Three former employees of a residential treatment program in Louisiana have been convicted of negligent homicide and cruelty to a juvenile, after...
After-school snack? No, the children don’t usually sample the pickle juice at the Eureka Kids after-school program in Eureka Springs, Ark. But...
Youth in America rarely get the opportunity to ask presidential candidates questions directly, but that’s what the Presidential Youth Debate will provide....
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES Students in 10 Chicago public high schools can now send police anonymous text messages from their cell phones to alert...
USA TODAY The debate between abstinence-only and comprehensive sex education advocates has been reignited by the announcement that the 17-year-old daughter of...
THE EXPRESS-TIMES (Harrisburg, Pa.) In an unlikely pairing, a farmer and a nonprofit organization have teamed up to teach urban youth...
Nebraski legislators are considering changing the state’s recently enacted “safe haven” law designed to save newborns after some unexpected results: parents abandoning...
In what is being called the most extensive single-state, direct survey of foster youth about their experiences in care, about three-quarters of...
The New York Times Crotona Pool in the Bronx has become a new summer hotspot as neighborhood violence has waned, thanks...
The Wallace Foundation At a time when successful programs are being encouraged to serve more and more youth, out-of-school time (OST) program...
Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago This study finds that youth who stay in foster care past the...
National Institutes of Health In a long-term study of more than 1,000 children, researchers at NIH found that at age 9, children...
Michigan has agreed to implement major reforms in its foster care system under a settlement reached in a class-action lawsuit. The...
Hundreds of convicts – including sexual predators, child abusers and even a murderer – were allowed to work as child day...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Being homeless is hard enough, but being a homeless teenager adds even more problems to an already tumultuous...
The Washington Post Video cameras will monitor Fairfax County, Va., high school cafeterias for the first time this fall, to keep...
The Sacramento Bee The number of Sacramento County teens who have been killed in 2008 is the lowest in at least...
The Christian Science Monitor Getting a college education in the United States requires more than just good grades and hard work;...
The Associated Press/USA TODAY In Los Angeles, graffiti taggers are turning violent when confronted by members of the community, and three...
You probably think YouTube is a place for people to promote themselves – a la the recently featured video on the home...