Options when you cannot live with your parents:
1. Caregiver’s Authorization Affidavit (English) (Spanish)
2. Legal Rights and Options for Runaway Teens
4. Are You Ready to be a Guardian?
School
6. Suspension- Expulsion Manual
7. School Discipline Fact Sheet
8. Special Education and School Discipline Factsheet
Immigration
9. Know Your Rights for Undocumented Youth (English) (Spanish) (Chinese)
10. Immigration Factsheet for Youth- Released from ORR (English) (Spanish)
11. Immigration Factsheet for Youth- Detained at YGC in San Francisco (English) (Spanish)
12. Immigration Factsheet for Parents of Youth Detained at YGC in San Francisco (English) (Spanish)
LGBT Youth
This easy-to-use resource contains the first-ever set of comprehensive professional guidelines for how child welfare and juvenile justice professionals can best serve LGBT youth in state care. The Best Practice Guidelines for Serving LGBT Youth in Out of Home Care developed out of recommendations from the Model Standards Project, a collaboration between Legal Services for Children and the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
To order a free copy of The Best Practice Guidelines visit Child Welfare League of America’s website.
14. Hidden Injustice
Hidden Injustice represents the first effort to examine the experiences of LGBT youth in juvenile courts across the country. This 178-page report is based on information collected from 414 surveys and 65 interviews of juvenile justice professionals, including judges, defense attorneys, prosecutors, probation officers, detention staff, and other juvenile justice advocates; focus groups and interviews of 55 youth with relevant firsthand experience; and an extensive review of relevant social science and legal research findings.
To order a free copy of Hidden Injustice visit National Center for Lesbian Right’s website.
Healthcare
