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Staying Connected When Parenting Gets Hard

3/10/2025

Staying Connected When Parenting Gets Hard

Opinion

Tecoria Jones

Parent Cafés hosted by the Chicago organization, Be Strong Families, offer positive social connections and access to help for parents, writes Tecoria Jones.

2/28/2025

‘What if One Day You Leave and Don’t Come Back?’

Alma Campos, MindSite News

Many immigrant children in Chicago are too anxious to go to school, fearing their parents will be deported.

Improving Public Safety Through Positive Youth Justice

2/24/2025

Improving Public Safety Through Positive Youth Justice

Opinion

David Muhammad

Embracing positive youth justice may require a shift in thinking for some, but we must be serious enough about safety to apply proven principles, writes David Muhammad.

Abuse Allegations Went Unchecked for Years at State-funded Center for Troubled

9/20/2024

Abuse Allegations Went Unchecked for Years at State-funded Center for Troubled

David Jackson

A politically connected Chicago center for troubled youth was quietly shut down in June amid abuse allegations and years of failed oversight.

7/1/2024

For Kids Arrested in Chicago, the City Has Little to Offer

Dan Hinkel and Kelly Garcia, Injustice Watch

An Injustice Watch examination of Chicago’s efforts at youth justice reform reveals an inept, grindingly slow response to kids who commit crimes.

The Child Welfare System Fails to Provide Affirming Care and Protection to Transgender Youth

1/12/2022

The Child Welfare System Fails to Provide Affirming Care and Protection to Transgender Youth

J. Iñiguez

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, more transgender people have been killed than ever before, writes J. Iñiguez.   

Juvenile justice expert David Roush on juvenile detention reform.

6/2/2021

The ‘Gold Standard’ of Juvenile Detention Reform Shows There’s Still Work to be Done

Opinion

David Roush

Racial and ethnic disparities in juvenile detention are not unique to Cook County, but data validate the need for new approaches.

2/2/2021

A New Study Highlights Promising Jobs Programs for Foster Youth

Jeremy Loudenback

By Jeremy Loudenback

Trainer Casswell Goodman uses humor to engage foster youth at a iFoster class at Los Angeles Trade Tech College in 2018. Photo by Astor Morgan
One of the nation’s most promising programs linking current and former foster youth with employment started its work in a Placer County supermarket.

Youth Services Insider

1/28/2021

Crowning Gift Means $75 Million for University of Chicago School of Social Services

The Imprint staff reports

By The Imprint staff reports

The University of Chicago’s social services school received a massive gift from the family of James and Paula Crown. Photo courtesy of University of Chicago
The University of Chicago’s school of social work has just received the promise of a “landmark” $75 million gift, the largest ever offered to an American school of social work, the university announced Wednesday.

4/14/2020

The Promise of a Future

Jarvell Williams

As with many former foster youth, my life has seen its share of broken promises. Promises that as a child I had faith that adults held the power to keep. Birthday promises, Christmas gift promises, trips to Chuck E.

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