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Apr 25

Juvenile Law Center’s 2022 Leadership Prize Celebration

On May 12th, Juvenile Law Center’s Leadership Prize will celebrate the work of the 2022 Leadership Prize recipients and of Juvenile Law Center. The Leadership Prize Celebration is an important annual event, critical to Juvenile Law Center’s goal of building the field of children’s rights advocates. Winners are leading lights…

Juvenile Justice

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Juvenile Law Center’s 2022 Leadership Prize Celebration
Juvenile Law Center’s 2022 Leadership Prize Celebration

Oct 27, 2020

Critical Conversations in Challenging Times

Amidst the COVID pandemic, the racial justice reckoning in our hearts and in our streets, and the increasingly toxic rhetoric of the 2020 elections, many of us are looking for ways we can step out of our usual routine, make connections despite our COVID precautions, and perhaps learn something new…

Juvenile Justice

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Critical Conversations in Challenging Times
Critical Conversations in Challenging Times

Sep 28, 2020

Celebrating 45 Years of Juvenile Law Center

Over the next four months, through a series of online events and blogs, we will look back on our 45 years of advocating for rights, dignity, equity and opportunity for youth in the child welfare and justice systems. Amidst COVID-19 and the racial reckoning underway in our country, it is…

Juvenile Law Center

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Celebrating 45 Years of Juvenile Law Center
Celebrating 45 Years of Juvenile Law Center

May 1, 2020

Juvenile Law Center’s COVID Response Fund

When the COVID crisis hit the United States, Juvenile Law Center sprang into action. We know from decades of experience that youth in the child welfare and justice systems are particularly vulnerable because they are in the shadows. …

Covid

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Apr 18, 2020

COVID-19: Juvenile Law Center’s Response to the Crisis

Unable to practice social distancing. Unsanitary conditions. Insufficient access to soap and water for handwashing. Isolated from family and community. These are the daily realities for youth in the child welfare and justice systems during this pandemic. Residential facilities are breeding grounds for the contagion since youth share sleeping, living…

Child Welfare

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COVID-19: Juvenile Law Center’s Response to the Crisis
COVID-19: Juvenile Law Center’s Response to the Crisis

Mar 31, 2020

Zeroed Out: Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice and the Stimulus Bill

According to the CDC, “social isolation” is the leading cause of child maltreatment. Yet social distancing is necessary to ensure the public’s health and safety during this pandemic. It can, however, put youth at a heightened risk of child abuse and neglect. Detention centers, group homes, and other institutional facilities…

Covid 19

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Zeroed Out: Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice and the Stimulus Bill
Zeroed Out: Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice and the Stimulus Bill

Mar 28, 2020

JUVENILE LAW CENTER COVID-19 STATEMENT

JUVENILE LAW CENTER COVID-19 STATEMENT During the global crisis that is COVID-19, we urge the protection of our country’s most vulnerable youth — particularly those in the child welfare and justice systems. States should: -Ensure youth in foster care have a safe place to live, especially those at risk of homelessness; -Remove children who can be returned to their communities from incarceration and institute safety measures to protect youth who remain; and

Covid 19

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Mar 24, 2020

Children, Crowded Institutions and the COVID-19 Pandemic

“My greatest fear was that they would forget I was in there.” I keep replaying these words as I consider the urgent needs of youth in the justice and child welfare systems during this COVID-19 pandemic. These are the words of a colleague reflecting on his time in solitary confinement…

Coronavirus

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Children, Crowded Institutions and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Children, Crowded Institutions and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Nov 26, 2019

Grateful for the Justice for Juveniles Act

As we begin the week of Thanksgiving, I am grateful for introduction of the Justice for Juveniles Act by Congresswomen Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) with bi-partisan support from co-sponsors Kelly Armstrong (R-ND), Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), John Katko (R-NY) and Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA). The bill increases access to the courts for…

Prison

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Grateful for the Justice for Juveniles Act
Grateful for the Justice for Juveniles Act

Oct 31, 2019

Youth Justice Action Month

As Youth Justice Action Month comes to a close, one experience really epitomized the spirit of the month-long effort to elevate and amplify work on youth justice for me. I am the co-editor of the law school casebook, Children and the Law, published by West Academic Publishing Company. My co-editor’s…

Criminal Justice

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Youth Justice Action Month
Youth Justice Action Month
Susan Vivian Mangold

Susan Vivian Mangold

CEO, Juvenile Law Center

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