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February 20, 2023
Boys Town Youth Advocate for Quality Care During Nebraska Capitol Visit
Boys Town students & alumni in Successful Futures Program visit Nebraska Legislature, Capitol, & Supreme Court in Lincoln.
Boys Town Contributor
January 17, 2023
Groundbreaking OPM System Installed at Institute for Human Neuroscience
Boys Town's Institute for Human Neuroscience is revolutionizing child brain research with the recently installed brain imaging technology known as OPM, which stands for optically-pumped magnetometry.
Boys Town Contributor
September 13, 2022
An “Experimental Station” - Youth Care Research at Boys Town
Boys Town Child and Family Translational Research Center is celebrating 30 years of Youth Care research publications.
Boys Town Contributor
August 17, 2020
“Connely Clan” Announces Adoption Day to the Foster Children in Their Care
The Connely's are adopting a family set of five kids in addition to the family set of three whom they adopted in 2016.
Boys Town Contributor
October 1, 2019
Striving to Fix a Flawed Justice System that Prosecutes Children as Adults
October is National Youth Justice Action Month (YJAM), and Boys Town is observing and supporting this event by continuing our advocacy efforts for children who are unfairly charged as adults.
Father Steven Boes
June 18, 2019
Charging 10-Year-Old as Adult in Death of Infant is Not Only Wrong But Damaging
Trauma or mental illness can lead children to do things that their developing brains can?t fully comprehend. Modern brain science reveals definitively that a child is different from an adult.