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1.8KPublic’s Myths About Marijuana Use Need to Be Dispelled
As the United States grapples with how to best address juvenile and youthful offenders, criminal justice reform is focusing on the best...
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2.2KSouth Dakota YWCA ‘Breakaway’ Provides Services to Youth, Women
A jumble of multicolored wires spilled out of the open side of a computer as Leilani Liggins, 6, dressed in a pink...
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3.3KSocial Workers, Navigators Help Mississippi Foster Youth Transition To College
By the time she turned 6, Jessica Reese had been sexually abused repeatedly. Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services took Reese and...
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2.0KNew York Successfully Preventing Gun Violence By Working With Youth, Their Community
Neighborhood conditions like exposure to violence are unacceptable, and undoubtedly create numerous negative outcomes. However, there are additional factors that consistently show...
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3.9KThe Self-sufficiency of Youth in Care Can Hurt Them in College
Students who have experienced foster care or homelessness are often doing it all: managing complicated and ever-changing family situations, carrying out adult-level...
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4.2KACEs Research Could Improve College Completion Rates for Foster Care Youth
For the past 13 years I have had the privilege of working with hundreds of students who enroll at our university. It...
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2.5KToxic Stress and Children’s Outcomes
The Economic Policy Institute shows how toxic stress in a child's life, which is disproportionately experienced by African American children, can disrupt...
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3.1KFederal Legislation Would Take Last Brake Off Foster Care Steamroller
Remember all those celebrations when the vastly overhyped Family First Prevention Services Act made it into law? Even some of those who...
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4.1KResistance to Restorative Justice: Understanding, Working Through Staff Skepticism
When you are trying to make the shift to a restorative justice mindset, having even a few teachers, support personnel or administrators...
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4.5KSTEM Programs for Middle Schoolers Go to the Library
When a “mobile science lab” shows up after school at a branch library in Hartford, Conn., kids cluster around it. They look...
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2.4KAdvocates Hope NY Court Ruling on Warrants for Foster Youth Leads to Reform
Christina Young remembers the day the cops came for her at school. She was fifteen years old — a sophomore at Murry...
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3.4KWe Must Change the Narrative About College With Youth Who Have Experienced Foster Care
While many high school seniors receive acceptance letters from colleges across the country this spring, young people who have experienced foster care...
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3.5KMBK Rising! Inspires Young People of Color to Be More Effective Leaders
When I arrived in Oakland, Calif., to attend the Obama Foundation’s MBK Rising! convening in February, I was one of many community...
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2.1KAlabama Mayor Says Peace is Everyone’s Responsibility
Mayor Randall Woodfin says Birmingham is ready for peace. With a call for communitywide investment, the mayor says it’s time for solutions...
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2.4KEliminating Racial Disparities in Maternal and Infant Mortality
The Center for American Progress provides a policy framework seeking to eliminate the stark and troubling racial disparities in maternal and infant...
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4.3KBirmingham Mayor, Grassroots Organizers Believe They Have Gun Violence Solutions
When Randall Woodfin received the call that his older brother, Ralph Jr., had been shot, he rushed to the scene in the...
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3.2KGeoffrey Canada Receives the Richard Murphy Leadership Award
Geoffrey Canada is the recipient of the Richard Murphy Leadership Award for his extraordinary accomplishments in the youth services field in New...
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3.2KGirl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles: CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles (GSGLA) is the largest girl serving organization in Southern California, and Girl Scouts is the world’s...
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2.3KJohn Etchemendy Named Family Violence & Domestic Relations Program Dir. at NCJFCJ
John D. Etchemendy is the new director of the family violence and domestic relations program at the National Council of Juvenile and...
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4.6KGirls in the Juvenile Justice System
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention uses data from three different national collections to provide a summary of the current...
