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1/12/2022
J. Iñiguez
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, more transgender people have been killed than ever before, writes J. Iñiguez.
6/2/2021
Opinion
David Roush
Racial and ethnic disparities in juvenile detention are not unique to Cook County, but data validate the need for new approaches.
2/2/2021
Jeremy Loudenback
Trainer Casswell Goodman uses humor to engage foster youth at a iFoster class at Los Angeles Trade Tech College in 2018. Photo by Astor MorganOne of the nation’s most promising programs linking current and former foster youth with employment started its work in a Placer County supermarket.
1/28/2021
The Imprint staff reports
The University of Chicago’s social services school received a massive gift from the family of James and Paula Crown. Photo courtesy of University of Chicago The University of Chicago’s school of social work has just received the promise of a “landmark” $75 million gift, the largest ever offered to an American school of social work, the university announced Wednesday.
4/14/2020
Jarvell Williams
As with many former foster youth, my life has seen its share of broken promises. Promises that as a child I had faith that adults held the power to keep. Birthday promises, Christmas gift promises, trips to Chuck E.
2/27/2020
John Kelly
The full results won’t be in until next year on Choose 2 Change (C2C), a youth violence prevention effort in Chicago. But the city likes what it’s seen so far, and is expanding the reach a model that could well gain traction in other urban areas.
3/14/2019
Last week, Chronicle of Social Change reporter Michael Fitzgerald reported on a tragic case out of New York City where a disabled teen was kept in an emergency shelter – with ill-fitting clothes and a broken wheelchair – for more than a year, even though a family friend had stepped up to take care of him.
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6/14/2018
As the Los Angeles County Probation Department dismantles a controversial shadow probation program in schools, some county education officials worry that they will be left with fewer resources to work with young people who misbehave at school.
10/10/2016
Guest Writer
He had a vision for life. It was all pasted up on his “vision board” – words like family, opportunities, genius, world’s greatest, climbing the corporate ladder, starts with a single step.
1/27/2015
Amy C. Harfeld
In Chicago, two girls were trapped in abusive foster homes for years because of a clerical error. In New Mexico’s Bernalillo County, 53 child abuse and neglect cases were reported within a 58-day period, with the county on track to double the previous year’s child abuse caseload.
