Youth-ServingOrganizations

Your mission to protect, educate, nurture, and encourage our next generation is a powerful responsibility. Understanding and protecting that trust is at the core of Taylor English’s Youth-Serving Organization (YSO) practice.

We designed our purpose-built, holistic approach to ensure the success of organizations and the wellbeing and safety of the youth they serve. Proactively, we work with organizations to establish and implement clear policies, procedures, education, and abuse/injury prevention measures such as training, checklists, and risk audits. Responsively, we support organizations through claims of abuse or other injuries as well as internal and independent investigations. Together, our efforts help youth organizations:

  • Recognize threats and prevent harm to children
  • Avoid, reduce, and defend against injury claims, including abuse
  • Manage and respond to crises
  • Navigate internal and independent investigations
  • Defend against regulatory or law enforcement actions
  • Protect the safety and wellbeing of all children

Our attorneys are uniquely positioned to lead policy and education efforts, trauma-informed investigations, and crisis response. We have decades of direct experience in social work, foster care, criminal prosecution, and the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS). These experiences have given us firsthand knowledge of the impact that insufficient preparation, claims of abuse, and poor situation containment can have on organizations, children, and families alike. We have the relationships and knowledge necessary to address your challenge–with integrity and privacy–before, during, and after you face them.

Through tailored guidance, we assist youth-serving organizations in adopting best practices, principles, and protocols to foster an environment where children and staff can thrive.

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Lawmakers Push to Increase Federal Privacy Protection for Kids

May 25th, 2023

Lawmakers at the state level have advanced or passed multiple actions in the last couple of years relating to kids’ privacy online, as…

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New Study About Disclosure of Child Abuse

May 22nd, 2023

Researchers recently published an interesting longitudinal study of disclosures of child sexual abuse (CSA). They reviewed records of…

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More Young People Opting Out of College

May 20th, 2023

Recent news stories fret about the deep drop in college enrollment over the past few years. Even after the pandemic and the resumption of…

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Is Childhood Anxiety Caused by Too Much Supervision?

May 17th, 2023

The Journal of Pediatrics recently published an article arguing persuasively that a major cause of the current epidemic in childhood…

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Report of Verbal Abuse Leads to Charges for Mandated Reporter

May 15th, 2023

Police have charged an elementary school teacher in Pennsylvania with violating the mandated reporter law. A child’s grandfather told her…

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Four Reasons to Become a Foster Parent

May 13th, 2023

May is National Foster Care Month, and a good time for me to answer a question I hear a lot, namely why anyone should become a foster…

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Administrators Must Face First Amendment Suit

May 10th, 2023

A federal trial court in Illinois ruled a few weeks ago that university administrators must face a free speech claim from a former…

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Celebrate ChildCare Providers

May 8th, 2023

May 12 is Provider Appreciation Day, created to celebrate the many professionals who provide essential childcare services. COVID had a…

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Mural Planned to Honor First All-Black Girl Scout Troop in Atlanta

May 6th, 2023

The Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta are honoring the 80th anniversary of the first all-black Girl Scout troop in the Atlanta area. The…

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Arizona Schools Hit with Ransomware Attack and Lose Sensitive Information

May 4th, 2023

Starting in January and continuing through at least mid-April, the schools of Arizona have been dealing with a ransomware attack and its…

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7th-Grader Stops School Bus in Emergency

May 3rd, 2023

One story that has been all over the Internet recently is the 7th-grader who safely stopped a school bus when his bus driver passed out….

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Suicide Attempts Among Children Rose During Pandemic

May 1st, 2023

The CDC recently updated its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report with statistics from its various Poison Control centers. This…

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Mandated Reporter Must Face Civil Suit

April 29th, 2023

Mandated reporter training often tells people that mandated reporters are immune from suit. That training is not completely accurate,…

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Fight Between Adults Was Not “Physical Abuse” Excluded from Insurance Policy

April 26th, 2023

The Massachusetts Supreme Court has concluded that a ”physical abuse“ exclusion in an insurance policy did not extend to a fight between…

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Three Lessons From a Current Scandal

April 24th, 2023

The police investigation into staff at the Rainbow House in Clayton, County, Georgia, offers three important lessons for youth…

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