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Youth Services Insider

5/10/2021

Study: Juvenile Incarceration Produces Mixed Results on Recidivism, Graduation Rates

The Imprint staff reports

Madera County Juvenile Detention Center. Photo courtesy of Madera County Probation

Harsh sentences for juvenile crimes don’t make it less likely that a person will be convicted of a violent crime when they grow into adults, according to a new study in which academic economists looked at data from Louisiana. 

5/9/2021

Comfort the Troubled, and Trouble the Comforted

Opinion

Vivek Sankaran

My law students entered my virtual office dejected. Their teenage client had been accused of assault. As a result, he needed to change foster care placements, again.

His mental health needs were not being addressed by the child welfare agency.

5/9/2021

Youth-Led Group Builds Tiny Home Village to Fight California’s Homelessness Crisis

Sara Tiano

The art-drenched village for 18-23 year olds features 26 tiny homes and two large yurts that serve as a communal living room and kitchen.

5/9/2021

Michigan Senate Bill Would Require More People to Report Underage Sexual Abuse

The Imprint staff reports

5/7/2021

Mother’s Day Celebration Outside L.A. County Jail Sends Hope to Women Inside

Jeremy Loudenback

Angelique Evans of the Young Women’s Freedom addresses the crowd on Friday. Photo: Jeremy Loudenback

Dozens of women wearing T-shirts emblazoned with “Free Black Mamas” logos and shouting “Happy Mother’s Day” circled a Los Angeles County women’s jail in cars Friday, a public demonstration calling attention to the struggles of incarcerated mothers and their efforts to reunify with children placed in foster care. 

Youth Services Insider

5/6/2021

New Research Funded on Mental Health, Child Welfare

The Imprint staff reports

The William T. Grant Foundation has announced this year’s scholarship winners for promising early-career researchers working on methods to improve the lives of young people who have experienced poverty and other forms of hardship.

colorful drawing of two sad people leaving a house that is crossed out

5/6/2021

Resuming Evictions Could Land Kids in Foster Care, Experts Say

Sara Tiano

A federal judge in Washington has struck down a national policy that prevented countless evictions during the coronavirus pandemic – a move that advocates worry could push vulnerable families and youth into homelessness, and potentially into the foster care system as well.

5/6/2021

Albany Must Give Young New Yorkers A Right to Counsel Before Police Interrogations

Opinion

Jamaal Bailey, Latoya Joyner and Dawne Mitchell

Last fall, in a cramped interrogation room, a NYPD detective read a 17-year-old his Miranda rights and asked whether he was willing to answer questions. Sitting next to the boy was his mother.

5/6/2021

Six New Laws Add to Georgia’s Efforts to Boost Adoption

The Imprint staff reports

Six new bills signed into law in Georgia this week are intended to accelerate the state’s ongoing efforts to make adoption easier.
Youth Services Insider

5/4/2021

New Vice President Named at Children’s Defense Fund

The Imprint staff reports

The Children’s Defense Fund, a major U.S. child advocacy organization, has a new vice president in charge of strategy and program.

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