Chronicle Of Social Change Archive
Although today I am an attorney and a proud leader in an executive role at First Place for Youth, at 18 years old, I was struggling. I didn’t have a relationship with my parents for a time. I also had …
Advocates claim that raising the minimum wage would lift many families out of poverty and reduce income equality, but a new study contends that a rise in wages would also reduce child maltreatment. According to a study from University of …
Yesterday, Youth Services Insider broke down some of the substantive differences between the House and Senate bills to reauthorize the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA). The JJDPA has not been reauthorized since 2002, and it’s ten years overdue …
As “back to school” sales hit stores across the country, many youth in foster care are facing the anxiety and uncertainty of starting “yet another” new school — a reality many will face throughout the school year as they move …
While the child sex trafficking narrative is often focused on the most vulnerable — foster youth, homeless kids and runaways — technology is making it easier than ever for traffickers to locate and communicate with any child who has access …
Donna Pollard entered a Massachusetts mental health facility at the age of 14. Two years later, she was married to a 31-year-old man who had been one of her counselors at the facility. Her mother consented to the marriage, and …
California is moving forward with a pair of initiatives designed to increase its supply of foster parents, while grappling with sweeping reforms to its foster care system. A big part of that effort is a bill now under consideration in …
A former foster youth has created an innovative tool for professionals in the child welfare system through his online course, Fostering Resilience. Michael Place, now an international public speaker and child rights activist, recently launched Fostering Resilience to help professionals …
On Wednesday, former FBI Director James Comey was named Howard University’s King Endowed Chair in Public Policy. In this new role, Comey will be delivering the Opening Convocation Keynote address as well as leading a series of five lectures at …
On a recent Tuesday in a brightly lit classroom in the San Francisco Bay Area, a roomful of students began a six-month computer skills course designed to change their lives. Referred by shelters for survivors of commercial sexual exploitation in …
