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It’s The Junior League way: When you find a need, create the solution
Everyone agrees that juvenile crime has wide-ranging implications for young offenders as well as their families and communities. But when members of the Junior League of Collin County saw that…
Dear New York Times, please call us next time…
Old stereotypes die hard. We were reminded of that obvious fact on reading an Op-Ed in The New York Times over the weekend that managed to drag one of our…
What Can ‘Volunteers’ Achieve?
Members of the new California State Legislature can expect to hear from a formidable advocate with a 40-year history of fighting for women’s and children’s issues – the Junior Leagues of California State Public Affairs Committee (“SPAC”), which represents the more than 11,000 members of 16 Junior Leagues across California.
Founded in 1970, California SPAC is one of The Junior League’s oldest and largest state public affairs committees, whose goals are to serve as the voice of the women and children in the communities they serve by introducing and supporting state legislation that improves the lives of women and children in the communities we serve. Other Junior League SPACs are in New Jersey, New York, Georgia, Florida, Michigan, Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio and Washington State, along with single-League advocacy groups in St. Louis and Denver. Some 95 individual Leagues with more than 52,000 members are involved these efforts across the country.
Foster Care & Juvenile Justice: Stepping in Where the System Failed
In an era when a staggering 85 percent of the country’s prison population has done time in foster care, the at-risk youth who are shuttled through the foster care systems of the 50 states are once again on the minds of women.
Girls in Juvenile Detention: Our Problem or Theirs?
Almost without noticing, girls have become a major component of the juvenile justice system – but once inside the walls, they are jammed into a system designed for men and boys. And the problem is getting worse, not better, with the dramatic cutback in state funding for projects like the award-winning Girl’s Advocacy Project (GAP), one of the only comprehensive projects in the state of Florida serving girls since 1999 while they are in detention.