Over the past 20 years, one state after another has shuttered its youth prisons and stopped prosecuting kids as adults, slashing the number of children locked in cages by a stunning 75%. This new book tells the story of how a coalition of parents, activists, and prison officials brought a destructive institution to its knees.
Emani Davis spent her teens and early 20s advocating for children of imprisoned parents. At 14, she was speaking around the country. By 26, she was physically exhausted and emotionally depleted by reliving the most traumatic events of her life over and over again.
A new generation of activists from the Young Women's Freedom Center is working to change the system while struggling to heal from their own traumas. In the process, they are pioneering an organizing model based on the premise that personal healing and political transformation go hand in hand.
COVID-19 and severe isolation have created a mental health crisis for incarcerated youth resulting in an epidemic of despair.
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Some therapists who had trouble connecting with youth turned to another source of connection: Minecraft therapy, which follows the approach of play therapy. In this webinar, we’ll talk with two leading experts in the promising genre.
How Minecraft Therapy Is Transforming Child and Teen Mental Health Care
