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LSC Info
For Youth
This form allows your adult caretaker to enroll you in school. If s/he is a relative, s/he may also consent to medical care for you. No parental signature required!
Questions & Answers About Emancipation for Teenagers
The Facts About Consenting to Health Care
A survival guide for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Youth under 18
For Providers
Authors: Shannan Wilber, Legal Services for Children, Caitlin Ryan, Cesar Chavez Institute, & Jody Marksamer, National Center for Lesbian Rights
This new book contains the first-ever set of comprehensive recommendations about how child welfare and juvenile justice professionals can best serve and work with LGBT youth in state care. This easy-to-use resource gives child welfare and juvenile justice agencies across the country a powerful tool to help make a cultural shift to LGBT-inclusive programming in order to become the supportive systems that LGBT youth in state care need to grow into healthy and happy adults. The Best Practice Guidelines for Serving LGBT Youth in Out-of Home Care grew out of the recommendations that developed over the course of the Model Standards Project, a collaboration between Legal Services for Children and the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
You can purchase hardcopies of this book from CWLA:
Call 1.800.407.6273 or visit www.cwla.org/pubs. ISBN# 1-58760-095-1, Stock Number: 10951, Price: $14.95. or download a pdf copy
A Guide to Obtaining Legal Guardianships
Annual Reports
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