San Antonio College Library

101 Things You Can Do for Our Children's Future is a call to action to parents - as well as seniors, nonparents, employers, teachers, and all Americans - that shows how to create a better life for children now. With strategies ranging from the traditional to the revolutionary - from simple techniques to create more family time to ways to weave a "super-extended family," from how to create family-friendly workplaces to making libraries and parks safe...

"In 2014, the arrest and detention of thousands of desperate young migrants at the southwest border of the United States exposed the U.S. government's shadowy juvenile detention system, which had escaped public scrutiny for years. This book tells the story of six Central American and Mexican children who are driven from their homes by violence and deprivation, and who embark alone, risking their lives, on the perilous journey north. They suffer coercive...

Over the past 25 years, the intersection of developmental psychology and public policy has become an increasingly active and important domain for researchers, policymakers, children's rights advocates, and practitioners. At the forefront of the child development research and social policy movement is Edward Zigler, whose?knowledge for action? approach has revolutionized the way public policy is enacted to better serve vulnerable youth populations....

Meet nine courageous young adults who have lived in the United States with a secret for much of their lives: they are not U.S. citizens. They came from Colombia, Mexico, Ghana, Independent Samoa, and Korea. They came seeking education, fleeing violence, and escaping poverty. All have heartbreaking and hopeful stories about leaving their homelands and starting a new life in America. And all are weary of living in the shadows.