Organizations Filed Purposes:
The National Center for Youth Law, ("NCYL"), advances justice by defending the rights of children and improving the systems impacting their lives. We focus on complex challenges that disproportionately impact children and communities of color and on solutions that require multiple public systems to change their policies, practices and culture. For almost five decades, we have led cross-sector campaigns that weave together research, public awareness, demonstration projects, policy advocacy,coalition building, technical assistance, and litigation, when necessary.
FosterEd: The FosterEd program at NCYL improves the social, emotional, relational, and educational outcomes for youth in foster care, the juvenile justice system, and homeless youth. The FosterEd team collaborates with state and local agencies through demonstration sites to ensure that the voice of youth is at the center of the decisions that are made in their life, building healing centered school and agency cultures and ensuring effective coordination amongst schools, community and public agencies. The FosterEd team currently operates as a statewide program in Arizona focused on foster youth and demonstration sites in four California counties. Sites in Los Angeles and Contra Costa counties focus on youth in foster care, Santa Clara county focuses on youth in the juvenile justice system, and in Monterey the focus is on youth who are experiencing homelessness.
Juvenile Justice: NCYL's juvenile justice campaigns are transforming California's youth justice system and ending the use of juvenile fines and fees in states across the country. The California Youth Justice Initiative is a statewide collective impact campaign that leverages coalition building, communication strategies, training and technical assistance, and the direct engagement of youth and families to create changes to juvenile justice system policies and practices.
Health & Information: NCYL leads the Los Angeles Reproductive Health Equity Project for Foster Youth, a collective impact initiative that partners with youth with lived experiences in the foster care system and multiple public and private agencies to dismantle system-level barriers that impede youth in LA County foster care from accessing sexual and reproductive health care and education. Our Collaborative Responses to Commercial Sexual Exploitation Initiative brings together public agencies and community partners to change perceptions, build trust, develop and implement policy, and transform systems and community responses to commercial sexual exploitation to ensure survivors are supported to heal and thrive. Finally, our Adolescent Health team works to ensure that youth across the country can access confidential healthcare, including mental healthcare, and that healthcare providers understand the laws that impact their work with adolescents.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Jesse Hahnel | Executive Director | 37.5 | $203,704 |
| Leecia Welch | Senior Dir., Child Welfare | 37.5 | $160,258 |
| Karla James | Sr. Dir., Fin. & Operation | 37.5 | $157,606 |
| Seth Galanter | Senior Dir., Legal Advocacy | 37.5 | $149,219 |
| Laura Francois | Senior Dir. FosterEd | 37.5 | $142,824 |
| Rebecca Gudeman | Senior Dir., Health | 37.5 | $138,647 |
| Michael Harris | Senior Dir., Juvenile Just | 37.5 | $137,267 |
| Mona Tawatao | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Sandeep Solanki | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Lori Schechter | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Brian Rocca | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Jason Okonofua | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Mary E Mccutcheon | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Walter P Loughlin | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Jack Londen | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Laura K Lin | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Sophie Fanelli | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| David Brown | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Mary Bissell | Secretary | 1 | $0 |
| James D Weill | Treasurer | 1 | $0 |
| Christopher Wu | Vice President | 1 | $0 |
| Peter B Edelman | President | 1 | $0 |
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