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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.

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.

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

In the last few years Philadelphia has seen an increase in the numbers of homeless youth. We aren’t alone—this increase is happening in cities nationwide

Through her research, Dominique Mikell (pronounced like “Michael”), a Stoneleigh Foundation Emerging Leader Fellow at the Juvenile Law Center, is working to bridge that gap

In a motion for a temporary injunction, the ACLU of Wisconsin also asks the federal court to “eliminate the routine use of mechanical restraints, including