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Caught in the Middle: Children of Incarcerated Parents and the Intersection...
When a mother goes to jail, the impact on her family can be devastating. Most moms are the primary caretakers for their children at the time of their arrest, and the sudden absence of a mother leaves...
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Mentoring Can Set Foster Youth on a Path Toward Success
"My future is to have a happy family, have a career, be something in life, be a role model, and teach people the right thing." These are the aspirations of one ninth grade foster youth at the Arise...
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Dismantling the Cradle to Prison Pipeline
The Children's Defense Fund released the State of America's Children 2012 Handbook last month, an annual compilation of national data on child well-being, as well as its Portrait of Inequality which...
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Data-Driven Public Policy Reforms
Every day in Pennsylvania, child welfare professionals gather and assess information to make critical decisions about the commonwealth’s youngest citizens. Shouldn’t we similarly expect policymakers,...
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Legal Loopholes Lead to Abused Children Falling Through the Cracks
As a nation, our laws are generally very thorough and comprehensive. Anyone who has ever tried to file taxes on their own knows this all too well. Our laws are particularly comprehensive when it...
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Pennsylvania's Youth Courts Do More than Restorative Justice
Beginning last winter, I was assisted by several volunteers: lawyers, social workers, law students and an eighth grade teacher, as we struggled against great odds to teach 25-30 eighth graders to...
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No blame, only solutions
The Philadelphia Inquirer published a heartbreaking story today about the death of Khalil Wimes.The article, titled 'How city agencies failed to save 6-year-old Khalil", provides a haunting...
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The Lives of Children with Undocumented Families in Foster Care
No matter what your opinion may be regarding the topic of illegal immigration in the United States, one thing is true: children are suffering. The article 'Undocumented Immigrants Losing Fight to Keep...
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These Are All Our Children
This week the latest national data on children in foster care and their educational outcomes was released. Though it is hopeful to see a little reduction in the absolute number of youth living in...
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Gold Nuggets: Communicating the Value of Data in Child Advocacy
Today Cindy’s alarm went off at 5am, and it was still dark outside her window. She doesn’t work until 9:00 am but she had to go to a home visit on the other side of the city. Exhausted from being up...
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