National Center for Youth Law – National Center for Youth Law believes in the incredible power, agency, and wisdom of youth. Driven by their voices and experiences, they have worked for more than 50 years to transform government agencies and public systems, so that they Center Youth with equity, dignity, and care. NCYL works to ensure children and youth in foster care benefit from a positive and stable home-like environment. They dismantle practices that harm children in foster care, ensure youth in foster care have access to health care and education, and promote youth-, community-, and family-centered policies that preserve families and reduce reliance on the foster care system. NCYL works to transform the youth justice system so that it better embodies true justice and equity for children. They advance community-based, health-centered alternatives to harmful system practices and build towards a culture in which the system treats children as children.