While extracurricular and enrichment activities like summer camp, dance lessons and sports are a key part of most children’s childhood, […more…]

Youth Law Center’s Quality Parenting Initiative has created a national movement to change the policies, practices, and culture of foster […more…]

The participation of directly impacted youth in reform of our punitive and ineffective juvenile justice system is both necessary and […more…]

California’s juvenile justice system intervenes in the lives of some of the children who have experienced the greatest challenges, and […more…]

YLC’s new investigative report, Designed to Fail,  in partnership with Disability Rights Tennessee (DRT) exposes the inhumane and abusive treatment […more…]

May is National Foster Care Month, and during May, your donations up to $40,000 will be doubled. It’s the largest […more…]

YLC launched the Quality Parenting Initiative (QPI) over a decade ago as a national movement committed to ensuring that all […more…]

Caregivers are the earliest and best advocates for children, and have the lived experience and expertise to inform how and […more…]

“Testimonies are perhaps the most powerful tool in bringing Justice to the victims.” —Reb Shlomo of Bobov  In commemoration of Holocaust […more…]

With the eruption of war in Ukraine, Jewish Family and Children’s Services (JFCS) quickly mobilized to begin accepting donations for […more…]

2022 Leadership Award recipients tackle the state’s most critical and high-profile challenges The James Irvine Foundation today announced the recipients of […more…]

Ryan had big plans as he looked forward to high school. As the school year began online, however, his dreams […more…]

The lingering COVID-19 pandemic has required agencies across the health care spectrum to review their service-delivery models to ensure they […more…]

In December 2021, East Bay Children’s Law Offices, East Bay Family Defenders and Dependency Legal Services released results about their […more…]

It can be argued that philanthropy swears too much allegiance to the idea of perpetuity. That the charitable foundations bearing […more…]

The Youth Law Center’s Executive Director Jennifer Rodriguez knows just how hard being a child in the foster care and […more…]

For underperforming public schools across the country, the myriad challenges are plain to see. Too often, for students in those […more…]

Two decades ago, André V. Chapman was torn between his executive sales job in Silicon Valley and a nonprofit he’d […more…]

In March 2020, the U.S. government awarded Seneca Family of Agencies an important contract to coordinate mental health services for […more…]

Not long after the pandemic immobilized supply chains, causing a shortage of basic necessities at San Francisco Bay Area food […more…]

Jewish Family and Children’s Services (JFCS) was founded in San Francisco in 1850, the same year as the State of […more…]