Angel was unable to live at home because her mother ran a day care center out of their house and her clients...
Gun violence occurs in the U.S. more often than in any other nation not at war. It is clear that this is...
Have you ever been to a conference or attended a webinar and left impressed with the program or strategy you just heard?...
Liz Burns, 22, was in the middle of a crazy-busy time at college. But, for some reason, she couldn’t stop thinking about...
With growing awareness of the challenges young people with experience in foster care face in accessing and completing college, it is more...
In June 2015, Houston declared the end of veteran homelessness and turned its focus to ending youth homelessness by 2020.
Dana Rachlin and other activists around juvenile justice have been waiting a long time for the city to limit police involvement in...
American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) seeks a visionary executive who is committed to AYPF’s mission of educating, engaging, and informing policymakers and...
Social and emotional learning (SEL) is all the rage when it comes to supporting youth and young adults. But what about staff...
When someone broke into Viri Hernandez’s West Phoenix home in 2012, she called the police. But she quickly realized the officers who...
In the early morning hours of April 27, 2016, Kraig Lewis was up late studying for his statistics final. A graduate student...
Youth need to participate in active learning opportunities that cultivate their interests and promote positive growth. Youth also need educational experiences that...
MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership One in three young people will grow up without a mentor outside of their family. With someone...
Guns are everywhere you think they’re not. Guns have been found on the floor of a movie theater and in the diaper...
More first-generation, low-income students and students of color, including youth in foster care, are enrolling in college than ever before. However, youth...
The mother left and two teens were alone in the house. It took the 13-year-old son 10 minutes to find the gun....
Nataya Foss remembers being told that she would soon have to leave the shelter. She had been staying in one of Washington...
I am known to borrow tips, tricks and tools from all kinds of sources. I rely on a multitude of frameworks from...
It has been a long haul for Melvin Lasiloo to get from where he started to attending community college classes in his...
Youth homelessness is a national crisis. Does that seem like a dramatic statement? It’s not. About 7% of the total homeless population...