Juvenile Law Center

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Juvenile and Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania and MacArthur's Models for Change
The Story of a Successful Public-Private Partnership

Highlights some of the ways that Pennsylvania's state advisory group combined people, vision and dollars with those of Models for Change to improve Pennsylvania's juvenile justice system.

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Juvenile and Criminal Justice|Education
Recommendations to Improve Correctional and Reentry Education for Young People

Federal policy recommendations to the Departments of Education, Justice and Labor on how to provide access to quality education and career/technical training for young people in the correctional system in order to improve their educational opportunities, reduce recidivism, and improve lives.  

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Child Welfare
Teen Success Agreement

A youth-developed, written agreement for older youth, caregivers, and social workers to provide older youth in foster care with age-appropriate activities and opportunities.

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Child Welfare|Education
Meeting the Educational Needs of Students in the Child Welfare System
Tools for Educators, School Administrators and Counseling Staff

Set of tools to help educators and administrators understand the issues youth in the foster care system face, and to identify simple interventions that can make a difference helping youth in care succeed in school. 

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Child Welfare
Maximizing "Fostering Connections" to Benefit Pennsylvania Youth

Outlines benefits that will be realized by acting on Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett's budget proposal to fully implement the federal Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008, which provides states with incentives to improve outcomes for foster youth and promote adoption and legal guardianship.

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Juvenile and Criminal Justice
Protecting Youth in the Prison Rape Elimination Act National Standards

Public comments from youth advocates on proposed standards for the implementation of the National Prison Rape Elimination Act.

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Juvenile and Criminal Justice
Navigating the Juvenile Justice System in Pennsylvania
A Guide for Parents and Guardians

Guide to help parents and guardians better understand the juvenile justice process. 

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Juvenile and Criminal Justice|Education
Federal Policy, ESEA Reauthorization, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Urges greater attention to the "school-to-prison pipeline" crisis and suggests how it should be addressed in federal policy.

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Juvenile and Criminal Justice
Lessons from Luzerne County: Promoting Fairness, Transparency and Accountability
Recommendations to the Interbranch Commission on Juvenile Justice

Recommendations from Juvenile Law Center for legislators to address broad reform goals within the juvenile justice system in the wake of the Luzerne County "kids-for-cash" scandal.

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Child Welfare
Assessing the Quality of Child Advocacy in Dependency Proceedings in Pennsylvania

Shows that while legal representation of children in the child welfare system has seen improvement in recent years due to the enactment of Act 18, more work is needed for child legal advocates to be in compliance with state law.

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