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My message to all foster youth: Voting isn’t just a mundane adult task — it’s our power to shape the world, writes Lonnell Schuler. The Imprint is an independent, nonprofit daily news publication dedicated to covering child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health and educational issues faced by vulnerable children and families.
Liz Ryan on the Landmark Law That Keeps Kids Out of Adult Jails
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention hands out $65 million dollars a year to states to achieve these federal standards. Liz Ryan is the top administrator, heading an organization that serves as the point of contact for hundreds of local juvenile justice systems across U.S. states and territories.
Youth Share Firsthand Accounts of Life in Group Homes
Oct 4, 2024 · The new report expands on an earlier version released in 2018 that focused solely on juvenile justice facilities. The recent installment adds insight into facilities for foster youth and concerns about discrimination based on race, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity.. The Department of Human Services, which oversees the facilities highlighted in …
First-ever Oral Histories of Indian Boarding School Survivors
Oct 11, 2024 · The first-of-its-kind oral history project, underway since March, receives and archives these memories. Three historians and a team of an additional 10 to 12 people have so far visited Indigenous communities in Oklahoma, Alaska, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana and Michigan, and will continue their work through 2026.
The Nation’s First Family Separation Policy - The Imprint
Oct 9, 2018 · In the late 1960s, while employed by the Association on American Indian Affairs (AAIA), a New York-based attorney named Bertram Hirsch was sent to North Dakota to assist with a kinship dispute case on behalf of the Spirit Lake Tribe. Child welfare workers were forcibly removing children from family members and placing them in white homes, sometimes out of state.
Foster Care Archives - The Imprint
Nov 1, 2024 · A rare data set obtained by The Imprint reveals the state has struggled to diversify its pool of foster parents — years after criticism from federal officials. Texas is tracking the use of trash bags when youth in its foster care system are removed from home or change placements. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
Regina Louise's Tale of Searching for Permanency is Ready for …
Apr 12, 2019 · Story of My Life: Regina Louise’s Tale of Searching for Permanency is Ready for Primetime. By Kim Phagan-Hansel. Author Regina Louise’s story of her foster care journey is being made into a Lifetime movie premiering April 20 at 8 p.m. EST. Photo courtesy of Regina Louise. The new film “I Am Somebody’s Child: The Regina Louise Story ...
About - The Imprint
The Imprint is an independent daily news outlet focused on the nation’s child welfare and youth justice systems. Since 2013, Imprint reporters have produced rigorous, in-depth reporting on the courts that process these children, youth and families; the agencies paid to serve them; and the housing, economic, mental health and educational issues they face.
A Complete Guide to The Family First Act - The Imprint
The Family First Act is aimed at amending the IV-E entitlement to provide more federal resources to help families in crisis stay together, and limit federal funds for putting foster youth into congregate care placements, including group homes. The law includes several other child welfare-related updates to federal policy. So what is actually in ...
Bob Schwartz, Founder of Juvenile Law Center, Has Passed Away
Oct 11, 2024 · Bob Schwartz, the charismatic and renowned figure in youth justice reform who co-founded the Philadelphia-based Juvenile Law Center and served as its executive director for 33 years, has died at the age of 75 after a prolonged bout with cancer. Schwartz started the center, one of the nation’s first public interest law firms focused on ...