Picture taken today of a sunflower growing in the middle of Holton St. in Milwaukee
Milwaukee is trying a new approach to girls in foster care who go on run a lot: full time foster parents whose whole job is to care for the youth.
A couple of updates on cases I brought up here previously. One [...]
Something a lot of youth have told me in groups or in conversation was that before they ever consciously had sex for money, people around them (friends, family, people in the neighborhood or school) had already labeled them as a slut, whore, bustdown*, or something similar. So, for a lot of youth, the thought sometimes [...]
This week in the news, clothing confiscated from a police officer accused of sexually assaulting a teenager arrested for prostitution has gone missing with only a month before his trial is set to start.
Three different arrests and charges point to specific kinds of experiences in the sex trade.
For girls in pimp-controlled networks, branding and tattooing [...]
From the work of Precita Eyes Mural Arts El Hijo del Sol
For different youth workers, ‘youth’ can mean many different age groups. For example, community health workers refer to 13-23 year olds as youth in outreach materials and many clinic services. For some in juvenile justice work, youth can mean only legal minors 17 and [...]
Last week I came upon a news item that I needed to reflect on first. Actually it was two items from the Toledo Blade. In the first dated June 23rd,
Concerned Ga. officials arrive to help comatose teen: The apparent overdose in Toledo of a former teenage prostitute has drawn authorities from Atlanta, where her courtroom [...]
In the circles of people who consciously think about issues affecting youth in the sex trade, a few main themes emerge of rescuing, criminalizing, or pathologizing youth, or some like myself on working together with youth.
But this is different than the popular understanding of youth in the sex trade. The kind of talk you might [...]
A pending bill would make it possible for homeless youth to qualify for financial aid. As it is, if you can’t provide parental information, contribution or signatures, you can’t qualify for federal financial aid. HR 601 could fix that.
I always wondered why “child pornography” is considered so different than “child prostitution.” For example, in this [...]
I’ve added even more resources for youth workers in the Current Resources page.
Want to learn how to be the best street outreach worker ever? Take a look at this must-read book by Trudee Able-Peterson and Richard Hooks Wayman from the Streetworks Collaborative in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. Trudee is amazing and has been working [...]
More positive news for harm reduction efforts as funding increases for California needle exchange programs.
Toledo, Ohio is once again the site of a national sex trade involving teens - this time a man pleaded guilty to five felonies in federal court, including compelling underage prostitution, to send young women to national fraternity conventions.
A Nevada man [...]
I’ve got a lot of posting I need to do just to catch up. About a week and a half ago I participated in the Free Minds, Free People - A Conference on Education for Liberation in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago.
Conference activities took place at Little Village Greater Lawndale High School - Social [...]
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