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 [...]
Here in Milwaukee, the local paper reports on recent cases of teens involved in having sex for money off Craigslist.
Last week I blogged about Dallas County needing some encouragement to take action on a strip club that had a then 12-year-old girl dancing at the club. Turns out the law didn’t specify a penalty for [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Youth Outlook, an amazing youth media organization, reports this past week on Youth Together of Oakland CA finding youth peace-keepers in the same students who were involved in major fights that broke out in local high schools.
The Ali Forney Center in New York released a new campaign to reach homeless GLBTQ youth in [...]
Really, it’s impressive how many news items I review to just come up with five a week. I suppose I could add more but once I consider which ones I think are notable - it’s usually about that number.
I’m conscious of which items I don’t select. I’m focusing on youth and the sex trade, so [...]
I’m off to Portland, Oregon and Chicago to present on youth in the sex trade, harm reduction case management and street law for harm reduction folks.
This week the New York Times has a video report on Carmen’s Place - a shelter for transgendered street youth. Again I get nervous when I see youth open [...]
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 [...]
Weekly updates on news articles of note:
An Arizona State University news article talks about the invisibility of homeless youth and explains a little of the culture and communities of homeless youth. I always appreciate it when media reports try to explore some of the complexities of a situation. Just like for youth in the sex [...]
This week’s news items of interest to me include a guilty verdict in the trial on Hanna Montessori’s murder. Another article is more explicit about some of the testimony in the trial. Here’s the link - but I need to caution you - it’s very difficult and traumatic to read - both because of the [...]
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