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Youth leaving foster care lack traditional family resources to help them apply for public benefits, school, or even a job. A new web app unveiled

Inside the fight over the fate of juveniles in prison for murder, following a landmark Supreme Court ruling.

To kick off National Foster Care Month today, Juvenile Law Center and University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice unveiled Youth Matters: Philly – an innovative app created with Penn computer science students Rani Iyer, Zhiyu Meng, and Ben Sandler. The app is targeted towards youth in foster care or experiencing homelessness in Philadelphia, and helps them to connect with vital resources and programs easily and quickly.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said, “We have a crime problem ... this is a dangerous, permanent trend that places the health and safety of the

Today The Legal Center for Youth Justice and Education (LCYJE) – a national collaboration of Southern Poverty Law Center, Juvenile Law Center, Educational Law Center-PA, and the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law unveiled the website Blueprint for Change: Education Success for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System.