Juvenile records follow youth well into adulthood and create barriers to employment and education. Protecting records is at the heart of the juvenile justice system’s aim to rehabilitate youth and yet, when unprotected, records punish youth indefinitely. In Future Interrupted, Juvenile Law Center urges that we allow children to grow up unfettered by their childhood mistakes—to have their court involvement remain in the past so they can move forward with their lives.
On September 29, 2014, President Obama signed the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (“SFA”) into law. The law includes important provisions for older youth in foster care. This issue brief outlines the provisions of the SFA relating to older youth and suggests how courts can effectively implement them.
We're partnering with the Support Center for Child Advocates to produce a webinar training series for child welfare and juvenile justice professionals! Youth with disabilities
We're partnering with the Support Center for Child Advocates to produce a webinar training series for child welfare and juvenile justice professionals! Youth with disabilities
This position paper addresses numerous questions about how the Higher Education Access and Success for Homeless and Foster Youth Act can help homeless and foster youth.
We're partnering with the Support Center for Child Advocates to produce a webinar training series for child welfare and juvenile justice professionals! Youth with disabilities
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