The foster care system is a mess
A lawsuit demands more help for kids in this messed up system.
September – October 2002 Issue
September 9, 2002
Lawsuit may help foster kids
A lawsuit demands more help for kids in this messed up system.
Foster youth criticize foster parents and social workers
Teens in foster care give their opinion about foster parents and social workers.
The summer of kidnappings has teens scared
When kids were abducted this summer, it freaked out some of 16-year-old Sauntrie’s friends.
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Essay contest: How are you affected by violence?
Teens told us about the violence they live with every day.
What I wish I never saw
What started out as a peaceful afternoon at the library turned into a day Jaime, 16, will never forget.
What it’s like to be locked up?
Irina, 17, interviewed a classmate who described life in juvenile hall.
‘I want to change the world’
In a roundtable discussion, L.A. Youth staff members reflected on how things have changed over the past year since terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.
Teens view the Inglewood arrest in different ways
Things got heated this summer in Inglewood when a video camera captured a police officer hitting a teen.