National Center for Youth Law
Programs
Compassionate Education Systems
Compassionate Education Systems (CES Formerly known as FosterEd): This program of National Center for Youth Law ("NCYL") improves the social, emotional, relational, and educational outcomes for youth in foster care, the juvenile justice system, and youth experiencing homelessness. The CES team collaborates with state and local agencies through demonstration sites to ensure that the voices of young people are central to the decision-making process on issues that impact their lives, building healing-centered school and agency cultures, and ensuring effective coordination amongst schools, community and public agencies. This team currently operates as a statewide program in Arizona focused on foster youth and demonstration sites in four California counties. Sites in Los Angeles and Contra Costa counties focus on youth in foster care, Santa Clara county focuses on youth in the juvenile justice system, and in Monterey the focus is on youth who are experiencing homelessness.GeographiesNot indicatedDatesJan 1, 2023 – Dec 31, 2023Source990No causes providedNo populations provided–$4.1MReproductive Health Equity Project
Health & Information: NCYL leads the Reproductive Health Equity Project for Foster Youth, a collective impact initiative that partners with youth with lived experiences in the foster care system and multiple public and private agencies to dismantle system-level barriers that impede youth in foster care from accessing sexual and reproductive health care and education. Our Collaborative Responses to Commercial Sexual Exploitation Initiative brings together public agencies and community partners to change perceptions, build trust, develop and implement policy, and transform systems and community responses to commercial sexual exploitation to ensure survivors are supported to heal and thrive. Finally, our Health team works to ensure that youth across the country can access confidential healthcare, including mental healthcare, and that healthcare providers understand the laws that impact their work with adolescents.GeographiesNot indicatedDatesJan 1, 2023 – Dec 31, 2023Source990No causes providedNo populations provided–$3.5MYouth Justice and Equity Campaigns
Juvenile Justice: NCYL's youth justice and justice & equity campaigns are transforming the youth justice system and working to end the use of juvenile fines and fees in states across the country. In these areas, NCYL works on collective impact campaigns that leverage coalition building, communication strategies, training and technical assistance, and the direct engagement of youth and families to create changes based on principles of healthy youth development to juvenile justice system policies and practices.GeographiesNot indicatedDatesJan 1, 2023 – Dec 31, 2023Source990No causes providedNo populations provided–$2.9M
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