Stoneleigh Foundation program officer Diana Aubourg Millner says: “We must dig deeper to understand the behaviors and stressors and do more along the lifespan and within the family and community contexts to prevent and treat trauma where we find it.”
The barriers to opportunity for black youth are high and persistent, with achievement gaps, homicides, school expulsions, disproportionate contact with law enforcement, poverty, high unemployment and incarceration rates now the norm. Over the past few decades, these problems have gotten worse and more entrenched. A recent report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, which examines a dozen milestones across five racial groups, highlights widening gaps between blacks and the other groups in education, health and overall well-being from birth to young adulthood. The study did not look at gender, but the authors said the index scores for African American children indicated a "national crisis."
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