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Youth Today
Foster youth sometimes get the chance to respond to lawmakers' child welfare agendas. They may be invited to testify at a hearing or to stand onstage at a press conference. But they don't often set the policy agenda. A group of current and former foster youth wants to change that dynamic.

Harvard Gazette
A new report, published by Harvard Kennedy School’s Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management (PCJ) and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), documents ineffectiveness, endemic abuses, and high costs in youth prisons throughout the country. The report systematically reviews recent research in developmental psychology and widespread reports of abuse to conclude that the youth prison model should be replaced with a continuum of community-based programs and, for the few youth who require secure confinement, smaller homelike facilities that prioritize age-appropriate rehabilitation.

NCCP
This policy brief from the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) overviews the needs of young people in and aging out of foster care, describes the coverage provided to former foster youth under the ACA, discusses the major reason for opposition to the coverage, makes recommendations to prevent barriers to access and highlights the need to ensure that young people know how to use their health care coverage.

JJIE
Lawful but awful. This is the phrase that is now commonly used to describe the deadly shootings committed by the police against people of color. From week to week, quite often day to day, there rises another egregious incident involving law enforcement, a person of color and an unnecessary lethal use of force that often reduces his or her life into another mournful statistic.

The Atlantic
Without access to counseling in high school, many ambitious yet disadvantaged students still end up in schools where they’re most likely to drop out and accrue lots of debt.

University of Kansas
University of Kansas researchers have received a grant to determine how economic and social safety net policies affect child neglect across the United States and create a tool policy makers and practitioners can use to predict how proposed prevention strategies can address child abuse and neglect.

Rosa Gonzalez, BA, JD, CWLS

Rosie received the Adele Advocate for the Poor Award, has been inducted into the Order of Barristers, and is a recipient of the Presidential National Leadership Award. She is a past Commissioner on the Hispanic National Bar Association’s Commission on the Status of Latinas in the Legal Profession and is a board certified attorney/specialist in the area of Child Welfare Law by the National Association of Counsel for Children. Rosie's NACC profile can be viewed here.

Welcome to our newest Silver Members! Alex Hunt of Hunt Law Firm, P.L.L.C. in Katy, TX, and and Curtis Nelson, Assistant District Attorney in Baton Rouge, LA

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