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LA County Probation Moves to Aid Young Sex-Trafficking Victims - SCV News

March 22, 2019

The Los Angeles County Probation Department, along with several of its county collaborative agencies, has officially rolled out a new protocol designed to provide specialized services to detained youth who are identified as victims of sex-trafficking.…

State probed abuse claims at child migrant shelter - News Service of Florida

March 20, 2019

Florida’s child-welfare agency has investigated six cases of alleged child sexual abuse at a federal migrant shelter in South Florida in less than year, including allegations involving caregivers.…

Bill Grimm, Veteran Child Welfare Litigator, Honored by American Bar Association - Chronicle for Social Change

March 15, 2019

Bill Grimm, who has helped lead reform-prompting litigation against several state and county child welfare systems, has been awarded the Mark Hardin Award by the American Bar Association Center on Children and The Law…

Critican centro con 1.600 niños migrantes detenidos en Estados Unidos - El Universo

March 13, 2019

En una visita al refugio temporal para niños migrantes no acompañados en Homestead, en Florida, dos congresistas estadounidenses pudieron observar cómo unos 1.600 niños y adolescentes de entre 13 y 18 años permanecen “hacinados, extremadamente vigilados y con reglas muy estrictas”, de acuerdo con activistas…

Federal Judge Rules Trump Administration Must Enforce Special-Education Policy - Wall Street Journal

March 7, 2019

A federal court in Washington ruled Thursday that an Obama administration policy seeking to address the high proportion of black and Hispanic children in special-education classes must go into effect.…

Tampa Conference Spotlights Kids’ Behavioral Health - Public News Service

March 1, 2019

NCYL’s Frankie Guzman is interviewed before his keynote address to the Annual Research and Policy Conference and Child, Adolescent and Young Adult Behavior Health.…

Migrant Youth Go From A Children’s Shelter To Adult Detention On Their 18th Birthday - NPR

February 22, 2019

When migrant children cross the border without their parents, they’re sent to federal shelters until caseworkers can find them a good home. But everything changes when they turn 18. That’s when, in many cases, they’re handcuffed and locked up in an adult detention facility. The…

Florida Shelter Is Scrutinized For The Way It Handles Migrant Children - NPR

February 13, 2019

Hundreds of migrant children are housed at a South Florida shelter, which is under scrutiny because it’s the only one to be run by a for-profit corporation and is not overseen by state regulators.…

Florida Detention Center Expands, Packing In Migrant Children ‘Like Sardines’ - HuffPost

February 12, 2019

At a detention center in Homestead, Florida, a group of immigrant teens are packed into cold rooms that can hold 70 to 250 kids, given a substandard education and detained for more than six months, according to interviews done by five legal and child psychology…

Migrant children in U.S. are being held in unlicensed shelters, lawyers say - CBS News

January 24, 2019

Some facilities holding unaccompanied migrant children are operating illegally without licenses and committing several other violations, according to a team of lawyers who oversee a court-ordered agreement dictating where — and how — the government can house the children.…