“Being part of this collective really just validated my feelings that us youth matter,” said Adria Marin, a 17-year-old photographer […more…]

GRACE, End Child Poverty in California and Liberation in a Generation Urge Lawmakers to Pass the Bill, Which Would Pave […more…]

Crystal was in the foster care system since she was a little girl, after being removed from her home due […more…]

Stephanie M. Tombrello, LCSW, CPSTI, Executive Director Emeritus of SafetyBeltSafe U.S.A. has been involved in child passenger safety since 1970. […more…]

The Violence Intervention Program (VIP) was founded in 1984, as the Center for the Vulnerable Child, the first Child Advocacy […more…]

Franco Vega knows the hardships kids in South Central Los Angeles often face, because he himself went through it. Growing […more…]

When Robin Detterman took a job 15 years ago as a special education teacher at Pathfinder Academy – a school […more…]

The Children’s Law Center of California is the nation’s largest nonprofit law firm exclusively representing children – including those who […more…]

Jacqueline Caster remembers the eureka moment that changed her life from career woman to full-time philanthropist and juvenile-justice advocate. It […more…]

Sick and injured children entering UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital are not only met by a 60-foot welcome wall with messages […more…]

Since 1998, South Los Angeles nonprofit Peace4Kids has connected youth in foster care to a community they can count on […more…]

Liza Bray remembers a mother and child walking into a Partners for Children South L.A. (PCSLA) partner agency clinic desperate […more…]

In 1979, an article appeared in the Los Angeles Times depicting how unsupervised children growing up on Skid Row were […more…]

California is the world’s fifth-largest economy, but it is also the state with the largest number of children living in […more…]

The best journalism often tells the stories that no one else sees. Stories that have the power to change minds, […more…]

Janay Eustace found herself in the foster care system as a new high school freshman, juggling her duties as class […more…]

In the fraught world of child welfare, the 30-year-old Alliance for Children’s Rights has always found a way to discover […more…]

In the 1960s, there were few services available to parents who were raising children with Down syndrome. Refusing to accept […more…]

When Friends of the Children approached foster youth advocate Thomas Lee for help launching its mentoring program in Los Angeles, […more…]

Driving real, lasting social change requires clear vision, an ability to articulate that vision, and then the ability to ensure […more…]

For underperforming public schools across the country, the myriad challenges are plain to see. Too often, for students in those […more…]