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California Offers Lessons in Expanding Foster Care 27 Aug 2013 | 05:44 pm
Maggie Lee / JJIE.org Sixteen states have enacted some sort of extended foster care, and three more have plans in the works, according to Christopher Wu, of the Center for Families, Children and the ...
Law Expert Lays out Legal Trends in Childrens’ Cases 27 Aug 2013 | 03:05 am
Maggie Lee / JJIE John E.B. Myers, a professor at the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law said the child welfare legal system “is full of faults, and you hear about it … but it works m...
Accused school shooter’s path marked by violence, mental illness 26 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Kadesta Malcom said she was very worried while waiting to be reunited with her daughter Tuesday, August 20, 2013, in DeKalb County, Georgia. Shots were fired at McNair Discovery Learning Academy. (Ben...
Youth Attorneys, Experts Arrive for Atlanta Summit 26 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
National Association of Counsel for Children ATLANTA — The National Association of Counsel for Children 36th National Child Welfare, Juvenile, and Family Law Conference opens this morning with remark...
[Photos] They Didn’t Believe Me 23 Aug 2013 | 10:53 pm
"My parents keep on turning me in here. They call the drug dogs. I told them I didn’t have anything at the house but they didn’t believe me. They may be afraid I am poisoning my little brother or sist...
More Data Should be Collected on LGBTQ Youth in Juvenile Detention, Advocates Argue 23 Aug 2013 | 08:51 pm
File photo by Clay Duda / JJIE.org Alyssa Rodriguez, a male-to-female transgender teen, sued New York’s Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) in 2006 over her treatment while in their custody...
OP-ED: Real Juvenile Justice Reform Needs More Than Just Good Ideas 23 Aug 2013 | 06:24 pm
Real change takes more than just ideas, it requires sustained and supported implementation of those ideas, and a willingness to make course corrections based on new data. It also requires that the ide...
The Art of Interrupting Deadly Youth Violence 21 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Clay Duda / JJIE SOS Outreach Workers (from left) Derick Scott, Achisimach “Chis” Yisrael, David Bookhart and Lavon Walker cruise the streets of Crown Heights looking to strike up a conversation. Bei...
OP-ED: The Adolescent Brain and Substance Abuse: Looking the Elephant In the Eye 21 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
drugfree.org Susan Broderick Having devoted my professional career to working in the justice systems, I have seen first-hand the dramatic impact drugs and alcohol have on offenders, victims and thei...
With Severe Budget Deficits, Florida DJJ May Be Forced to Close Several Facilities 19 Aug 2013 | 11:04 pm
Florida Department of Juvenile Justice / http://www.djj.state.fl.us/ Pasco Juvenile Detention Center in San Antonio, Fl. is one of several state-run detention facilities that could be closed due to b...
