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 people in the group aged out without being connected to family and they had a lot to say about what could have been done to help them find family, including their own relatives and kin.
Marcía Hopkins, MSW, Dominique Mikell, AM, and Jenny Pokempner, JD, University of Minnesota Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare •
Ensuring that children and youth have permanency is one of the core duties of the child welfare system and is vital for the healthy development of the children in their care. While providing permanency is a legal mandate for all children, it is pursued with less urgency, creativity, and resources as youth age, and as a result, young people suffer real harm.
Juvenile Law Center announced Wednesday the appointment of four new members to the Board of Directors. Khaliah Ali, Daniel Okonkwo, Robert Parker and Eli Segal will join the governing body of the national organization, based in Philadelphia. The center is the country’s first nonprofit public interest law firm for children’s rights.
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.
Something as intimate—and potentially invasive—as creating policies that dictate which familial connections are protected and upheld requires a recognition that we all have family. Whether
Juvenile Law Center and many of our partner agencies from the Delivery of Legal Services Committee have been actively involved in a variety of long-term
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 know of that advocates on behalf of kids. There have been insurmountable issues before them which they have routinely overcome and there have been 1000’s of kids who have better lives because of their work.
A Seminole County jail deputy was fired last month after his supervisors found he repeatedly did not complete mandatory checks on detained juveniles — as required by state law — and then lied about it, according to an internal investigation.
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