Youth Today
Posts By asardar
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4.6KOpinionUsing Strengths Framework Helps Foster Youth Achieve Their Higher Education Goals
Youth in foster care have educational aspirations much like youth who have not been in care, with 70-80% of foster youth reporting...
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3.4KOpinionYouth Homelessness Must Be Made Visible Through Systems Collaboration
Youth experiencing homelessness are frequently described as hidden or invisible. The thought is that they are challenging to identify as they do...
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4.3KFrom the BureausGroup Seeks to End ICE Collaborations With Local Law Enforcement
Sitting cross-legged on the pavement, his right arm locked into a bright blue painted tire weighed down by cement and blocking the...
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1.9KOpinionSummer Programming Is Good Opportunity to Teach Cultural Sensitivity
Kyle Kashuv, a conservative, Jewish student who survived the Parkland, Fla., school shooting, made headlines because his admission to Harvard University was...
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2.8KFrom the BureausNew York Theater Stages ‘Antigone in Ferguson’
The Greek play “Antigone” tells the story of a defiant woman sentenced to death by a king who refuses to practice mercy....
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4.3KNewsWallace Report: Cities Provide Lessons on Data Management in After-school Systems
Eight U.S. cities worked to develop and manage data in their citywide after-school systems over four years. A look back at their...
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2.1KNewsArt, Writing Shows What Young People Want From Police
A police officer kneels down face to face with a child. “I’m sorry I stole,” the child cries. “It’s OK. Just don’t...
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Opinion
Pittsburgh Misuses Big Data to Target Poor Children for Abuse Investigations
One massive leak of middle-class Americans’ data seems to have the whole world in an uproar. A firm known as Cambridge Analytica...
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1.4KOpinionProgram Growth: Two Steps Forward, No Steps Back
We all want to see numeric growth in our programs. Having more youth means our program can impact more lives, offer more...
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1.5KOpinionOpportunity, Not Capacity: Partnering So Vulnerable Kids Cut Through the Clutter and Succeed
This year, more than 90 percent of children attended public school in the United States. That staggering percentage represents 50 million elementary...
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2.5KNewsMentors & Change Makers: Meet Some of the People Working to Bring Opportunity to Kids
As the gap between the nation’s poorest and wealthiest citizens has grown during the past four decades, so has the gulf in...
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2.0KOpinionWhy Juvenile Justice Reform Needs Child Welfare at the Table
While immersed in child protection work, it never occurred to me that preventing delinquency was also a part of my job. When...
