Advocacy organizations Juvenile Law Center, SchoolHouse Connection and National Network for Youth strongly support the introduction in Congress yesterday of two bills that would significantly improve the chances for higher education success for youth experiencing homelessness and youth who have been in the foster care system.
Yesterday, two bills were introduced in Congress to help homeless and foster youth transition successfully to higher education and receive the financial aid and other supports they need to complete their degrees.
Each year our youth advocates in Youth Fostering Change and Juveniles for Justice do amazing work focused on one reform issue, and this year was no different. We’re so excited to share this video featuring YFC’s final project and policy recommendations to empower youth in dependency court hearings.
Elisa Egonu, Legal Intern, and Karen U. Lindell, Staff Attorney,
As any high schooler can tell you, finding paid work experiences in today’s economy can be a real challenge. But youth with disabilities in the juvenile justice and foster care systems face a particularly difficult road.
A new report from the Juvenile Law Center, a legal advocacy organization in Philadelphia, shows that solitary confinement for children is still common, even in
U.S. District Judge James Peterson in June found that inmates' civil rights were likely being violated and ordered changes to how the prison complex operates
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