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.
This issue of Youth Law News celebrates 40 years of the National Center for Youth Law's leadership in child advocacy. I am proud to be associated with NCYL, the staff, Board members, and financial supporters who have contributed to its efforts to improve the lives of children in need.
For 40 years, the National Center for Youth Law (NCYL) has worked to protect the most vulnerable children in our society.
The Center is committed to furthering social justice by representing the rights of children who often have no voice in the political process or legal system. The primary way NCYL does this is by ensuring that public systems, like foster care, juvenile justice, and healthcare, are doing their jobs effectively.
The Center engages in targeted litigation and legislative reform, and consistently works with the media to make children's needs a priority. NCYL partners with other advocates across the country to strengthen its impact.read more
The National Center for Youth Law was founded in 1970 in San Francisco as the Youth Law Center. The goal of the Center, an offshoot of the San Francisco Legal Aid Society, was to use the law as a tool of social change, emulating the litigation successes of civil rights lawyers of the 1950s-60s.
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