Youth Today
Posts By Stell Simonton
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3.0KNews“Play streets” bring summer camp atmosphere to neighborhoods
This summer, select cities across the country will block traffic to “play streets,” creating child-friendly zones in urban neighborhoods that lack parks...
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2.5KNewsYouth programs central to Biden’s crime prevention plan
Expanding summer programs and employment opportunities for youth is a key plank of President Joe Biden’s plan to curb rising gun violence...
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2.3KNewsStudents disappeared during the pandemic. Community organizations are helping find them.
Schools across the country may have lost track of 1 million to 3 million students during the pandemic, but some are finding...
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2.6KNewsSummer Enrichment Out of Reach for Millions of Families
The number of kids taking part in structured summer activities has grown steadily over the past 15 years, but that growth has...
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1.9KNewsVirtual Prom Shows How Pandemic Challenges Can Spur Creative Solutions
From choosing a theme to booking the DJs, planning a virtual prom during a pandemic offered one group of Baltimore-area high schoolers...
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2.0KNewsQ&A with Lucy N. Friedman of Here to Here: Offer paid internships to all high school students
Lucy N. Friedman is the founder and former president of The After-School Corporation (TASC) now known as ExpandEd Schools. She started the...
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1.3KNewsKey to Gaining COVID Relief Funding: Partner with Schools Now, Nonprofit Leader Says
School districts around the nation will receive $122 billion through the American Rescue Plan Act to help safely reopen schools and support...
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1.5KNewsIowa Community Coalition Aims to Improve Child Literacy
AFRICA STUDIO/SHUTTERSTOCK As the saying goes, reading is fundamental. And in Ames, Iowa, a coalition of 29 organizations has been working for...
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2.4KNewsSummer Programs for Kids Will Use Multiple Strategies to Cut COVID-19 Risk
What will summer programs for kids look like this year? With vaccinations increasing but with COVID-19 still a danger, organizers of summer...
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3.6KNewsEffective Tutoring: Out-of-school Time Providers Need To Know What Works
In the coming months, after-school and summer learning programs will be partnering with schools to address learning loss in the pandemic. Tutoring will...
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2.7KNewsAmerican Rescue Plan Gives Out-of-school Time Programs Big Role in Pandemic Recovery,OST Reporting Project
The latest COVID-19 relief package, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, includes a huge chunk of money to benefit young people. Of...
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2.3KNewsSurvey: Pandemic Slashed Sports For Low-income Youth
Sports programs serving low-income communities have seen a big drop in youth participation because of the pandemic, according to a survey of...
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1.5KNewsCitywide After-school Systems Are Sustaining Themselves, Report Finds
Citywide after-school systems have staying power, according to a recent comparison of U.S. city systems in 2013 and 2020. “More than three-quarters of...
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3.1KNewsCOVID Relief Bill Would Reduce Child Poverty, Aid Youth Programming
COVID relief funding from the federal government, if passed into law, will make a historic reduction in child poverty and could also...
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2.5KNewsWhy Teenage Christian Picciolini Joined, Then Quit White Power Movement
Christian Picciolini, 14, was hanging out one day in an alley near the intersection of Union and Division streets in Chicago. An older...
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2.0KNewsToolkit Can Help OST Workers Band Together to Respond to Hate Messages
RUSSIAN FEDERATION/SHUTTERSTOCK What do you do if you find racist graffiti on a wall near your school or youth program? Or come...
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2.5KNewsWhen Hate Groups Recruit Youth: Teacher, Former White Nationalist Tell How to Counter It
Nora Flanagan’s first brush with hate group recruiting took place when she was 15 and living in Beverly, a southwest Chicago neighborhood....
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2.4KNewsAtlanta Nonprofit Teaches ‘Storytelling,’ Provides Pathway to Film, Digital Work
In Atlanta, the center of the South’s burgeoning film industry, a small nonprofit is bringing digital media and film-making skills to young...
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2.9KNewsMore Apprenticeships For Young People on Horizon If Federal Legislation Passes
MONKEYBUSINESSIMAGES/SHUTTERSTOCK Apprenticeship programs could soon expand in the United States, opening up more pathways for young people to earn while they learn....
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6.2KNewsApprenticeship Program Aims To Open Film Industry To Under-represented Young People
Not long after graduating from Lakeside High School in Atlanta, Yabsira Gebrewubet found himself working at a Publix grocery store in the...
