A national report released yesterday documents the seriously troubling results of the graduation rates across the country. Milwaukee Public Schools are at 46% with Detroit coming in last at 24.9% of high school students graduating on time. Read the report here.
Also in Detroit multiple adults were charged with felonies related to running a brothel involving [...]
I haven’t posted while this whole scandal broke out the past couple of weeks. I tried to stay from it actually. Like many people who work directly with people involved in the sex trade when the media gets a hold of a story about prostitution - I want to run in the other direction.
Now this [...]
Just one news item this week. But it brings to mind bigger questions.
From the Edmonton Sun today, Sex for shelter Here’s a small part below.
Youth workers call them the darkest, most disturbing tales of Edmonton’s housing crunch - girls, sometimes younger than 14, turning tricks on cold winter nights in exchange for shelter. “It’s so [...]
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 a few months back I wrote about Ludacris being recognized for his song and work by the National Runaway Switchboard. My friend Victoria’s recent comments had me thinking about hip hop and youth work.
First I think on the practical side that if you work with young people involved in the sex trade (or even [...]
Excellent youth organizing to report first in this week’s news updates. Affordable housing for families means less homelessness and less youth running away from crowded apartments of two or more families sharing one place. And that means less youth in the sex trade. Youth in the Bushwick area of Brooklyn are organizing against gentrification and [...]
I’m shocked to see a 14 year old girl’s picture in the news report on her trial for murder. But she was charged as an adult at first, so there she is looking back from desk with her attorney.
Sometimes the references for youth trading sex for money are hidden and you have to look more [...]
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