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YOUTH TO POWER: Kids Need Community, Not Distant Prisons – A Youth Perspective on SB284

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April 15, 2019
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I shared my own story of being sent into foster care far away from home, and being incarcerated in an adult jail in Arizona when I was 15.

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Youth to Power: Why We Need a Bill of Rights for Children

October 13, 2018
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Why We Need a Bill of Rights for Children by Hayden Beaulieu I am a writer, a college student, and...

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“I Felt There Was No Future For a Girl Like Me” – A Former Gang Member Turns Trauma Into Leadership & Wins Soros Fellowship

August 14, 2017
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In the next nine years, there would be other deaths of other close friends, but this first terrible...

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