JJIEnews Archive
We throw out a lot of food in this country. That surplus food could be considered undiscovered treasure instead of waste. Each day Americans throw away tons of nutritious food that could feed thousands of hungry people. According to the …
March 1, 2016 Giving Foster Youth a Chance at College By Elaine Korry Growing up in Los Angeles, in a family unsettled by addiction and dysfunction, Justin Turner, 18, was convinced from an early age that college was not for …
Federal Education Law Delivers Vital Protections for Foster Youth By Rachel Velcoff Hults and Kate Burdick | February 22, 2016 Children involved in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems face countless barriers to educational success. Our historic failure to …
White House Rolls Out Summer Opportunity Plan By Sarah Barr | February 26, 2016 WASHINGTON — The White House this week rolled out a multi-agency plan to help more teenagers land summer jobs. The plan aims to give youth who …
By Kayla Patrick We have a pressing discipline problem that begins in classrooms and for far too many children ends in prison. As I watched the video of the recent assault on a South Carolina student in her classroom, I …
Seven organizations will have a chance to further their efforts to help girls in the justice system thanks to more than $650,000 in funding from the National Girls Initiative. “These incredible projects show us that we can work together to …
The headlines and sound bites described behavior gone wrong — a teenager in a South Carolina classroom refusing to put away her cellphone and a police officer using physical force to respond to a nonthreatening situation. He arrested her for …
By Sarah Barr The American Friends Service Committee is the latest group to call for investors to move their money away from private prison companies, saying it’s unethical to profit from prisoners. As part of a new campaign, the AFSC …
By Sarah Barr The toolkit, developed by The National Crittenton Foundation, offers recommendations about the Adverse Childhood Experiences survey, including how to talk to children and parents about the survey, track results and use the data for public education and …
By Amy Linn It was the perfect campsite, a place where the five kids in the Jaeger family could skip stones in a drifting river and wake up to views of the Montana Rockies. Marietta Jaeger and her husband, their …
