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Juvenile Law Center is seeking a student to join our team and assist with writing abstracts/summaries for publications in our Resource Index, an in-house online collection of essays, journal articles, reports and studies, selected from many publication sources and assigned to one or more of over sixty subject areas. 

Interested in joining one of Juvenile Law Center's youth engagement programs, Juveniles for Justice or Youth Fostering Change? Here's your chance!

On August 7, State Policy Advocacy and Reform Center (SPARC) and the Annie E. Casey Foundation, together with the Legal Center for Foster Care and Education (a collaboration of the American Bar Association, Juvenile Law Center, and Education Law Center-PA), hosted a webinar on state implementation of the Uninterrupted Scholars Act. If you missed it, you can view the recording here. 

In late June-early July, my husband, Philadelphia Public Defender Tom Innes, and I traveled to Okinawa and Tokyo, Japan to teach trial advocacy, and lecture on both the American juvenile justice system and the "kids-for-cash" scandal in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.