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What is up with Virgin Mobile and National Network for Youth’s new campaign?

Via Trudee Able-Peterson and Margo Hirsch at Safety Net for Youth
Virgin Mobile, in an effort to raise awareness about homeless youth and to provide homeless youth with donated clothing, has initiated a new website, strip2clothe.com that invites young people to submit videos of themselves stripping. American Eagle, Virgin Mobile’s clothing arm, will donate new [...]

Stop Child Abuse in Residential Programs for Teens Act 2008

From Sunshine Girl On A Rainy Day, a great blog I need to link to more often:
H.R. 5876 is the first piece of federal legislation seeking to regulate and monitor abusive treatment within teen behavior modification programs in the United States.
Alternately called residential treatment centers, wilderness camps or boot camps, these programs aspire to “reform” [...]

Action opportunity for you

So perhaps you remember last week’s post of news links noting an arrest of a 13 year old girl charged with recruiting other girls into the sex trade - stripping in a club.
The media also reported that a 12 year old was found stripping at another club a few months ago. That club, it was [...]