More Data Needed on New Group ‘Emerging Adults’
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This age interval is the final stage in the continuum of brain development that creates mature adults — those with aspirations, plans and possibilities and who are engaged in society.
Like Our Vets, Justice-Involved Youth Are Survivors of War
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By the time youth first enter the justice system, the vast majority of them have witnessed and/or have been victim to some type of violence and are struggling to cope with the fallout of those experiences.
Hard-at-work Mom Takes No Breaks, Chances During Summer Vacation
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I’m on a mission to make sure my two kids have a competitive advantage — and fun. They won’t be too overscheduled, but they will definitely not be idle on the couch.
I’m Proof Kids Don’t Need Extreme Sentences to Pay Debt
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By the time I was 12, I had been kicked out of two schools because of my violent outbursts. No one ever tried to find out why I was violent.
‘Love Became a Weakness and Violence Equaled Respect’
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Who am I? I am but only one of thousands of people who was a child prosecuted as an adult — then sentenced to rot inside a living tomb until I die.
My name is Tony Farrell, and I am fighting for my life.
Finally, a Movie About Teens of Color I Want to Take My Son to See
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Through comedic hijinks and some explicit visuals of drugs, guns and a scantily clad woman, “Dope” opens the eyes of viewers to the challenging lives many of our urban youths experience while trying desperately not to get trapped in a waterfall of stereotypes and statistics.
Schools, Like Courts, Turning Away From Sledgehammer Responses
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We fling sledgehammers in the form of zero tolerance. We use suspensions, expulsions and arrests to rid our schools of disruptive students. When did making adults mad become a crime?
Let Kalief Browder’s Death Lead to Reform for Other Young People
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The recent suicide of Kalief Browder, a one-time inmate held in the adolescent jail on notorious Rikers Island, is a wake-up call to stop treating youth in our justice system as if they were adults.
What Interventions Are Critical for Foster Children in Gen K?
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Economist and author Noreena Hertz created the name from that generation’s “Hunger Games” icon, Katniss Everdeen, after surveying 1,000 British and American girls.
OP-ED: Justice Foiled by Ignorance of Trauma
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I can attempt to salve my conscience because I did not know about brain development or trauma-informed practice. But it doesn’t work — acknowledging my ignorance and failures of the justice system cannot repair the harm done.