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March 19, 2024 |

Are We Listening? Youth Mental Health Challenges are Rooted in Community Violence

Policymakers must adopt a more nuanced understanding of the roles systemic divestment, place-based disadvantage, anti-Black racism, racial capitalism, mass criminalization and other critical factors have in driving community violence.

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June 03, 2024 | Press Release | Indivar Dutta-Gupta

CLASP Announces Launch of TYP Collaborative, a Youth-Focused Advocacy Organization

November 30, 2023 | News Clip | Clarence Okoh

AI is supercharging child surveillance and the school-to-prison pipeline

September 06, 2023 | Report/Brief | Deanie Anyangwe

Unified, Safe, and Well: Building Life-Affirming Systems for Justice-Impacted Families

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Young people of color are constantly reshaping American life—driving dynamic change in our economy, politics, and culture. Yet far too often, systems designed to help young people transition into adulthood fail to serve young people of color and their communities. Youth of color disproportionately experience poverty, are over-criminalized, and receive grossly inequitable access to educational, employment, and health opportunities. With an eye toward gender and racial equity and a belief in the power of youth voice, CLASP advocates for policy change that dismantles systems of oppression that impede young people of color from realizing their innate potential.

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June 03, 2024 | Press Release | Children, Youth & Families
CLASP Announces Launch of TYP Collaborative, a Youth-Focused Advocacy Organization
March 19, 2024 | Blog Post | Children, Youth & Families
Are We Listening? Youth Mental Health Challenges are Rooted in Community Violence
November 30, 2023 | News Clip | Children, Youth & Families
AI is supercharging child surveillance and the school-to-prison pipeline
August 28, 2023 | Blog Post | Children, Youth & Families
Are We Listening? Youth Mental Health Challenges are Rooted in Young Adult Poverty Rates
August 15, 2023 | Blog Post | Children, Youth & Families
Rectifying Past Wrongs: the Biden Administration’s Limited Progress in Drug Decriminalization

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WIOA Opportunities for Action

CLASP is committed to making WIOA work. That’s why we’ve developed short, action-focused memos outlining how states, local areas, advocates, and service providers can leverage opportunities to serve low-income youth and adults through state and local plans, policies and guidance, and budget choices.

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Report/Brief | September 06, 2023
Unified, Safe, and Well: Building Life-Affirming Systems for Justice-Impacted Families
Report/Brief | January 12, 2023
The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act: Mental Health Wins Undermined for Black and Brown Youth
Report/Brief | January 12, 2023
The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act: A Dangerous New Chapter in the War on Black Youth
Report/Brief | September 07, 2022
Relocating Reentry: Divesting from Community Supervision, Investing in “Community Repair”
Report/Brief | May 11, 2022
SYEP in 2021: Lessons For a Changing World

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