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And the Ebby Goes to . . .
EBCLO awarded its first ever EBCLO Ebbys at its Fifth Anniversary Party on October 16, 2014. All of the awardees played, and continue to play, an important role in AB12’s success in Alameda County. Allowing children to stay in foster care until age 21 was a...
Walter S. Johnson Foundation & Hedge Funds Care Support AB12
EBCLO’s AB12 Project has earned the support of the Walter S. Johnson Foundation and Hedge Funds Care. Originally began as a project through the Equal Justice Works Fellowship program, EBCLO is delighted to continue providing heightened services and special advocacy...
Gov. Brown Signs EBCLO Co-Sponsored Bill to End the Incarceration of Youth for Truancy
On June 28, 2014, Governor Brown signed SB 1296, the Decriminalization of Truancy Act, into law, closing a loophole that some courts have used to incarcerate youth for truancy. SB 1296 was authored by Senator Mark Leno and co-sponsored by EBCLO with the Youth Law...
National Foster Care Month: AB12 Close Up
By Liz Aleman, Equal Justice Works Law Fellow/Attorney, Sponsored by The Morrison and Foerster Foundation If you are still in foster care at 18, it means you were never adopted, nor reunited with your biological parents. You may have come into the system more...
Meet the EBCLO Social Workers!
"My goal is to instill hopefulness in my clients,” says EBCLO Youth Advocate Social Worker Emily Rodgers. “Seeing the challenges families face and learning from them about the ways they support each other is really fulfilling. If I can help instill a sense of...
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