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WEBThe Imprint highlighted each of the policy recommendations made this summer by the participants of the Foster Youth Internship Program, a group of seven young people that experienced foster care and have completed congressional internships. Nell Bernstein reports on how California’s youth prisons got shut down, and what comes next as county ...
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APPLA: The Foster Care Exception That Ate the Rule
WEBAug 15, 2013 · Earlier this week, Youth Services Insider shared a few of the ideas contained in “Our Voice, Their Future,” a set of recommendations for child welfare reform authored by adoptees and former foster youths. One of those recommendations, from Chris Hehn, was to eliminate “Another Planned Permanent Living Arrangement,” a plan for youths in care that, on paper, is allowable only in the rare ...
When Trauma Slips into Addiction - The Imprint
WEBDec 17, 2018 · When stress becomes unbearable, overwhelming and frightening, it often leads to addiction. Given the strong correlation between addiction and trauma, it is essential that programs have a more comprehensive process to offer the clients they serve. Trauma and addiction need to be treated as co-occurring and interrelated.
It’s Time to Stop Confusing Poverty With Neglect - The Imprint
WEBJan 17, 2020 · Yet, as a field, we seem quite comfortable with very small, incremental improvements and minor tweaks to the way we operate — tweaks that often benefit the operators more than those living the experience; tweaks that may not result in noticeable improvements in the way children, youth and parents experience the system at all; and tweaks that are not likely to mitigate the need to enter the ...
DOJ Freezes Funding for National Child Advocates Group - The …
WEBFor exclusive Youth Services Insider content. Your support allows The Imprint to provide independent, nonpartisan daily news covering the issues faced by vulnerable children and families. Donate or Subscribe. The stepped-up oversight has resulted in staff furloughs at the 39-year-old National CASA/GAL Association for Children.
In Surprise, Newsom Calls for an End to California's Youth Prison …
WEBWith coronavirus pummeling Californians’ health and economy like a modern day plague, few expected a line item buried in an otherwise deficit-driven budget that Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Thursday: After decades of the state running what was once the country’s most vast and notorious youth prison system, the end could be near for the Division of Juvenile Justice.
Northern California Siblings Receive Foster Care Abuse Trial Award ...
WEBDec 7, 2023 · A jury in Northern California has awarded nearly $25 million to three siblings who were sexually abused by a foster parent, compensation that attorneys for the children describe as some measure of accountability for the assaults they suffered.
Olivia Golden to Leave Center for Law and Social Policy
WEBJul 21, 2021 · Olivia Golden, who has run the poverty-fighting Center for Law and Social Policy since 2013, is stepping down early next year. The 52-year-old organization, based in Washington, D.C., praised Golden’s leadership in advocating for strategies and public policies that seek to improve the lives of low-income people, especially people of color.
Youth Incarceration Plummeted in N.Y. Race Disproportionality …
WEBArrests of those younger than age 16 fell statewide by almost 70% from 2010 to 2018, as did the number of arrests of those under 18 outside of New York City in roughly the same period. A national government survey of self reports over the past two to three decades shows steady declines of young people carrying a weapon, getting involved in violence or using illegal drugs.