NCYL has met the terms of a challenge grant from the Sandler Foundation and received $250,000 from the Foundation! cont'd...
NCYL was among the many organizations that had received funding from the JEHT Foundation, whose benefactors had invested their funds with the Wall Street broker charged with perpetrating a $50 million Ponzi scheme. cont'd...
After overcoming his battle in court with the help of NCYL, Dalton Dyer and his Placer High Hillmen defeated Oakdale in the football team's CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV playoff game on Friday, November 28th.
Voisin: Dyer, 16, has lived in seven homes
The Sacramento Bee, November 26, 2008
AUBURN – Dalton Dyer never stops moving. His fingers tug at the sleeves of his T-shirt. He drapes a leg over a table in the multipurpose room near the Placer High School gym and, in one continuous motion, stands and leans against a wall.
A victory for foster youth
San Francisco Chronicle Editorial, November 26, 2008
It should not have taken a team of lawyers to allow Dalton Dyer and his Placer High teammates to participate in the Division IV playoffs. They earned it on the field.
Judge says foster youth can play football
San Francisco Chronicle, November 25, 2008
An Alameda County judge ruled Monday that the organization that oversees high school sports in California violated state law when it found a Placer County foster child ineligible to play football because of a paperwork mix-up by his school's athletic director.
Alameda Court Decides In Favor Of Placer High
KTVU, November 24, 2008
An unusual situation surrounding a high school football player's eligibility that jeopardized division four playoff games and even suspended a game over the weekend has been resolved in favor of Placer High School.
Decision May Allow Class Action
Las Vegas Review Journal, October 10, 2008
Child Welfare Lawsuit Getting an Appeal
Las Vegas Now, 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.
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