Join Juvenile Law Center in Celebrating #GivingTuesday 2014

Juvenile Law Center,

As its name suggests, Giving Tuesday is an international philanthropic phenomenon encouraging people to give back to the individuals and organizations who make a difference in the world. Since 2012, Giving Tuesday has been a force for good across digital and social media platforms—using the hastag #GivingTuesday, users can support and spread the word about their favorite organizations.

This year, Juvenile Law Center is participating in the Giving Tuesday movement on Twitter and Facebook. Help us spread the word by using #GivingTuesday and tagging us on Twitter (@JuvLaw1975) and Facebook (Juvenile Law Center).

Since 1975, Juvenile Law Center has been advocating for the rights of youth. For four decades, we’ve positioned ourself as a national leader, using the law to improve foster care and justice for children. We work hard to promote policy changes throughout the country that will better protect the life and future of these youth, and we encourage young people to tell their stories as part of their own advocacy work.

Recently, Juvenile Law Center has been in the news for a variety of accomplishments:

 

  • Senators Cory Booker and Rand Paul used our work on juvenile record expungement to inform the Record Expungement Designed to Enhance Employment (REDEEM) Act. This bi-partisan legislation seeks promote record sealing and expungement, as well as reducing solitary confinement and transfer to criminal court.
  • This November, we released two important reports as part of our Second Chances Project. These reports illustrate how individuals with juvenile justice records are often impeded from reaching their full potential when these records are easily available for public consumption. Our national review looks at state laws currently in place regarding these records; our scorecards rate states based on their current legislative practices.
  • This past May, we hosted a convening with the Jim Casey Youth Opportunity Initiative on issues facing young adults in the child welfare system. Juvenile Law Center invited three dozen colleagues from across the country to devise strategies for improving opportunities for foster youth who turn 18. The convening led us to develop six blueprints for reform addressing how children’s lawyers can push state and federal agencies to make the transition to adulthood easier for older foster youth.

 

We hope that this Giving Tuesday, you will join us in partnership to accomplish this important work.