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Child WelfareRead More
- Agency: Train stakeholders on prevention of sex trafficking and the importance of foster children being allowed to live a normal life
- Agency: Oversee and publicize information about DHR’s implementation of the IV-E Waiver across Maryland
- Agency: Facilitate LDSS & Local Education Agencies (LEAs) coming together to increase education stability for foster youth
- Improve higher education outcomes for foster and homeless youth
Education PolicyRead More
- Monitor BCPS’ student arrest data collection and insist on the adoption of comprehensive School Police policies
- Promote fair and appropriate discipline policies, positive school climate, and the use of restorative practices in Maryland schools
- Reduce the use of suspension and expulsion and eliminate the disproportionate impact of discipline
- Ensure that Maryland public schools receive adequate and equitable funding
HealthRead More
- Agency: Protect children from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke by encouraging U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) to finalize smoke-free housing policies
- Address adolescent behavioral health disparities by promoting trauma-informed social and emotional health and wellness programs and services in school-based health centers
- Evaluate policies and practices in child-care settings, schools, after-school venues, and in the community that are related to food and nutrition that will help to ensure that children have access to healthy foods and beverages and grow up in a healthy food environment
Juvenile Justice PolicyRead More
- End Juvenile Life Without Parole
- Scale back the automatic charging of youth as adults
- Study and promote best practices for juvenile probation