Public invited to community conversation on youth

Forum to feature attorney from Juvenile Law Center Lourdes M. Rosado will be one of the featured speakers at a youth symposium on Thursday. In celebration of National Youth Justice Awareness Month, area residents are invited to “A Community Conversation to Save our Children” on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the Brandywine Center.  Hosted in partnership with the Coatesville Youth Initiative and Child...

Multi-tasking to keep teens from behind bars

Youth Justice Awareness Month event draws appreciative crowd Rev. Jack Crans, a 1968 graduate of CASH and well-known Coatesville advocate, opened the program with a prayer. By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times A program on youth justice Thursday night began with horror stories about teen abuse in the adult system but concluded with a dramatic tale of success: a Coatesville man who served...