Youth Today
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3.8KOpinionI Used to Love America: How a Racist Jail System Changed Me
I spent my 18th birthday incarcerated, and saw many of my peers do the same. Our formative years formed within the confines...
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2.2KFrom the BureausActivists Hopeful ‘Torture’ of NY Teens Ends With Passage of Raise the Age Legislation This Year
Alicia Barraza started her testimony with statistics. Sixteen- and 17-year-olds who serve time in New York’s adult facilities are twice as likely...
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers | March-April 2017
George E. Ross - Scott Wise - Hanne Rasmussen - Amy B. Robinson - Annette Lanjouw - Jason McGill
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► Reports
Barriers to Success: Moving Toward a Deeper Understanding of Adversity’s Effects on Adolescents
The Center for Promise at America's Promise Alliance outlines the effects of adverse life experiences on the development and mental health of...
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News
See How the #NoExcusesBus Works
For even more photos with our story about the New York organization that works with children at risk of chronic absenteeism, see...
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1.6KNewsPoverty Simulation Pushes Educators, Youth Workers to Reflect, Relate
Educators and youth workers participated in the National Youth-At-Risk Conference's annual poverty simulation in Savannah, Georgia, in March 2017.
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► Reports
Promising Gains, Persistent Gaps: Youth Disconnection in America
This new report from Measure of America presents findings gathered from the latest data about youth across the country who are neither...
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2.9KNewsN.C. Raise the Age Supporters Hope for Change in Law
David Johnson was 16 years old when he faced his first criminal charge in a North Carolina court that considered him an...
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771OpinionPlacing Students Last Doesn’t Make America Great
Federal budget director Mick Mulvaney recently revealed that President Donald Trump’s “skinny budget” proposal titled, “America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make...
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Grants
STEM Education and Job/Career Training for Youth with Disabilities Program Grants
Subject: Education, STEM, Youth w/Disabilities, Job/Career Training | Deadline: June 15, 2017
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Grants
Grants for Training and Technical Assistance Programs for Child Abuse Professionals
Subject: Child/Youth Welfare, Safety, Child Abuse, Career/Job Training | Deadline: May 11, 2017
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3.6KNewsInnovative Summer Learning Programs Bubble up, Draw Attention at the State Level
In New Britain, Connecticut, elementary school students can get a passport at the beginning of summer, listing places in the community they...
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Grants
Improving Police Work With Youth Program Grants
Subject: Youth Welfare, Safety, Law Enforcement, Youth Crime/Violence, Juvenile Justice | Deadline: May 24, 2017
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Grants
Grants for Programs Helping Underprivileged Youth
Subject: Disadvantaged Youth, Youth Development, Youth Welfare | Deadline: Apr. 30, 2017 (pre-applications)
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Grants
Youth Environmental Education Project Grants
Subject: Environmental Education, Civic Engagement, Youth Development | Deadline: Sept. 30, 2017
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► Reports
How Should Justice Policy Treat Young Offenders?
The MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience produced this brief highlighting the latest findings in research on adolescent brain development...
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1.3KFrom the BureausOrganizations That Provide Creative Escape From Prison Start to Connect
Life prospects appeared bleak for 17-year-old Terrance Williams on a quiet Saturday in the spring of 2013.
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2.1KNewsConferences Highlight Challenges, Solutions: Threat to After-school Funding, High Need Among Youth
As 2,000 after-school workers gathered in Dallas earlier this week for the annual National AfterSchool Association convention, they immediately understood the convention...
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2.1KFrom the BureausA Civil Rights Movement Grows in Brooklyn
Two meetings last week, one in a ragged community center across the street from a waterfront Brooklyn housing project, the other in...
