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How Prevention Services Could Help Youth Avoid the Foster Care System

Nico'Lee Biddle, Teen Vogue • May 20, 2018

When I look back now on my family’s experiences, I realize that the child welfare system only saw our family’s trauma and hurt, our dysfunction

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Safe Home Philly—Quality Placements Close to Family, Community

Susan Vivian Mangold, The Legal Intelligencer • May 18, 2018

Juvenile Law Center works to bring young people in the child welfare and justice systems home from institutional placements, and to ensure that youth placed

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Kids in Placement Describe Abuse, Isolation and Lack of Education

Samantha Melamed, philly.com • May 17, 2018

“My mother thought going to a juvenile holding facility would be good for me,” she said. “She thought I would be safe. She didn’t realize I would be

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Education and Conditions in Juvenile Detention Remain Poor, Advocates Say

Avi Wolfman-Arent, WHYY • May 17, 2018

Youth Advocate Mayes’ testimony was among many chilling accounts delivered at Thursday’s council hearing, which focused on conditions at youth placement facilities.

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Should Children Who Commit A Crime Be Given A Second Chance or Die in Prison?

Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, nj.com • May 16, 2018

"We're witnessing a moment that is not so much a 180 degree change as it is a 360 degree circling back," Marsha Levick, Deputy