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1.3KFrom New York to LA: The best of Our Foster Care Coverage
For the past year, the Center for Sustainable Journalism has directed much of its attention to foster care issues, featuring mentorship, care...
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1.4KSouth Carolina Close to Raising Age for Juvenile Offenders to 17
This week South Carolina lawmakers approved “raise the age” legislation that would increase the upper age of juvenile jurisdiction from 16 to...
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1.6KGAO Calls for Reducing Barriers to College for Foster and Homeless Youth
Burdensome paperwork requirements, limited academic preparation and a lack of adult guidance and support make it difficult for foster and homeless youth...
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4.9KCalifornia Law to Close Group Homes Stresses Importance of Family for Every Foster Kid
Katrina Alston wasn’t trained as a therapist, social worker or anything of that nature when she worked at a Pasadena, California, group...
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K-12 Education: Better Use of Information Could Help Agencies Identify Disparities and Address Racial Discrimination
This new report commission by the U.S. Government Accountability Office discusses data concerning the economic and racial make-up of K-12 students in...
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Reduced Disparities in Birth Rates Among Teens Aged 15–19 Years
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds a significant and widespread national drop in teen pregnancy rates across all ethnic groups...
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Better Collaboration Key to Helping Crossover Youth, Panelists Say
A Senate Judiciary hearing, held this week as part of National Foster Care Month, looked at how jurisdictions across the country are...
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13.4KTeen Stress and the Growing Brain
Anyone who works with adolescents knows what recent science has confirmed: Teenagers just don’t think like adults. In fact, researchers have known...
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3.6KBeating the Odds: Boosting School Success Rates for Students in Foster Care
Before moving from her biological mother’s home and into foster care at age 10, Kathy Rando was in the gifted program at...
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1.6KMore Foster Homes Needed, Lawmakers Move Away from Group Homes
Advocates spoke up at Capitol Hill briefing about the need for more supports for foster families and kinship care as states decrease...
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794The Redhound Formula: Teach Literacy All Year With Engaging Activities, School Connection, Community Support
Year-round support in out-of-school-time programs provides much-needed support for kids whose literacy skills lag behind their peers. Redhound Enrichment, in rural Corbin,...
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2.4KTeen Birth Rate Drops Dramatically, Still Huge Issue for Foster Kids
Jessica Chandler spent her teenage years in foster care in California after her parents divorced and her mother struggled with mental illness....
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5.5KKeeping Adolescents Engaged: What Can After-School Programs Do?
Chicago high school students practice glassblowing in their out-of-school time program. Working with fire, creating their own designs out of molten glass...
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2.6KMaya-American Youth: A New Population at Risk in the U.S.
Hundreds of thousands or perhaps several million children with Native American Maya heritage have been born in the United States during the...
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3.2KFDA Anti-Smoking Campaign Focuses on LGBT Youth
The Food & Drug Administration wants young lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender smokers to know there’s no safe amount of tobacco use.
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2.2KA Whole New Tech World for Foster Care Youth in New York City
Foster youth attending a Tech Summit last weekend walked away with laptops, wifi and introductions to new skills.
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1.5KHomeless Youth Count Turns Up Surprises in Atlanta
Young people experiencing homelessness in and around Atlanta are more numerous, more connected and more hopeful than previously believed. They band together...
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6.5KLos Angeles Trying New Tactics to Help Children, Many in Foster Care, Who Are Sexually Trafficked
Withelma “T” Ortiz Walker Pettigrew grew up in the foster care system in Los Angeles, where she lived in 14 different group...
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2.8KBig Brothers Big Sisters Seeks More Diverse Volunteers
Four years ago, Lillian Pucha, 28, was balancing schoolwork with raising three children in the Bronx. Her oldest, Brandon, was 7 years...
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A Shared Sentence – The Devastating Toll of Parental Incarceration on Kids, Families and Communities
This new report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation details the effects over-incarceration of adults has on on our nation's youth and...
