Youth Today
The Los Angeles Bureau
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2.7KFewer DACA Students Enrolling in California Colleges
With President Donald Trump announcing his intent to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, college students in California fear this...
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4.4KNew Los Angeles Center Will Be For Transition-age Foster Youth
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Child Guidance Clinic is opening a new facility to expand their efforts to support transition-age foster...
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3.0KLos Angeles Charity Drive Supports Youth Housing
Charities from across Los Angeles County came together on April 15 to donate home goods to underprivileged youth. Led by the Los...
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3.7KAs Colleges Polarize Politically, Extremists Are Getting Younger
Colleges are becoming ideological battlegrounds. A national survey of freshman students found the incoming 2016 class was the most politically extreme in...
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3.8KLos Angeles Housing Patterns That Reinforced Segregation Reverberate to This Day
Land remains the starkest turf of bigotry in American life. Blacks have been kept out, locked in, preyed upon and segregated by...
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5.9KLos Angeles’ Vast Child Welfare System Has a Lot to Teach Rest of Nation
You can only find the entrance to the RightWay Foundation if you’re really looking for it. Hidden deep within the parking structure...
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6.8KLos Angeles School District Fighting Trauma With Wellness Centers
It is the second-largest school district in the nation with more than 640,000 students enrolled. It spans more than 720 square miles,...
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3.5KLos Angeles Reaction to Parkland Shooting Somewhat Muted
The response from the Los Angeles community, just shy of three weeks after the Sal Castro Middle School shooting and one week...
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4.4KFrom Dropout to Diploma at Youth Opportunities Unlimited in Los Angeles
Last year, 11th-grader Terri Holden, 17, found herself on the road to dropping out of high school — like one in every...
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1.9KJohn Legend Plays Backup at Panel on Mass Incarceration
“We have allowed our most vulnerable children to be thrown away, to be traumatized, to be locked up in these...
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3.8KBobby Cagle, New LA Child Welfare Chief, to Find High Demand, Too Few Foster Homes
Bobby Cagle, a former foster child and caseworker, is set to take over as head of Los Angeles Department of Children and...
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3.5KCalifornia Tries — With Difficulty — to Implement 2 Major New Laws to Help Sex-Trafficked Kids
California is attempting to switch to a victim-centered approach for its sexually trafficked youngsters. But...
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2.8KGetting $50 Million More for California After-school Programs Took Group 3 Years of Lobbying
California after-school programs statewide were able to breathe a small sigh of relief this year after Gov. Jerry Brown set...
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3.7KCalifornia Dreamers, Advocacy Groups Working Together in Hopes of Preserving DACA
Imagine working hard to achieve your dream of attending the University of California at Los Angeles, only to find after getting in...
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2.0KPoetry Helps Young Angeleno Cope With Deportation of Family Member
Eleven-year-old Violeta Esquivel feels uncomfortable in President Donald Trump's America, especially after he announced the phasing out of the DACA (Deferred Action...
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2.3KLA County Puts Thousands of Kids on ‘Voluntary’ Probation for Merely Struggling With School
Marbella Munoz was a foster child for most of her life. As is true for many foster children bounced through multiple placements,...
