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1.2KFailure of Public, Political Will Threatens Progress on Child Welfare, Casey warns
Amid the charts and tables of this year’s Kids Count Data Book is a stark warning. The gains in children’s health, education...
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1.3KKids Compete, Learn in Juvenile Justice Jeopardy Game
Spending a Saturday morning in a classroom is not something most kids want to do. So why did 110 kids between 9...
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3.2K21st Century After-school Programs Connect Kids to Careers, Advocates Tell Congress
Colby Holmes, a recent high school graduate from the small town of New Hope, Alabama, found himself on Capitol Hill this week....
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2.7KP-TECH: Can a High School-College-Industry Partnership Provide a Model Path to Achievement?
When Katrice Wiley, a longtime Baltimore City Public Schools administrator, served as principal at a 6-12 school on the city’s east side,...
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2.4KLA County Puts Thousands of Kids on ‘Voluntary’ Probation for Merely Struggling With School
Marbella Munoz was a foster child for most of her life. As is true for many foster children bounced through multiple placements,...
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Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2016
The latest edition of this annual report by the National Center for Education Statistics and the Bureau of Justice Statistics examines the...
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2.2KIn Washington, D.C., Who’s Minding the Kids?
On June 7, after-school organizations across the county will send representatives to Capitol Hill to talk about the value of their program...
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5.6KHow LA County Began to Face Its Big Problem With Youth Being Sex-Trafficked
Michelle Guymon is a hero in the world of child sex trafficking prevention. Seven years ago, she had no idea Los Angeles...
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4.9KMore 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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831Rally 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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1.6KMothers 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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1.6KCuts 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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1.7KThank 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...
