Rites of Passage: Youth Employment for Mental Wellness
Youth HEALers Stand Up! is a collective of young people ages 24 and under who have lived experience of homelessness, and who train youth in the community to fight for better housing conditions, while...
View ArticleHow Philadelphia Flipped: Second Chances for Youth
Board Member and former Stoneleigh Fellow Kevin Bethel and other Philadelphia justice leaders spoke to YR Media about their work to keep kids in school and out of prison. In 2014, Philadelphia started...
View ArticlePainful recession for kids
Stoneleigh Fellow David Rubin and his colleague Kathleen Noonan wrote an article for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Our recent recession has had many victims—the nation’s children among the most...
View ArticleYouth Courts: Peer Justice Platform for Youth Development
The Challenge There is growing interest in the role that school-based youth courts can play in dismantling zero-tolerance policies that feed the school-to-prison pipeline. Youth courts are a peer-led...
View ArticleThe Importance of Interdisciplinary Work
Former Emerging Leader Fellow Leigh Wilson-Hall shares her story about the importance of interdisciplinary teamwork at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia that led to improvements in social risk...
View ArticleUnderstanding 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 school, and in their communities....
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