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Suspended multiple times as a student, Juan Peña now fights to keep kids in class. As an organizer for Los Angeles advocacy group Youth Justice Coalition, he’s supporting legislation that would ban willful defiance suspensions in schools statewide. Critics have …
The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) came about because the federal government and states had a long history of treating Native American* parents as unfit just by their being Indian.
When James Manley came to rural Lake County, Montana, as a district judge in 2013, he knew the meth problem was bad, but he didn’t know how much worse it would get.
The rate of drug-exposed newborns is spiking across New Mexico, as are entries into the foster care system. Is there a link? While being examined by a gynecologist, a pregnant Doralee Urban did her utmost to keep calm and hide …
As President Donald Trump moves to expand deportations of undocumented immigrants, a team of rapid-response social workers in Los Angeles is hoping it can come to the aid of children who may be left behind or endangered by immigration enforcement actions. …
In my life so far, I’ve heard a lot of promises; some are executed, but most of them do not reach fulfillment. It seems as if we live in a world of broken promises, and not with the negative connotation that …
Employment outcomes for youth transitioning out of foster care are less than hopeful, but the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is looking to a new pilot program to change that. A California study found former foster youth to be …
The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the …
Youth Services Insider cannot recall a stranger narrative turn than the recent one involving missing children (particularly girls) in Washington, D.C. A public outcry began when, all of a sudden, reports of missing girls began to pop up on the social …
If you were to question 100 successful people who chose a rewarding career that lasted them their entire working lives what it was about their job that kept them at it for so long, a majority of the responses would …
