In November 2018, a group of young people in foster care in Kansas, represented by NCYL and its partners, filed a lawsuit challenging Kansas’s failure to protect the safety and well-being of children and youth in the custody of the Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF). The lawsuit focused on two specific systemic issues: first, DCF’s failure to provide adequate housing for children in the state’s care, leading to extreme housing disruption, and second, the failure to provide needed mental and behavioral health screening, diagnostic services, and treatment, including trauma-related services.
https://youthlaw.org/cases/mb-v-howard