Juvenile Law Center has created this guide, Promoting Normalcy for Children and Youth in Foster Care, to help states embed the new “normalcy” requirements of the law into their own state law and regulation.
Act 91 implemented within Pennsylvania the requirements of the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008, a federal law that provided financial
Act 91 implemented within Pennsylvania the requirements of the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008, a federal law that provided financial
Our youth advocates also worked in collaboration with video production experts at Temple University's University Community Collaborative to create a video to raise awareness about the face of youth homelessness.
In Ten Strategies to Reduce Juvenile Length of Stay Juvenile Law Center draws from a 50 state review of state statutes, conversations with national stakeholders and decision-makers, and input from preeminent researchers and scholars in the field. The publication aims to start a deeper conversation about state policies – including agency policy, state statute, and regulations – that can address the problem of unnecessarily long stays in juvenile facilities.
