Christian Picciolini, 14, was hanging out one day in an alley near the intersection of Union and Division streets in Chicago. An older...
RUSSIAN FEDERATION/SHUTTERSTOCK What do you do if you find racist graffiti on a wall near your school or youth program? Or come...
Nora Flanagan’s first brush with hate group recruiting took place when she was 15 and living in Beverly, a southwest Chicago neighborhood....
The Sentencing Project releases a new report discussing how stark racial disparities in the juvenile justice system remain relatively unchanged even as...
While awareness of sex trafficking has grown, too little attention is given to how this terrible violence impacts girls of color. In...
Researchers at the Urban Institute discuss the stark racial disparities in digital skill levels of youth ages 16-24.
The #SayHerName movement that was launched in 2014 by the African American Policy Forum and the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy...
The Trevor Project uses data collected from a national survey of over 2,500 Black LGBTQ youth to provide a comprehensive look at...
A new report analyzes racial and ethnic data at state-level youth justice agencies, documenting how inconsistent data categories and reporting result in...
Grantmakers for Girls of Color (G4GC) recently announced Maheen Kaleem as its new deputy director.
Sexual crimes are prevalent domestically and globally, and sex trafficking — people brokering other humans for sex — is no exception. Data...
The Trevor Project releases the second annual National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health.
This new report from Children's Rights details how the COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating already difficult situations for LGBTQ+ youth in care facilities...
Save the Children releases the first-ever comprehensive child welfare and development rankings of all U.S. counties.
Today, Synthia Roy works at a tattoo parlor in Jacksonville, Fla., she does set design and makeup for horror films and recently...
For decades, we have repeated and recapitulated: Our nation’s foster care system is broken. New Mexico, which receives the lowest markers of...
She’s credited with being a “visionary,” “a role model” and a literal life-saver for some of the most vulnerable girls and young...
“You just don’t get it! When I emancipate I don’t want to move away and go off to college. I’m going back...
The Trevor Project tracks rates of suicidality among LGB youth after turning 18, showing that the stark suicide disparity between straight and...
It’s nearing the close of normal business hours on a Wednesday afternoon at the Albuquerque, N.M., offices of the Children, Youth and...