Texas Foster Youth Justice Project provides free legal help to people who have experienced foster care, who are homeless, or who lack family support. Legal Issues That We Can Help With:

• Obtain your identification documents
• Advocate for your rights while you are in foster care
• Assist with transition planning if you feel your needs are not being met
• Help your voice be heard in court
• Request your CPS records after you turn 18
• Access and keep Medicaid benefits
• Connect you with DFPS staff who are responsible for providing your benefits, including your tuition waiver

• Understand your immigration status and replace lost or stolen documents
• Change or correct your name
• Seal juvenile records and expunge eligible criminal records
• Help to resolve current or old Class C citations and restore driver license eligibility
• Assist in returning to extended foster care
• Appeal a denial of SSI benefits
• Ask the court for visits with your siblings
• Emancipation for 16- and 17-year-olds who are not in foster care