What's on our radar this week
Each week, Juvenile Law Center gathers the latest studies, reports, and headlines from around the country. Here's what we've been reading:
- This week the Campaign for Youth Justice, an organization that advocates against the transfer of juveniles to adult courts, will celebrate its 10th anniversary.
- Kansas lawmakers have approved an overhaul of the state's juvenile justice system. The proposal will allow children who commit minor crimes to avoid time in detention centers.
- In 2013, Georgia began an ongoing juvenile justice reform effort that has decreased the state's incarcerated youth population. Moving forward the state is considering reallocating budget's to focus on community programs rather than juvenile detention.
- The federal government is giving Philadelphia $28 million for programs to help homeless residents. Part of this grant will specifically go to both helping and tracking homeless youth.
- Faculty at Harvard's Graduate School of Education are launching By All Means - a national program that will help schools in six cities across the country deal with specific local challenges that hinder children's success.
- In South Carolina, Governor Haley is working to launch a new initiative called Champions for Children. The program will focus on recruiting foster care families and promoting foster care reform.
- Recent studies have revealed that juveniles in Maryland detention centers are routinely strip-searched and shackled. As a result, Maryland lawmakers are calling for an "immediate" end to these practices.
- Over the last two years in Arizona the number of African-American children in foster care has risen 10%.
- Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago is launching a new program called Voices of Youth Count. The program is part of a national effort aimed at ending youth homelessness.
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