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Yesterday, Juvenile Law Center’s Child Welfare Policy Director Jennifer Pokempner testified before Philadelphia City Council’s Committee on Housing, Neighborhood Development and the Homeless on Councilwoman’s Blackwell’s Resolution 170027 to investigate ways the city can prevent homeless through new models.

Only 45 percent of women are reported to hold executive positions. To that statistic, we’d like to point the sector as a whole to Philly’s legal

Gullen and CLS also partnered with the Juvenile Law Center on a project that aims to protect juvenile records.

As we recently reported, Juvenile

That’s why staffers at the Juvenile Law Center are building a web app that maps out where those resources can be found in Philadelphia. The

Juvenile Law Center’s work on costs, fines and fees for youth in the juvenile justice system and their families featured in national news; Philadelphia changes citywide policy on “child support” fine collection.

Marsha Levick, deputy director and chief counsel of the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia, said it is not an overstatement to say Graham’s case was