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Championing the Potential of Youth on Probation: Critical Education Advocacy for Justice-Involved Youth
This issue brief explores how NCYL’s FosterEd initiative has worked with partners to advocate for policy change and direct services for probation-supervised youth, and what steps other organizations can take to join the movement to improve educational opportunities and outcomes for these youth.
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Report on the Actions of U.S. States Regarding Education for Students in Foster Care and the Every Student Succeeds Act
This report contains information on the ongoing work of several states who have taken purposeful and progressive steps towards helping students in foster care succeed academically.
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Implicit Bias in the Child Welfare, Education and Mental Health Systems
Youth of color are overrepresented at every stage of the juvenile justice process. Much of the literature that discusses this overrepresentation focuses on racial disparities in the juvenile justice process itself.
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