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4.8KMore Protections for Juvenile Offenders Are Before California Legislators
Proposed legislation would move juvenile justice in California closer to rehabilitating youth rather than punishing them, juvenile advocates say.
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Implementing Evidence-Based Juvenile Justice Reforms
The Urban Institute summarizes and analyzes the effectiveness of the implementation of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Juvenile Justice...
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2.0KGault at 50: Conference to Offer Tips for ‘Front-line’ Juvenile Lawyers
You could call it the obscene phone call heard ‘round the world. The May 1967 Supreme Court ruling that threw out Gerald...
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1.5KCommunity Organizations Play a Big Role in Raising Graduation Rates, Advocates Say
Nonprofit leaders working to raise the nation’s high school graduation rate say it’s an economic imperative, and they say out-of-school-time (OST) partners...
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803Rally Held to Support Jessica Colotl’s Immigration Fight to Keep Dreamer Status
Advocacy groups and protesters rallied this weekend downtown in support of Jessica Colotl, whose Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status was recently...
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1.9KBeyond the Cities: Closing the Gap in Rural Areas
Earlier this year, students in the High Desert Leapin’ Lizards after-school program in Kern County, California, got a glimpse of life on...
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Juvenile Court Statistics 2014
This new report form the National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJJ) takes a comprehensive and statistical look at delinquency and petitioned status...
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2.1KMentors & Change Makers: Meet Some of the People Working to Bring Opportunity to Kids
As the gap between the nation’s poorest and wealthiest citizens has grown during the past four decades, so has the gulf in...
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5.4KA Look Back at the Juvenile Justice System Before There Was Gault
The case is a half-century old this week, a landmark decision that merged jurisprudence, common sense and fortunate timing to reshape juvenile...
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1.5KMothers Whose Children Have Been Arrested, Killed by Police Meet to Organize
The mother never wanted to talk in public about what happened to her son. For 24 years — since her then-17-year-old son...
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1.5KCuts in 21st Century Learning Centers Could Drastically Hurt Mississippi, Leaders Say
Some youth-serving organizations in Mississippi are holding their breaths. They’re waiting to see whether $14 million dries up. That’s the amount currently...
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1.6KThank a Youth Worker Day: Self-renewal Important for Those Who Champion Kids, Nonprofit Founder Says
The executive director of ProAct, an Indianapolis nonprofit, works with kids ages 10 to 18 to connect them with community projects so...
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1.6KJessica Colotl Again Threatened With Deportation by U.S. Immigration and Customs and Enforcement
"Just because someone is driving without a license or ends up in jail for a minor traffic violation ... [they] should not...
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Newsmakers | May-June 2017
Walter Isaacson - Kent McGuire - Colleen A. Kelly - John Goodwin - Tonya Allen - Barbara Wong
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2.4KLA’s Youth Probation Camps Have a Problem With Graduating Kids (But Not What you Think)
The Los Angeles County Office of Education boasts that scores of young people who were at risk of dropping out of high...
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Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Raising High School Graduation Rates
Civic Enterprises and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University released the latest edition of this annual report examining the the...
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1.5KIn-Person Visits, New Underwear, More Counseling: Key Changes Sought in California Juvenile Detention
Should youth incarcerated in California juvenile halls and camps be entitled to new underwear? Should family and friends be assured that their...
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3.0KFear of Deportation Leads to Rise in Mental Health Symptoms Among Youth
For 17-year-old Alejandro, dealing with anxiety has been a normal part of teenage life.
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1.1K21st Century Learning Centers Get Budget Reprieve Until September
Millions of low-income kids just got a guarantee they’d have something to do this summer. And so did a cadre of educators...
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3.4KOut-Of-School Time Organizations Play Pivotal Role
Brittany Fisher grew up in the South End of Hartford, Connecticut, a tough neighborhood where gangs flourished. When she entered South Middle...
