A bill has preliminarily passed the Assembly ensuring female sexual assault survivors will be offered emergency contraception at Wisconsin hospitals. Right now many hospitals across the state don’t offer it or even have a supply.
A report from Chapin Hall comparing youth leaving foster care in Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin found that youth who had more [...]
On this week’s news links of note…
Lots of quick action in Philadelphia and supporters around the globe didn’t result in bouncing a sitting judge who refused to see how a young women in the sex trade could be raped. But the discussion and public challenge she received is a strong statement.
In the New York Times [...]
A couple of positive news items to start out with:
In Washington State, a new effort called Teen Closet will offer stylish clothing for free to teens in foster care. And a statewide meeting happened in Seattle for foster care youth seeking to make a difference on policies that affect them (they already got a few [...]
So usually I find five news items a week that catch my eye and post them here. But this week I just couldn’t make up my mind so here’s double the usual news items because there is a lot going on.
In Rochester, NY, a woman was charged with pimping a 13 year old family member.
In [...]
Here are a few news links for the week.
Indiana is looking into homeless and runaway youth, especially rural youth are struggling even more. In Sacramento, CA though a local homeless youth center just got a wonderful new home. Take a look>>
A teen runaway is credited with bringing a woman running a escort service and recruiting [...]
In the news this week: a trial wrapped up in Michigan on a 16 year old’s murder while working for an escort service and a trial barely started when a man plead guilty to multiple charges from pimping several people, including two minors. In Texas, a woman was arrested for going door to door [...]
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 [...]
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