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Funds for mental health budgets were slashed a combined $4 billion from 2008 to 2012. In the wake of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School last December experts have watched that trend sharply reverse.
The process of destroying Sandy Hook Elementary School -- where last year Adam Lanza massacred 20 first-grade students and six teachers and staff -- began earlier in the year and is now nearly complete.
The New York Bureau recently compiled profiles on three young New Yorkers with one thing in common: a history of time spent in lock-down facilities.
What started as a “Kickstarter-type” project quickly developed into New York City’s first ever film festival based solely on the topic of fatherhood.
The streets are about to become safer for black and Latino teens who have been increasingly subjected to routine stop and frisks by the NYPD.
The Fatherhood Image Film Festival explores the complexities of being a father and positive male role model.
The Trayvon Martin Invitational became a symbol of solidarity for a community battered by the killings of two unarmed, young black men.
I knew I didn’t look good, but after a day of ice packs and Netflix, I was getting used to it. The curve of skin where my nose met my face had been cracked open. A bright purple crescent bloomed across my puffy cheek, swooping out from the inner corner of my right eye. “A girl did that to you?” my coworkers asked when I came back to the office, wincing at the sight. “Why?”
It was the same question I’d asked in the emergency room, waiting to find out if my nose was broken, and the same question I tried to answer a year later while reporting a story on girls in the juvenile justice system.
Trayvon Martin wasn’t from any of New York City’s five boroughs, but his death and the acquittal of the man who shot and killed the unarmed teen resonated with many residents -- black, white, and Latino -- as if he was one of the city’s own.
In order for 18-year-old Ashley Carroll to turn her prison cell resolution into a reality she had the help of a transition program that helps children in the city’s juvenile system.