California foster youth. An Alameda County Court ruled that the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) violated state law by requiring different eligibility paperwork to be filled out by foster children. The ruling also reinstated the Placer football team in the NCS playoffs. The decision will affect about 700,000 students in California. To read more, please click here.
October 9, 2008 - The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to hear an appeal by the National Center for Youth Law (NCYL) of a recent U.S. District Court ruling denying its motion for class certification in Clark K. v. Willden. For media coverage please click here.
September 22, 2008 - Federal Judge A. Howard Matz ordered parties in Katie A. to meet promptly and report back to the court by October 29 on how wraparound services can be covered by Medi-Cal and properly billed—thereby ensuring that mental health care providers will be reimbursed for delivering these critical services to children in foster care.
Sept. 4, 2008 - The most extensive single-state survey of foster youth anywhere in the country has been released by Washington State officials as part of the state’s efforts to reform its foster care system. It is one of the only surveys of foster youth in which they were questioned directly about their experiences. Read More
August 26, 2008 - NCYL has been actively working with the Arkansas Division of Youth Services (DYS) to reform Arkansas’ juvenile justice system. NCYL Senior Attorney Pat Arthur, in collaboration with DYS, has co-authored a report that provides a framework for reform. See Report
Judge Says County Must Produce Thousands of Files, Orders Sanctions
August 2008 - A federal judge last week gave Clark County Child Welfare Officials until Oct. 3 to turn over 1,100 child abuse files to the National Center for Youth Law (NCYL) and has also ordered they pay NCYL’s legal fees for the court fight to get the files.
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- One in five children in this country lives in poverty.
- Children are two times more likely to be poor than the elderly.
- More than 5 million children live in families with less than half the income that officially qualifies a family as "poor."
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