Nov 14, 2023
Pennsylvania schools refer youth to the juvenile justice system 2.7 times more often than the national average, with wide variation across counties. Children are entering into the juvenile justice system for normal childhood behavior like fighting with peers. Research...
Nov 14, 2023
Research shows that most youth are not on a path toward adult crime, and over-involvement in the juvenile justice system can increase their likelihood of reoffending. HB 1381 (Rep. D. Miller) reduces the prosecution of children as if they were adults, expands...
Mar 31, 2023
Giving Troubled Youth a New Lease on Life We’ve got news! Red states are some of the biggest leaders in addressing the juvenile justice blues. The data is clear that locking children up is the surest pathway to them entering the criminal justice system for a...
Feb 7, 2023
STATEMENT BY CHILDREN FIRST Papering Over Past Abuses, Clock Tower Should Not Be Permitted to Operate February 7, 2023 Children First strongly opposes the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services’ (DHS) recent action to approve a license allowing Clock Tower Schools...
Jan 6, 2023
What Does the Fight for Speaker Mean? Pennsylvania’s new Speaker of the House, Mark Rozzi, made his mark doggedly fighting for years to get justice for survivors of childhood sexual abuse by extending the statute of limitations so that pedophiles...
Nov 30, 2022
At the onset of the COVID pandemic, the decision of the stakeholders in the Philadelphia juvenile justice system to come together to identify solutions and develop a plan to mitigate the safety concerns facing youth in congregate settings set the groundwork to achieve...
