Recently I facilitated one of my favorite workshops for the Chicago Harm Reduction Training Collaborative on Harm Reduction Street Law. It’s all about how to protect yourself and people from your organizations and agencies in encounters with the police.
It’s harm reduction based because we talk a lot about how to protect your legal rights even [...]
I had to read the article a few times before I could believe it. Apparently in Scotland they are electronically tagging some youth who are believed to be at high risk of sexual exploitation in the sex trade.
Ok, let’s break down what’s wrong with this picture. Tagging people like they were lost penguins or whales [...]
I’m off to Portland, Oregon and Chicago to present on youth in the sex trade, harm reduction case management and street law for harm reduction folks.
This week the New York Times has a video report on Carmen’s Place - a shelter for transgendered street youth. Again I get nervous when I see youth open [...]
Last week I traveled to Minneapolis for the Pathways to Adulthood conference. Over 500 youth workers in transitional and independent living programs, foster care and homeless/runaway youth centers and street outreach programs attended from all over the country. Take a look at the website to see the range of workshops presented.
My workshop “Making a difference [...]
I’m finding it interesting to find relevant news items from all over the country - and from urban, suburban and rural communities.
Close to my home is a report from Milwaukee on violence in schools here. It’s part of a series and the one I’ve linked to explains the background to one incident. I’m passionately committed [...]
In programs for and with youth in the sex trade, a knowledge of legal options and advocacy is crucial. It’s not just because of the potential for arrest that youth face trading sex for money - depending on where you live it may be a lot or very little. But also conflict with the law [...]
Weekly updates on news articles of note:
An Arizona State University news article talks about the invisibility of homeless youth and explains a little of the culture and communities of homeless youth. I always appreciate it when media reports try to explore some of the complexities of a situation. Just like for youth in the sex [...]
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