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The Roma community in Ireland continues to experience structural discrimination in accessing their basic rights to employment, education, social protection, housing and healthcare.This report from Nasc, the Irish Immigrant Support Centre, an Atlantic grantee, identifies the often subtle and complex barriers to integration that Roma experience…

The next mayor of New York City should quickly establish an inter-agency initiative, in collaboration with the courts, to significantly reduce suspensions, summonses, and arrests of public school students while shifting to positive approaches to discipline, according to this report from the New York City…

Children and young people in foster, residential and other types of care in Northern Ireland expressed their feelings about the best and the worst of their experiences in a first-of-its-kind survey conducted by VOYPIC. In 2011, the organisation launched a computer-based survey to collect the…

RALEIGH, N.C. – A new issue brief released today by youth justice advocates debunks common myths driving much of the school safety debate and provides a comprehensive, research-based approach to the issue. The brief is endorsed by 56 organizations in North Carolina and across the…

Children who experience domestic abuse can be forgotten victims. Mayo Children's Initiative (MCI Ireland), a programme in rural Ireland, made "spectacular progress" in reaching these children and is a model for other countries to follow, according to the lead researcher of an evaluation carried out…

Early childhood behavioural difficulties are increasingly prevalent and raise the risk of poorer outcomes later in life. Teachers and parents are ideally suited to address these issues but they often feel ill-equipped to do so without some guidance. Participants in the Incredible Years programme reported…

NUI Galway’s Professor Thomas Scharf; TCD Professor Virpi Timonen; Author, Roisin Ingle; Dr Catherine Conlon, and Gemma Carney, NUI GalwayFamily networks and a strong bond between young and old are keeping many Irish people afloat during the recession, according to new research on the relationship…

By Erik EckholmCraig Davis, an officer at E. L. Furr High School in Houston. Officers once issued so many citations that students felt antagonized. Photo: Michael Stravato for The New York TimesHOUSTON — As school districts across the country consider placing more police officers in…

MomsRising is an Atlantic grantee through the Children & Youth programme in the United States. Posted March 21st, 2013 by Ashley BoydThree years ago this Saturday, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law by President Barack Obama.  Since then, the law has both…

'Zero-tolerance' policies don't have the desired effect, American Academy of Pediatrics saysBy Amy NortonHealthDay ReporterMONDAY, Feb. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Suspending or expelling a child from school should be a rare last resort and not a routine punishment for bullying, drug use or other infractions,…