This year, Jamaican child welfare officials abruptly removed eight teenage boys from a residential facility known as Atlantis Leadership Academy. All eight were American youth and three were adoptees. Dawn Post, a veteran attorney for youth in foster care, represented the teens pro bono, working with the Jamaican government to ensure their safe return to the United States. She joined us to tell the story, discuss the broader connections to child welfare present in this incident, and announce a new legal office she has launched called Themis Youth Law and Advocacy. Reading RoomJamaica pulls U.S. boysfrom troubled teen school after allegations they were abusedhttps://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jamaica-troubled-teen-abuse-allegations-atlantis-leadership-academy-rcna144426Adopted. Abandoned. But not forgotten.https://kentuckylantern.com/2024/09/03/adopted-abandoned-but-not-forgotten/‘I’d rather die than go back’: Jamaica’s school for troubled US boyshttps://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/american-teenagers-jamaica-atlantis-academy-j25rgm0p5Themis Youth Law & Advocacyhttps://www.themisyouthlawadvocacy.org/

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