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It's appropriations season and it is important that members of Congress hear from their constituents that we want them to fully fund critical juvenile justice and delinquency prevention programs for Fiscal Year 2020. Federal investments play an essential role in state juvenile justice efforts to protect youth, prevent delinquency, and promote safe communities. Your support helped get the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) reauthorized in the last Congress; now we need to ensure that our elected officials continue to adequately fund the provisions of the JJDPA that allow states to adopt evidence-based practices, conduct essential research and improve their justice approaches.

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We ask for the U.S. Senate to increase\nFY 2020 funding levels for the two federal programs specifically targeted to\nsupport children and youth experiencing homelessness: the Runaway and Homeless\nYouth Act (RHYA) programs and the McKinney-Vento Act\u2019s Education for Homeless\nChildren and Youth (EHCY) program. Specifically, we request at least $165 for\nRHYA and $105 million for EHCY.

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RHYA\nserves young people at-risk of and experiencing homelessness by meeting their\nimmediate needs, providing short and long-term residential services, and\nconducting prevention and outreach efforts to move youth out of homelessness.\nWithout emergency and transitional housing and crisis intervention, young\npeople experiencing homelessness are\u00a0at\neven greater risk for trafficking and other life-threatening conditions.

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EHCY removes barriers to the\nenrollment, attendance, and success of homeless children and youth in school.\nWithout this specific, targeted assistance, homeless children and youth are\nunlikely to benefit from any investment in education, and are at much higher\nrisk of experiencing homelessness as adults.

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Personalized messages are especially\neffective \u2013 please consider sharing your own story and explaining why this\nissue is important to you!

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Recently,\u00a0Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) and Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND) introduced H.R. 5053, the Justice for Juveniles Act, which exempts youth up to 21 from the\nrequirements of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA).\u00a0The Justice for Juvenile Act will remove obstacles for young people seeking relief in federal court\nwho have faced abuse in juvenile and adult correctional facilities. For example, incarcerated youth currently need to file grievances before bringing a lawsuit and sometimes these grievances are filed with\nthe very people who have abused them. Using our script below, please reach out to your representative today and ask them to cosponsor this important legislation.

The Justice for Juveniles Act will help protect young people like Hid, a youth from Pennsylvania, who was held by one detention staff member while being punched by another. He never told anyone at the facility, writing in the\u00a0Broken Bridges\u00a0report (written by Juveniles for Justice, a youth advocacy program at Juvenile Law Center) that \u201cthe staff who punched [him] would bribe [him] and other youth with snacks to not tell the CFO\u2026they told [him] not to tell when [he] went to court.\u201d Additionally, Hid was held in solitary and rarely checked on except at mealtime.

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TAKE ACTION NOW!

The Reconnecting Youth Campaign\u00a0needs your help TODAY to keep the momentum moving forward on federal funding for effective job training, education and national service programs.

Across the United States, over 4.6 million 16- to 24-year-olds have been separated from pathways to productive adulthood.They are known as \u201cOpportunity Youth,\u201d both because they are seeking opportunities to provide for themselves and their families, and because they represent untapped potential for employers, communities and our economy. Decades of research show that investment in Opportunity Youth will improve the futures of young people, families and communities by reducing persistent poverty; increasing civic engagement; and improving health, education and career outcomes. It\u2019s the right thing to do!\u00a0

Every $1 we invest in helping a young person reconnect yields a more than $5 return on investment, saving taxpayers $2 directly and generating another $3.50 in net tax revenue.

We need your support in urging Congress to invest in the American Dream for ALL, by investing in the programs that support them!

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As the House considers the justice appropriations bill, please take a moment today to Tweet your Representative and urge them to vote YES on three key amendments to the CJS appropriations bill, H.R. 3055. \u00a0

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\n\nDuring the 16 years that the JJDPA went unauthorized, federal juvenile justice funding decreased by nearly 48 percent nationally, and more in some states. As written, H.R. 3055 does little to remedy the decreasing juvenile justice funds accessible on federal and state levels. Please urge your Representative to support these three amendments -- Scanlon Amendment #2, Neguse Amendment #77 and Scott/Foxx Amendment #12 -- to increase funding for the JJDPA and youth justice programs in states. (For detail on the amendments, check out this summary.)

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From October 19th to October 27th, the Dignity in Schools Campaign is hosting our 10th Annual National Week of Action Against School\nPushout. We are asking for your support to let our Senators and Representatives\nknow that we don't want our nation's youth to be punished and criminalized in\nschool.\u00a0 We want them to get the resources and support they need to\nsucceed.\u00a014 million students\u00a0are in schools with police, but\nwithout either a counselor, nurse, psychologist, or social worker. More\nthan\u00a030,000 children under 10\u00a0have been arrested in the US\nsince 2013, and during the 2015\u201316 school year alone, over\u00a0290,600 students\u00a0of any age were referred to law\nenforcement or arrested. Join us by sending a message to your\nrepresentative!\u00a0Join us by sending a message to your representative! Fill in\nyour name and address below and click submit to take you to a screen where you\ncan send an email to your U.S. Senators and Representatives.

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1 in 10 young adults and 1 in 30 teenagers will experience homelessness in the U.S. this year. However, many can overcome barriers to housing, \nhealth, and economic instability if Congress enacts the Runaway and \nHomeless Youth and Trafficking Prevention Act (RHYTPA) H.R. 5191/S. \n2916. \n\n

RHYTPA will help more youth, young adults, and young families across \ncommunities access life-changing services, enter into housing, and \nconnect to caring adults by increasing the number of beds in programs, \nincreasing lengths of stay and extending age eligibility requirements. \n\n

Urge your U.S. Representative and Senators to sign on as cosponsors of \nH.R. 5191/S. 2916 today to help more homeless youth, young adults, and young families have a safe place to call home.

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\n In recent weeks, a public health crisis has \nunfolded across our country which will require unprecedented actions to \ncontain. As federal, state, and local governments plan their responses \nto COVID-19 and attempt to slow the spread of the virus, it is essential\n that we keep in mind the impact that this emergency may have on young \npeople, including those who are at risk of becoming involved with the \njustice system, or who are already involved with the justice system, \nparticularly those who are locked behind bars.\n \nWhile we appreciate actions taken so far to respond to this crisis more \nmust be done to ensure our must vulnerable youth are protected.

Join us \nin asking Congress to fund $100 million in essential services and \nsupports for young people in the justice system during this time and \nensure that access to Medicaid is immediately available upon leaving \nfacilities.\n

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Homeless children and youth stay wherever they can and are often forced to move frequently between living situations because there is no family or youth shelter in the community, shelters are full, or shelter policies exclude them. These children and youth face real harm, including negative emotional, educational, and health outcomes; they are at extremely high risk of physical and sexual abuse and trafficking.

Federal child and youth programs recognize all of the forms of homelessness that children and youth experience, but the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) does not. HUD prevents some of the most vulnerable homeless children and youth from accessing the programs and services that they need and ignores those children and youth who grow up to become the chronically homeless adults of tomorrow.

The Homeless Children and Youth Act would return decision-making to local communities and protect vulnerable children and youth. It would allow communities to serve the homeless children and youth they identify as most in need of assistance, by aligning HUD Homeless Assistance eligibility criteria with other federal programs. HCYA would empower local communities to use resources most efficiently to prevent and end homelessness in both the short- and long-term.

Please urge your representatives to sign on as a co-sponsor of the Homeless Children and Youth Act today to help over one million homeless children and youth lead safer, healthier lives and have a better chance for a brighter future.

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