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Labor and Sex Trafficking Among Homeless Youth
The Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Research and the Loyola University Modern Slavery Research Project conducted interviews with a sample...
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1.7KStudents Are ‘Losers’ from DeVos Rollback of College Loan Protections
Educators, lawmakers and advocates said Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ decision to gut loan protections not only hurts student borrowers, but represents a...
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1.7KFunding Cut for 21st Century Community Learning Centers Could Maim After-school for Low-income Kids, Advocates Say
Each day after school, kids at Community Works in New Orleans can be found gardening, playing sports, programming software, making music and...
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1.6KYouth Today Reporter Wins Award for Social Justice Coverage
Karen Savage, a recent New York-based reporter for JJIE and Youth Today, has received The Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for Social Justice...
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4.1KTeen Girls’ Photos Raise Awareness of Health Disparities
“Where you live, where you go to school, the amenities in your community, all those things matter to community health.” Beatriz Solis,...
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1.9KAccess to Arts Is Linked to Greater Well-Being in Economically Disadvantaged Neighborhoods, Study Says
As spring slides toward summer, kids at the Sitar Arts Center in Washington, D.C, are beginning to audition for roles in the...
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Raise the Age: Shifting to a Safer and More Effective Juvenile Justice System
This new report from the Justice Policy Institute highlights the growing movement known as "Raise the Age" which seeks to convince state...
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1.2KNew York State Resolves To Raise the Age for Juvenile Court Proceedings
And then there was one. New York State legislators voted Sunday night to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 18, capping...
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5.2KJuvie Talk: A Window Into the Lives of Kids in Trouble, a Resource for Educators
The website Juvie Talk is a compilation of verbatim stories of more than 100 young people in the juvenile justice system. The...
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1.3KMore Families Struggling to Feed Children Reach Out for Help in Queens
Three weeks after Thanksgiving, Rosana Borges sat at her dining room table and picked at the last piece of turkey in a...
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1.8KActivists Hopeful ‘Torture’ of NY Teens Ends With Passage of Raise the Age Legislation This Year
Alicia Barraza started her testimony with statistics. Sixteen- and 17-year-olds who serve time in New York’s adult facilities are twice as likely...
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Newsmakers | March-April 2017
George E. Ross - Scott Wise - Hanne Rasmussen - Amy B. Robinson - Annette Lanjouw - Jason McGill
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Barriers to Success: Moving Toward a Deeper Understanding of Adversity’s Effects on Adolescents
The Center for Promise at America's Promise Alliance outlines the effects of adverse life experiences on the development and mental health of...
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See How the #NoExcusesBus Works
For even more photos with our story about the New York organization that works with children at risk of chronic absenteeism, see...
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1.4KPoverty Simulation Pushes Educators, Youth Workers to Reflect, Relate
Educators and youth workers participated in the National Youth-At-Risk Conference's annual poverty simulation in Savannah, Georgia, in March 2017.
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Promising Gains, Persistent Gaps: Youth Disconnection in America
This new report from Measure of America presents findings gathered from the latest data about youth across the country who are neither...
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2.6KN.C. Raise the Age Supporters Hope for Change in Law
David Johnson was 16 years old when he faced his first criminal charge in a North Carolina court that considered him an...
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3.0KInnovative Summer Learning Programs Bubble up, Draw Attention at the State Level
In New Britain, Connecticut, elementary school students can get a passport at the beginning of summer, listing places in the community they...
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How Should Justice Policy Treat Young Offenders?
The MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience produced this brief highlighting the latest findings in research on adolescent brain development...
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1.2KOrganizations That Provide Creative Escape From Prison Start to Connect
Life prospects appeared bleak for 17-year-old Terrance Williams on a quiet Saturday in the spring of 2013.
