This New Yorker article, by Rachel Aviv, about how a woman loses her child through a traditional child welfare system in Orange County, CA, is a gripping read. Would this situation have turned out differently if the system had the ability to...
....Marie's story is a good example. Marie (not her real name), who was 18 years old and on the verge of graduating from high school, had been a peer leader with the HOPE Coalition since her freshman year of high school. The HOPE Coalition is a...
A school worker’s report to Clark County’s child abuse hotline about 7-year-old Roderick “RJ” Arrington Jr. was one of more than 35,000 such calls handled in 2012. ...An employee at RJ’s school called the hotline,...
...Brewer is so far rejecting calls to replace the agency's leader, and supporters say the governor ensured the botched cases were made public and has called for accountability. Clarence Carter, director of the Department of Economic Security, which...
"A lot of people feel great pain and grief," said Rosemarie Guiffra, a middle school student from Hoffman Estates. "It's kind of nice to know someone else knows." Rosemarie's mother suffers from mental illness and her father "isn't in the picture"...
http://witnessla.com/juvenile-justice/2012/admin/the-art-of-changing-brains-neurofeedback-and-incarcerated-kids/
The Anchorage Daily News is running a series called 'Alcohol & Me'. They describe it as "a place for Alaskans to talk about alcohol in their lives. If you lost friends. If you found sobriety. These are your stories in your own words." This series is supported by the Recover Alaska Media Project fund at the Alaska Community Foundation. Contributors to the fund are Alaska Children's Trust, Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority, Bristol Bay Native Corp., Providence Health & Services...
[California] Gov. Jerry Brown’s belief in the principle of local decision-making will be put to the test with the state’s new school finance system known as the Local Control Funding Formula . But at a dozen forums in low-income neighborhoods across the state, parents said that while they’re enthusiastic about the new funding formula, they “had little trust in current processes aimed at involving them in decision making,” according to feedback...
When it comes to tackling the problem of chronic absenteeism , students who already have a track record of skipping class can be a particularly tough crowd to sway. But a new report out of New York City—where one out of every...
This article looks at the work of United Global Outreach , a non-profit group aimed at building up communities in need, in their efforts to transform the town of Bithlo, FL, pop. 8,000. Every community can be changed. I think sometimes...
You may have heard that Amsterdam is trying out a new way to deal with problem public drunks. Instead of arresting them, the city is setting them to work—and paying them in beer. For just over a year, Amsterdam NGO Regenboog Groep (Rainbow...
It’s a major victory: helping a homeless man get a place to live in San Francisco after 15 years on the streets. His salvation came from high school classmates who found him online. And they found him through a startup website that’s...
Connecticut released the official report of the shootings that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School last year. A link to the full report, which was released yesterday, is below. More questions arise than are answered in the report. Is there a...