Models for Change recently released a new report titled, The Supreme Court and the Transformation of Juvenile Sentencing. This report explores the key issues surrounding the constitutional landscape of juvenile sentencing.
Juvenile Law Center has created this guide, Promoting Normalcy for Children and Youth in Foster Care, to help states embed the new “normalcy” requirements of the law into their own state law and regulation.
Our youth advocates also worked in collaboration with video production experts at Temple University's University Community Collaborative to create a video to raise awareness about the face of youth homelessness.
In Ten Strategies to Reduce Juvenile Length of Stay Juvenile Law Center draws from a 50 state review of state statutes, conversations with national stakeholders and decision-makers, and input from preeminent researchers and scholars in the field. The publication aims to start a deeper conversation about state policies – including agency policy, state statute, and regulations – that can address the problem of unnecessarily long stays in juvenile facilities.
Youth advocates in Juveniles for Justice, one of Juvenile Law Center's youth engagement programs, created a set of recommendations aimed at addressing systemic problems with educational services provided in the juvenile justice system.
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