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This book offers brilliant insights into helping disadvantaged teenagers turn their lives around. It is gripping to read, offering very engaging stories of young people struggling to find a place in the adult world. - Francine Cournos, professor of clinical psychiatry, Columbia University

This book offers brilliant insights into helping disadvantaged teenagers turn their lives around. It is gripping to read, offering very engaging stories of young people struggling to find a place in the adult world. - Francine Cournos, professor of clinical psychiatry, Columbia University

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Betsy Krebs is cofounder and director of the Youth Advocacy Center, Inc. She is the recipient of Open Society Institute and Ashoka fellowships, and serves on the advisory board to the commissioner of the New York City Administration for Children. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and worked for four years as an attorney representing foster children in Manhattan Family Court. Paul Pitcoff was a documentary filmmaker and chair and professor of the department of communications at Adelphi University before he cofounded the Youth Advocacy Center, Inc. His film credits include the award-winning The Way It Is, which profiles parents who are forced to leave their children in foster care.

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