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This lawsuit charges Nevada and Clark County officials with failing to protect the health and safety of children in foster care. The suit seeks money damages for 13 children named in the lawsuit, as well as system improvements for several classes of children that represent more than half of the 3,600 children in foster care in Clark County, which encompasses Las Vegas.
This case challenged California's policy of denying cash assistance to relative caregivers when the children they care for get in trouble with the law and are returned home on probation.
This case was originally brought in August 1998, on behalf of 13 current and former foster children seeking damages for injuries plaintiffs suffered as a result of state agency’s practice of shuttling them from one foster home and facility to another.
David C. (formerly David C. v. Leavitt) is a child welfare reform class action brought in 1993, on behalf of all foster children and children reported as abused or neglected in the state of Utah. NCYL and Utah officials signed an agreement to end the case in May 2007. The system is now regarded as a national model.
NCYL won a major case in California, securing fair and equal treatment of foster youth who play high school sports. This victory could potentially affect thousands of foster youth in the state.
This case challenged California's policy of denying cash assistance to relative caregivers when the children they care for get in trouble with the law and are returned home on probation.
NCYL is co-counsel, seeking a writ of mandate directing DSS to administer the Adoption Assistance Program in accordance with the law and directing Respondent Dennis Boyle, Director of the California Department of Social Services, to withdraw his department’s approval of the Modified Specialized Care Program.
Lawyers representing Arizona’s Medicaid-eligible children filed JK v. Dillenberg, now JK v. Eden, a class action lawsuit seeking improved access to behavioral health care.
NCYL is co-counsel in this child welfare reform class action against the California Department of Health Services, Los Angeles County’s Department of Children and Family Services, and the California Department of Social Services, seeking the establishment and implementation of a community-based mental health service delivery system for California’s children in state foster care or at imminent risk of out-of-home placement.
The state’s largest and most influential groups advocating for homeless individuals with mental illness have sued Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to restore a highly effective program they say is vital to their clients’ safety and well-being.
TR et al. v. Dreyfus is a class action lawsuit seeking to end the cycle of juveniles winding up in state mental institutions by ensuring poor children have access to adequate mental health care in their homes and communities. The complaint was filed November 24, 2009.
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