What's on our radar this week
Every Wednesday, Juvenile Law Center gathers the latest studies, reports, and headlines from around the country. Here's what we've been reading:
- Today marks the 25th anniversary of the day U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child was entered into force, but the United States is the only country that hasn't ratified the treaty. Why?
- Structured support is critical for foster youth in college, especially for students who aged out of care. Fostering Success Michigan's National Postsecondary Support Map gathers information on state tuition waivers, education support programs, and 4 year campus-based programs for foster youth in college.
- Diversion programs in Brooklyn and Madison, WI, help keep youth with first-time and/or low-level offenses out of the juvenile justice system.
- Some are still asking: should Baltimore proceed with plans to build a new $30 million jail for youth charged as adults?
- Studying the teenage brain - how and when different regions develop - reveals critical insights into teen behavior and decision-making.
- There's some bipartisan support for changing the country's foster care system to focus on preventing children from entering the child welfar system by providing treatment, therapy, and other services to a child's parents.
- Ten years ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. As the city still struggles to rebuild, it's also fighting against similarly disastrous failures in education, in juvenile and criminal justice, in housing and healthcare, and so many other arenas that affect daily life of the majority of New Orlean's residents.
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