The National Center for Youth Law
works to ensure that low-income children have the resources, support, and opportunities they need for healthy and productive lives.
The federal Title X family planning program makes family planning and related health services available for free or at low cost to eligible individuals, including adolescents, in every state.
The FosterEd Initiative was recently awarded $100,000 by the Central Indiana Community Foundation, and $75,000 by the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust in support of NCYL’s education work in Indiana.
While Washington has met only six of the outcomes established for Braam v. Washington, it has made improvements that affect children’s health, safety, and stability.
The parties to TR v. Dreyfus, a class-action lawsuit seeking to ensure poor children’s access to adequate mental health care in their homes and communities, are in mediation in an effort to reach a settlement.
Youth spend less time in detention and are less likely to get in trouble with the law after participating in Alameda County's Collaborative Mental Health Court.
NCYL and other mental health advocates were rebuffed in their efforts to save a model program that provided intensive community-based services to nearly 5,000 adults with serious mental illness.
The National Center for Youth Law, Disability Rights Texas, and Texas Appleseed have issued a new report: Thinking Outside the Cell: Alternatives to Incarceration for Youth with Mental Health Needs.
NCYL has been approved for a $250,000 grant from the Sandler Foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund, $100,000 of which will be structured as a challenge grant. Learn how you can help.
As a state support center, funded in part by the State Bar of California's IOLTA program, NCYL provides services to qualified legal services programs free of charge.
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