NCYL

January-March 2008

Vol. XXIX No.1

 

                                                                                                                                   


Photo: Harry Cutting

Articles & Analysis

 

Hope for Mentally Ill Youth in Alameda County Juvenile Justice System

A newly established juvenile mental health court in Alameda County, California, plans to divert many mentally ill youth from detention to treatment.
By Demoya Gordon, Catherine Wollard, Edward Opton, and Patrick Gardner

Alternative Schools: Promise or Peril for Children Exiting the Juvenile Justice System?

Concerns have been raised that some alternative school programs provide pared down academics, and limited or no special education and related services.
By Haley Upshaw
 

Californians Again to Vote on Adolescent Right to Privacy

Group Makes Third Attempt in Four Years to Force Teens 
to Notify Parents Before an Abortion

By Rebecca Gudeman

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