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Despite the availability of health insurance under ACA for over a year, many eligible young adults across the country have not enrolled – primarily because they don’t know that they qualify.

Executive Director and Co-Founder, Bob Schwartz, on Juvenile Law Center's 40-year odyssey of acheiving justice and ensuring opportunities for children at risk.

As the country spends April doing more for children in dire circumstances, we’re leading efforts to protect child welfare- and justice-involved youth from abusive conditions.

Ten years ago, in Anderson v. Houston, Juvenile Law Center and the ACLU sued the Pennsylvania state child welfare agency for discriminating against relatives who sought to become foster parents. Since Anderson, federal law has radically shifted, but too many youth still age out of foster care without finding family.