Reports & Publications

We have put up the materials from the Addressing the Needs of Multi-System Youth: Strengthening the Connection between Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice  symposium on March 1st, 2011 for your use.

This Stoneleigh Foundation publication shares the results of the Stoneleigh Fllowship project of Liza M. Rodriguez.  Liza M. Rodriguez's project explored the topic of improving the Educational Outcomes of Children in Foster Care by creating The Education Support Center in collaboration with the Department of Human Services and the School District of Philadelphia.

Stoneleigh Fellow Gregg Volz has published an article on how zero-tolerance schools and punitive juvenile justice programs act as "school-to-prison" pipelines. In it, Volz and his co-authors argue how these systems alienate our children from and why Youth Courts are a solution to the problem.

This article presents a study on the "invisible victims" or children of incarcerated parents and how this experience affects them.

New Study on “Invisible Victims” of Incarceration: Children

by William M. DiMascio
Executive Director, The Pennsylvania Prison Society

What is done to children, they will do to society.
—Karl A. Menninger, American Psychiatrist (1893-1990)

The report, compiled by Hannah Klein with support from Stoneleigh Fellow Gregory Volz, is an overview of youth courts in Pennsylvania, including history, structure, types of offenses, and disposition rendered in each of the active youth courts as of December 2011.  Read the report here.

Kathleen Creamer talks about the struggles that families endure during incarceration and as parents attempt to reassume the role of primary caretakers.  The challenges are even more daunting when the parent has a child in foster care. Children are often denied much-needed contact from their incarcerated parents and caregivers lack adequate financial and social support during parental incarceration.

Advancement Project and its partner Power U Center for Social Change released a first-of-its-kind national “graphic report,” <

Joslyn Young asked what can be learned from students’ interest in technology and communication to enhance their literacy skills and improve their education.   Read about the results of Joslyn's year-long fellowship at Research for Action studying the role of out-of-school media literacy and its effect on learning.

A guidebook prepared by the American Bar Association with support from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention  to help community leaders decide on what cases to accept and reject when starting a new youth court or expanding an existing one.   Read the complete document here.

The inaugural issue of the Philadelphia Bar Association Women in the Profession Newsletter, July 2011, featured an article by Kathleen Creamer on theHealthy Birth for Incarcerated Women  Act.  This legislation makes Pennsylvania the 10th state to outlaw the risky and inhumane practice of shackling incarcerated women during childbirth.  Read the complete article here.