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 [...]
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 [...]
In the news this week, I found a solid short article about legislators in Philadelphia failing to pass the Children in Substitute Care Act (CSCA) - a “bill of rights” for children in placement. Read here about some of the basic rights it was supposed to cover and how the measure suffered from lawmakers [...]
I’ll be presenting three new workshops in late September/early October.
The first two will be at the Fourth Annual National Conference on Prostitution, Sex Work, and the Commercial Sex Industry in Toledo, Ohio September 27-28, 2007 http://www.prostitutionconference.com/
“Doing the Right Thing: Ethics and Boundaries”: Working with adults and youth in the sex trade means knowing about [...]
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 [...]
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 the latest news items - this week has definitely left me with a lot to reflect on.
First though, I was in Chicago on Tuesday to present as a part of the Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women’s Network day long training on ‘Safety Planning for Real People.’ Afterwards, as trainers, we were reflecting on how participants [...]
This week I’ve posted two articles about a trial in California about Hanna Montessori, a 15 year old young person who was murdered in 2004 while surviving on the run from foster care.
The link between youth on run and foster care will come up again and again here, as well as it’s connection to youth [...]
I found three great examples of community efforts organizing for change. A group protested potential cuts in city funding for a crucial harm reduction tool - “crack kits.” The kits are designed to reduce HIV and hepatitis transmission, especially from burns that result with stems that heat up too fast.
Another group is calling out an [...]
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