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Mental Health & Girls of Color

One of four issue briefs, published in partnership with Dr. Kimberlyn Leary, assessing the challenges and successes of school-based mental health care for girls of color and analyzing the broader context of mental health and communities of color.

Mental Health & Communities of Color

One of four issue briefs, published in partnership with Dr. Kimberlyn Leary, assessing the challenges and successes of school-based mental health care for girls of color and analyzing the broader context of mental health and communities of color.

I Am the Voice: Girls’ Reflections from Inside the Justice System

To truly support girls, we must hear their stories, respect their perspectives, witness their brilliance, heed their creativity, and recognize their resilience. This booklet reflects that philosophy. This compilation of girls’ visual and written work from across the country, created in partnership with rights4girls, reflects their experiences with the juvenile justice system, and it is

Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood

This groundbreaking study by the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality provides—for the first time— data showing that adults view Black girls as less innocent and more adult-like than their white peers, especially in the age range of 5–14. The report builds on similar results that have emerged from studies of adult perceptions of

The Sexual Abuse To Prison Pipeline: The Girls’ Story

Sexual Abuse to Prison Pipeline: The Girls’ Story February 2015 This report exposes the ways in which we criminalize girls — especially girls of color — who have been sexually and physically abused, and it offers policy recommendations to dismantle the abuse to prison pipeline. It illustrates the pipeline with examples, including the detention of

Blueprint: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Domestic Sex Trafficking of Girls

This report grows out of a conference held in 2013, that was hosted by Georgetown Law’s Center on Poverty and Inequality; the Human Rights Project for Girls; and The National Crittenton Foundation. The conference gathered survivors, direct service providers, advocates, and state and federal government officials to discuss the challenges of addressing the domestic sex