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Pandemic Accelerated Rollout of Extended Foster Care ‘in Really Good Way’

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD) had been working for over a year toward launching...

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NM Schools Providing Academic Coaches, School Packets, Food to Struggling Students

The COVID-19 pandemic and the shift to online learning have exposed a number of unexpected and difficult educational achievement gaps for New...

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17 Rikers Workers to Be Disciplined for Transgender Woman’s Death in Solitary

The New York City Department of Corrections will discipline 17 officers for their conduct surrounding the death of 27-year-old Layleen Polanco, a...

Women in masks hold signs about ACS standing on sidewalk.

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Child Protective Services Target Minority, Poor Women, Report Says

In 2018, Elizabeth Brico left her Florida home for three days following a fight with her mother-in-law. After her mother-in-law called Florida’s...

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Syracuse Activists Skeptical of Executive Order on Police Reforms

The biggest promise of police reform came in Mayor Ben Walsh’s first executive order after 18 months in office. It happened on...

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How Are Youth With Disabilities Spending Their Money During COVID-19?

It seems like every day experts have new opinions on how the economy is being affected by COVID-19. Today alone, I’ve read...

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Photographer Gets Gassed, Sprayed on Front Lines of Police Reform Protests

The protest started peacefully with a diverse group gathering at police headquarters. Fathers holding toddlers on their shoulders stood next to young...

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2020 KIDS COUNT Data Book

The Annie E. Casey Foundation releases the 31st edition of its KIDS COUNT Data Book, describing how children across the United States were...

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DA Charges Tre’mall McGee, Teen Shot in Back While Prone, With Resisting Arrest

The Jefferson Parish District Attorney’s Office in Louisiana plans to continue its criminal case against the 14-year-old shot in the back as...

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Black Lives Matter Organizers In Rural Cortland County Are Tired Of Gestures

Few people downtown would look Steve Williams in the eye. Not the police officers stationed at each end of Courthouse Park. Not...

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Dr. Lorelle Espinosa is Sloan Foundation’s New Diversity in STEM Higher Ed Program Director

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation recently named Dr. Lorelle Espinosa as program director for diversity in STEM higher education. She succeeds Dr....

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System Change Means More Than Defunding Police

Calls for racial justice have reached a critical level in the U.S. and the world. This moment, which to many people seemed...

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We Need to Take Care of Each Other After COVID-19 Too

The Office of Neighborhood Safety (ONS) in Richmond, Calif., is a non-law enforcement governmental agency whose sole purpose is to reduce gun...

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YouthWorks in Massachusetts Reimagines Summer Youth Employment

This summer, teenagers in Massachusetts may be conducting oral history interviews about the impact of COVID-19 in their community. They may be...

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Where Are Young People With Disabilities Getting Their News About COVID-19?

Anyone who has worked in a newsroom knows that the way people consume news has changed dramatically over the past decades. When...

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NYPD Reforms That Ban Chokeholds, Hiding Badge IDs Pass City Council, Go to Mayor

After weeks of emotionally charged youth-led protests calling for sweeping reforms to root racism out of the criminal justice system in the...

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New York State Must Pause Aging Out From Foster System During COVID-19

As a young adult formerly in foster care, I know that people my age are confronted with a tough reality when their...

Fostering Inequity: How COVID-19 Amplifies Dangers For LGBTQ+ Youth in Care report; young LGBTQ+ woman in facemask

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Fostering Inequity: How COVID-19 Amplifies Dangers For LGBTQ+ Youth in Care

This new report from Children's Rights details how the COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating already difficult situations for LGBTQ+ youth in care facilities...

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