The New Directions Alternative Education Center in Manassas, Va. won a 2013 National Dropout Prevention Network award for their work. L-R: Principal...
Standing room only at the 25th annual National Dropout Prevention Network Conference, with a keynote address by former Education Secretary Bill Bennett....
Approximately 200 state lawmakers, staff and advocates from across the country at a child welfare forum at the National Conference of State Legislatures...
AmeriCorps volunteers leave the State and National program and the NCCC feeling more connected to their communities, more likely to vote, to...
At 20 years old, AmeriCorps is the same age as many of its volunteers. And like any young adult, it is trying...
Videos taken within flattened schools by survivors of this week’s Oklahoma tornadoes show the damage through a simple lens. Children see things...
Starting this fall, students in a pilot program for Georgia high schools are set to start learning about child sex trafficking. It’s...
Left: Francine Sherman; ” There’s always some discussion of what fits” the definition of child sexual exploitation, said Francine Sherman, a professor...
ATLANTA — In far north Georgia, 17-year-old “Brandon” lives in a group home. He has been the ward of two states in...
Organizations that serve youth must overlap their defenses against sexual predators, say experts at a youth protection conference organized by the Boy Scouts...
Pennsylvania will prosecute former Penn State President Graham Spanier on charges that he helped cover up sex abuse charges against former assistant...
Nearly two years ago, more than a dozen welfare experts trooped to Capitol Hill to testify about challenges to American children and...
Unless the U.S. Congress agrees on a different budget by the end of this year, stopping a so-called “sequestration” budget, federal spending...
Months after a White House study committee published a list of recommendations, a big tent of advocates and scholars are starting to...
Meridian is not alone under the DOJ magnifying glass. In a somewhat similar case in Tennessee, the DOJ says the Juvenile Court...
Lionel Townsend will turn 14 in September and a few months after that he will be able to return to school, ending...
The strings tying millions of federal dollars to foster care will be loosed in the coming months, allowing up to 10 states...
By Maggie Lee, Audrey Cheng and Amy Li Juan Sancen was 12 years old when he came to the United States. He’s...
Jessica Colotl says her life is a series of hearings since the struggle began between her and federal and state authorities over...
Pennsylvania State University says it will administer the $60 million fund for prevention and treatment of child sexual abuse mandated by an...