California: Young woman picking up garbage in bag at beach

Plunging Youth Crime Is Opportunity For California

The massive, 82% plummet in youth arrests over the last quarter-century has devastated California’s youth correctional system, the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ).

Planet Connect Offers Grants to High Schoolers

Planet Connect is offering high school students grants of $1,000 to implement their problem-solving projects and participate in a local internship focused on wildlife conservation. Winners will be provided $500.00 to turn their projects into reality. After completing their projects in June, winners will participate in an 80-hour wildlife conservation or natural resource internship in their local community during the summer of 2012.  At the end of the internship they will be awarded a $500.00 stipend.