For our final interview for Youth Justice Action Month, Emily Fromke spoke with Iliana Pujols, the policy advisor at the Connecticut Justice Alliance. In this interview, she shares her story going through the youth justice system as a teenager and how she uses her experience to help current youth.

Jeff Williams, Acting Executive Director of Foundation of HOPE in Pittsburgh, PA, joins Emily Fromke in a discussion about community renewal and youth diversion programs in Pennsylvania.

This is the second of the Hatfield Prize 2022 Op-Ed series. These articles include key takeaways from the policy reports each of the Hatfield Prize recipients researched and wrote, which can be read in full here. According to the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF), nearly 400 thousand young people nationwide are placed on probation every year and more than half of them are never found delinquent in court or were accused of status offenses – conduct like skipping school or possessing alcohol that would not be considered a crime for adults. For too long, formal probation for young people has relied […]

Texas alone cannot address the issues contributing to the violent behaviors of youth landing them in correctional facilities and the recidivism that results when they return to the same social groups and environments where they developed these behaviors. Families, communities and churches all have contributions to make.

This is the first of the Hatfield Prize 2022 Op-Ed series. These articles include key takeaways from the policy reports each of the Hatfield Prize recipients researched and wrote, which can be read in full here. After fleeing their homes for fear of violence and persecution last year, 302 refugees from many countries and an additional 321 Afghan evacuees resettled in the Buffalo, New York area. Sadly, for many of these refugees who dream of starting over in this country, food insecurity is a harsh reality. While food insecurity is a persistent problem throughout the entire American population, refugees are hit […]