Tag: trauma-informed care

Nola Brantley says protecting exploited children means more than ending arrests or fining buyers: It means housing, economic opportunity, survivor-led support and adults who keep showing up. Drawing on her own survival and two decades of work, she calls on Oakland to confront the racial and economic conditions that leave Black girls vulnerable before traffickers arrive.

Judge Thomas Maddock, Juvenile Delinquency Court, Superior Court of California, Contra Costa County, labeled 14-year-old Lauryn G. “a danger to society” as he convicted her and took her immediately into custody without even the opportunity to hug her mother goodbye. Join the protest Tuesday, May 19, 8 a.m., Wakefield Taylor Courthouse steps, 725 Court St., Martinez.