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December 20, 2012
Healing Hurt People project of the Stoneleigh Foundation
“Our children are dying and we can stop it,” says Dr. Ted Corbin, an emergency department physician at the Drexel University College of Medicine where…
December 17, 2012
Creative solutions are needed to bring effective bullying prevention to more youth
Lately, it seems that barely a week can go by without a terrible case of bullying showing up in newspaper headlines. Bullying is not a…
December 11, 2012
Setting justice-involved youth towards the path to success through career and technical…
In 2008, when Jose was released from his nine-month stay in a Pennsylvania residential placement for his auto theft adjudication and returned to Philadelphia, he…
November 28, 2012
Can ‘talent injection’ remake social services?
The Stoneleigh Foundation is featured by Governing Magazine. One of the interesting, and perennial, disconnects in our complicated federal system is that state and local…
November 26, 2012
In juvenile detention, girls find health system geared to boys
Stoneleigh Fellow Leslie Acoca is featured by NPR. GOLD: Reylene’s story is typical of girls in detention, and that presents a problem for people who…
November 21, 2012
Emerging Leader Felllow Marnie Kaplan testifies at the Pennsylvania Department of Education
Stoneleigh Emerging Leader Fellow Marnie Kaplan testified at the Pennsylvania Department of Education to call upon them to temporarily stop approving more cyber charter schools. Marnie was…
October 16, 2012
Philadelphia City Council Committee on Public Safety Adopts Report on Youth Courts
Stoneleigh Fellow Gregory Volz provided testimony to Philadelphia’s City Council during hearings to learn more about youth courts. View City Council’s Final Report
September 14, 2012
Dismantling the cradle to prison pipeline
The Children’s Defense Fund released the State of America’s Children 2012 Handbooklast month, an annual compilation of national data on child well-being, as well as its Portrait of Inequality which…
September 4, 2012
Understanding Multisystem Youth and their Patterns of Services Use
Dennis Culhane presents a report on multisystem youth commissioned by the Stoneleigh Foundation. View His Report Many youth in Philadelphia face challenges at home, at…
August 24, 2012
Responding to gun violence in Philadelphia & Wilmington
Stoneleigh Fellow Ted Corbin discusses violence prevention solutions with Marty Moss-Coane on WHYY Radio Times. To close out Radio Times’ series on gun violence in…
August 23, 2012
Welcome to the City of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Stoneleigh Fellow Ted Corbin is featured in Philadelphia magazine in a piece about the impact of urban violence on rates of PTSD. As a result…
August 15, 2012
Data-driven public policy reforms
Every day in Pennsylvania, child welfare professionals gather and assess information to make critical decisions about the commonwealth’s youngest citizens. Shouldn’t we similarly expect policymakers,…
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