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"Every time I went to a new group home, it was like: 'you're a girl; you have to have girl things,'" said Luke McNamara, 25, who recounts the abuse and humiliation he faced as a transgender youth growing up in the California foster care system.
Semaj Clark is a determined young man.
The Los Angeles teenager’s steadfastness helped him emerge from a childhood punctuated by a string of foster homes and arrests to become an ambassador to troubled youth.
Tens of thousands of juveniles have been arrested by school police in San Bernardino County, California over the last decade. The arrests were so numerous that they surpassed arrests of juveniles by municipal police in some of California’s biggest cities.
The state defied an Office of Open Records ruling and took the matter to court to conceal the names of doctors prescribing to kids confined in its six correctional facilities.
The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services insisted the physicians who care for and prescribe to the state’s most chronic or violent youth offenders would be endangered if their names were made public.
Pennsylvania is lagging when it comes to tracking the powerful psychiatric medications kids get in the state’s youth correctional facilities.
While other states have reformed the way they control and track such medications so that it is done systemwide, the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services follows only the total amount paid for the drugs prescribed in its six facilities on a systemic basis.
Thousands of at-risk kids lived in six state-operated youth development centers and forestry camps from 2007 through 2013. Within the razor wire — or dense tree lines in forestry camps — psychiatric medications are flowing, despite the potential consequences to the developing brains and bodies of kids.
Thousands gathered at the Unite to Face Addiction Rally in Washington, D.C., Sunday, Oct. 4, to fight the stigma of addiction and to celebrate substance use recovery.
Sixteen- and 17-year-old first-time offenders with low-level offenses are heard by a court of their peers as part of a new pilot program called Project Reset taking flight in Brownsville, Brooklyn.
Juvenile justice reformers risk leaving girls behind if they fail to consider how traumatic experiences push girls into the system, says a new report.
The premature loss of her younger sister, then 20, sent Gabrielle into a world of deep depression and painkillers, where she battled her own addiction demons ...