NCYL Senior Attorney Rebecca Gudeman will hold several workshops on minor consent and confidentiality at the 2008 California Adolescent Health Conference, taking place Sept. 18 and 19 in Los Angeles. For more information about the Conference, go to www.californiateenhealth.org/conference_2008_program.asp
NCYL Senior Attorney Pat Arthur did a training June 18-19 in Seattle at the National Conference on Homeless Youth and the Law. Pat was one of three panelists discussing national policy on homeless youth. She presented on the unnecessary and often harmful incarceration of youth for status offenses, such as running away or disorderly conduct, and the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act. Fellow panelists included Bill Treanor, Executive Director and Publisher, Youth Today; and Curtis Porter, Acting Associate Commissioner, Family and Youth Services Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The conference was co-sponsored by the American Bar Association Commission on Youth at Risk and the National Network for Youth, in Collaboration with Casey Family Programs.
For more information about the training, and for training materials, go to: www.youthlaw.org/events/
