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2020 Leadership Prize Winner, Sherry Lachman, on a Personal Connection to Child Welfare

Sherry Lachman, Founder and Executive Director of Foster America,

Over the past 14 years, I have worked to improve government systems for vulnerable children and families. This work is personal to me because I

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Strategies for Promoting Kinship Bonds for Older Youth—Recommendations from Young People

Jennifer K. Pokempner, Esq. ,

In 2019, one of Juvenile Law Center’s Youth Advocacy programs, Youth Fostering Change, chose as their policy project older youth permanency. Many of the young

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Family Preservation Matters: Why Kinship Care for Black Families, Native American Families, and Other Families of Color is Critical to Preserve Culture and Restore Family Bonds

Marcía Hopkins, MSW, Senior Manager, Youth Advocacy Program & Policy,

Valuing and pursuing kinship care arrangements promotes racial equity and is essential to ensuring permanency for children and youth and their communities.

Kinship care must

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2020 Leadership Prize Winner, Stephen K. Harper, on Need for Juvenile Justice Reform

Stephen K. Harper,

I am humbled to have received the Leadership Prize from Juvenile Law Center. Juvenile Law Center is one of the oldest and most effective organizations I

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Why High-Quality Interdisciplinary Legal Representation for Parents is Essential to Keeping Kids with Family

Kathleen Creamer, Managing Attorney and April Lee, Peer Parent Advocate with Community Legal Services of Philadelphia,

We embark on this Kinship Month at a time of reckoning. Both the COVID crisis and the cries for racial justice have forced us to

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Urgent Action Alert to Protect Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Youth

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has proposed a new rule which removes protections for transgender and gender non-conforming people, deeply impacting young people

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Investing in Youth and Families: The Importance of Family Bonds and Kinship Care

Kathleen Creamer, Managing Attorney, Family Advocacy Unit, Community Legal Services of Philadelphia; Rachael M. Miller, Policy Director, Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children; and Jenny Pokempner, Senior Attorney, Juvenile Law Center,

A Blog Series for National Kinship Care Month: First Installment

September is National Kinship Care Month. This blog series highlights the great importance of valuing