This country has a long history of removing young people involved in the justice system or child welfare system from their communities and placing them in facilities far from home. Institutional placements are increasingly recognized as costly, damaging, and inhumane, and localities have successfully implemented alternatives.
Successful extended care systems provide more than additional years of care after youth would otherwise age out. We spoke with Nedhal, who is entering her second year with the B2I program and a Youth Fellow at Nebraska Appleseed.
The nation’s civil rights organizations, religious groups, and child welfare organizations are going to war over the Republican proposal to allow adoption agencies to discriminate against
According to Marsha Levick, deputy director and chief counsel for the non-profit public interest law firm Juvenile Law Center, there is less criminal stigma
Lysionek strongly believes that besides offering programs directed at foster youth, universities also need to identify some foster youth even before they get to college
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