The Resilient Ones: Maryland’s Foster Youth
The Resilient Ones is an initiative to help foster youth—one of the most unseen and vulnerable populations in Maryland. We have national statistics and local anecdotal stories which show foster youth need our attention. Our knowledge about foster youth grows...
Recommendations to Improve the Lives of Dually-Involved Girls
Childhood maltreatment is a strong indicator for future juvenile justice involvement for any youth; however, female youth are particularly vulnerable. Though the population of female youth involved in the delinquency system is often smaller than that of males, a...
Improving The Lives of Maryland’s Dually Involved Girls
This presentation is about a project that is actually at the intersection of the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. More specifically, it is about our recent work over the last two years to better understand the needs and...