New America Media
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Young People Reveal Holes in the Foster Care Safety Net
Reforms to the foster system have gone into effect in California - Assembly Bill 12 now lets youth stay in foster care until age 21.Black Lives Matter and the Freddie Gray Effect
Almost a year later, as the trial for the second police officer charged with Freddie Gray’s murder is set to begin, the country continues to be plagued with the challenges of egregious police shootings, broken trust between law enforcement and Black communities, and the related gross income inequality that many feel fuels the mistreatment by officers.Making Juvenile Hall the Mental Health Provider of Last – Not First – Resort
As many as 70 percent of the kids in California’s juvenile detention centers are in need of mental health care, and most of them are not getting it.Finally, Good News on the School to Prison Pipeline
Just like school suspensions can lead to youth detention, reducing suspensions can have the opposite effect.Green 2.0 Reports Lack of Transparency about Diversity by Major Environmental Funders
For Immediate Release: November 9, 2015
Contact: Erika West, [email protected], (202) 930-6808
WASHINGTON, DC—Green 2.0 announced that one year from their initial call for transparent diversity data – and months after the Presidents of the Bullitt, Ford, Hewlett, Kresge, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and Wilburforce Foundations jointly echoed the need for data sharing by environmental funders – a majority of the 40 biggest funders of environmental work declined to share diversity data on their GuideStar profiles...