Category: In the News

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed several significant child welfare and youth justice bills into law last week, capping a year of investments in the state’s most vulnerable children and families.

CLC’s Policy Team has been working tirelessly on Assembly Bill 670 in an effort to prevent children of parenting foster youth from entering the child welfare system.

Think of Us founder, Sixto Cancel, shares his story of growing up in foster care in The New York Times.

CLC’s Director of Policy & Training, Susan Abrams, spoke with The Imprint about the available pandemic relief for youth in foster care.

CLC’s Director of Policy and Training shares with NPR the financial challenges many youth face exiting foster care experience in Los Angeles County.

Why are Black children removed from homes at high rate? America’s largest child welfare system will soon test whether race, ethnicity or neighborhood can influence social workers’ decisions to remove children from their homes.