Hard to believe that it’s been a year since the first migrant caravan arrived at our southern border. Through Trump’s punitive asylum and detention policies, officials say apprehensions are down. So, why did Trump just veto an end to…
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Young Latina ‘speaks out’ on the importance of including diversity
Apr 4, 2019, 1:20 PM 0
LatinaLista — Many politicians like to invoke the facts that “we are a nation of immigrants” or that our nation was built on the back of immigrants. Either phrase implies that people from all over the world have had…
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LA Blazing Path With Diversion Programs to Lessen Racial Bias for Youth of Color
Apr 24, 2018, 12:46 PM 0
By Paula and Larry Bitt Juvenile Justice Information Exchange All children make mistakes, and sometimes those mistakes get them in trouble with the law. It happens in all kinds of families and in all kind of neighborhoods. But when…
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Latina FL student leads charge against political inaction on gun violence
Feb 19, 2018, 8:30 AM 0
LatinaLista — If you haven’t yet heard of Emma Gonzalez, you probably have already fallen back into your old habit of going on with life, as if the deaths of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in…
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Compton Jr. Posse Fights Gang Membership on Horseback
Feb 6, 2018, 12:56 PM 0
By Caleigh Wells Juvenile Justice Information Exchange LOS ANGELES — Since local violence peaked in the 1990s, the Compton neighborhood has battled gang culture and worked to lower its high crime rates. For 30 years one after-school program has…
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Data shows Latino youth in detention centers drops 50 percent
Jan 25, 2018, 11:25 AM 0
LatinaLista — Sometimes there’s a good reason to send a kid to juvenile detention and sometimes there isn’t. A 16-year-old who decides to bring a gun to school and show everyone who’s boss is someone who deserves to be…
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Juvenile justice system may miss mental health issues
Jan 24, 2018, 11:06 AM 0
By Bert Gambini Futurity A tool used by many jurisdictions within the juvenile justice system to help recognize and assess the effects of adversity and trauma in children’s lives may not be the best way to evaluate mental health…
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Spanish use is steady or dropping in US despite high Latino immigration
Jan 23, 2018, 7:52 AM 0
By Phillip M. Carter The Conversation Hidden just beneath the surface of the ongoing heated debate about immigration in the United States lurks an often unspoken concern: language. Specifically, whether immigration from Spanish-speaking countries threatens the English language’s dominance….
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Green Kids Club: Helping Kids be Better Global Citizens
Jan 18, 2018, 12:14 PM 0
By Rebecca Flansburg Multicultural Children’s Book Day So What is the Green Kids Club? Green Kids Club is designed to teach young children the importance of environmental stewardship through picture books. The series was developed to teach children…
By Eddy Martinez Juvenile Justice Information Exchange George Kenefati, a sophomore at Macaulay Honors College in Manhattan, recently posted a social event on Facebook for his fellow students. It was meant to raise awareness of the challenges faced by…
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Millions of Youth Are Homeless for More Than Month At a Time, New Study Finds
Nov 21, 2017, 10:01 AM 0
By Bill Myers Juvenile Justice Information & Exchange Nearly one in 30 teens and one in 10 young adults experienced homelessness in the past year, a groundbreaking new study has found. Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Chapin Hall…
By Marilyn Garateix Latino Ed Beat Michele Siqueiros recalled the day she arrived on a college campus. “I thought I had arrived on another planet,” she told a recent gathering of journalists who attended the Education Writers Association’s fourth…
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Guest Voz: Thousands of DACA Recipients Already Losing Protection From Deportation
Nov 9, 2017, 12:51 PM 0
By Tom Jawetz and Nicole Prchal Svajlenka ncluido Each day that Congress delays acting on the Dream Act from now until March 5, 2018, approximately 122 people will lose their Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)protection. That is 851…
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Study: 1 in 4 Latino Kids Have an Undocumented Immigrant Parent
Oct 30, 2017, 10:52 AM 0
By Eric Moreno Salud America Nearly 94% of the 18 million Latino kids living in the United States today were born here. Their moms and dads are a different story. About half of Latino kids have at least one…
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For marginalized teens, activism may lead to better jobs
Oct 10, 2017, 9:59 AM 0
By Laurel Thomas Gnagey Futurity Social action and engagement may help marginalized teens in their careers later in life, particularly if teachers help them discuss and engage with social issues, new research suggests. At a time when race and…
By Katy Farber Moms Clean Air Force What your child learns about climate change at school depends on where you live. PreK-12 science standards are, in large measure, decided at the state level. That means what your child learns…
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Post-DACA: How Congress can replace Obama’s program and make it even better
Sep 14, 2017, 10:38 AM 0
By Wayne Cornelius The Conversation President Donald Trump has asked Congress to do what former President Barack Obama and his Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program could not: Provide permanent protection from deportation for more than one million…
GritoBlast! Dehydration. Fatigue. Poor classroom performance. Water can help solve these issues for kids, but Latino kids don’t have access to clean drinking water as often as white kids, and they are more dehydrated. That’s why Salud America! is launching the #SaludWaterhealth…
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Crowdfunding: Creating a library for the children of Vilcabamba, Loja, Ecuador
Jul 19, 2017, 3:24 PM 0
GritoBlast! — In April 2015, a volunteer artist cooperative known as Arte Intercultural Vilcabamba (AIV), was launched in Vilcabamba, Loja, Ecuador, South America. In two short years, the artist cooperative transformed themselves into a service organization with a single…
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Students’ test scores tell us more about the community they live in than what they know
Jul 6, 2017, 2:49 PM 0
By Christopher Tienken The Conversation Every year, policymakers across the U.S. make life-changing decisions based on the results of standardized tests. These high-stakes decisions include, but are not limited to, student promotion to the next grade level, student eligibility…
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Study: Young Latinos, Not Immigrants, Face Most Discrimination
Jun 27, 2017, 9:12 AM 0
By Cliff Despres SaludToday Young Latino men born in the U.S. reported experiencing high levels of discrimination, according to a new study. Penn State researchers examined reported discrimination among 1,275 Latinos and 500 whites in Los Angeles County. They…
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Study: Latino Kids Less Likely to Get CPR from Parents, Bystanders
Jun 13, 2017, 3:07 PM 0
By Cliff Despres SaludToday Latino and black children are less likely to get CPR with breaths, which lowers their survival chances, according to a new study, American Heart Association News reports. Study leaders examined records of 3,900 kids…
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Should we put juveniles away for life? Meet the teen who sparked a debate
Jun 9, 2017, 10:00 AM 0
By Dan Birman The Conversation Inside the Juvenile Justice Center in Nashville, Tennessee is a steel door fitted with a high-security system. Push a button and the door unlocks, revealing another steel door with a slot for IDs. When…
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LA’s Youth Probation Camps Have a Problem With Graduating Kids (But It’s Not What you Think)
May 8, 2017, 8:49 AM 0
By Madeline Ottilie Juvenile Justice Information & Exchange The Los Angeles County Office of Education boasts that scores of young people who were at risk of dropping out of high school get their high school diplomas or their GED…
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Why environmental groups need more volunteers of color
Apr 21, 2017, 11:45 AM 0
By Lindsey McDougle The Conversation Earth Day comes right before National Volunteer Week, an annual celebration of North American volunteerism in late April. This fortuitous timing gives environmental nonprofits an opportunity to engage prospective volunteers, especially nonwhites who live…
