Tag Archives: youth services
In 1979, the Los Angeles Times published an article about the children of Skid Row. They were hardened by their […more…]
Ready To Succeed, which has set countless youth exiting the turbulence of foster care on their paths to career stability […more…]
Five-year-old Noah was almost legally blind, pressing his nose against the page to make sense of the words. Then a […more…]
Mentors 4 College, a unique, one-to-one college mentoring program for high school students and their parents, announced today that it […more…]
Anne was a senior at Hollywood High School hoping to become a veterinarian. But the daughter of a single mom […more…]
In 1979, an article appeared in the Los Angeles Times depicting how unsupervised children growing up on Skid Row were […more…]
Alarming numbers of children in South Los Angeles were suffering from asthma and lead poisoning, and a community clinic needed […more…]
Janay Eustace found herself in the foster care system as a new high school freshman, juggling her duties as class […more…]
The young Black man with the ear-length dreads is wearing a brand new, white sweatshirt with MOREHOUSE emblazoned across his […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…]
Margaret Coyne and Jan Sherwood were both attorneys working in California’s juvenile dependency system when they met in the early […more…]
Every Saturday, a then-five-year-old Ghuan Featherstone would put on his cowboy outfit, sit in front of the TV, and tune […more…]
Former film executive and entrepreneur Romi Lassally’s children were in high school when she began envisioning a career mentorship program […more…]
Anyone who doubts the benefit, nay, necessity of the arts in public schools should meet Dr. Kristen Paglia. Within minutes, […more…]
From its roots as a shelter for adolescent Latinos in 1989, Jovenes has become a leading provider of support services […more…]