When the COVID-19 pandemic hit last year, Wichita, Kansas, nurse Heather McFann was at a loss as to what to do for...
New York City must finish installing Wi-Fi in shelters for homeless families and domestic violence victims by Aug. 31, according to a...
LEV RADIN/SHUTTERSTOCK Every day, I walk into school greeted with silencing stares from armed police officers. They’re not facing the windows or...
With a massive infusion of federal aid coming their way, schools across the U.S. are weighing how to use the windfall to...
Large numbers of students are not returning to the classroom even as more schools reopen for full-time, in-person learning, according to a...
Black and brown students are caught in a system that does not educate or rehabilitate them. We punish them for their failure...
Natalie Linn has lived with chronic pain since she was in first grade. Her flares all but disappeared for a decade then...
In the decades after the civil rights era, Black communities in Jacksonville remained disproportionately impoverished, blighted and policed. Some activists would say...
Teri Sopp’s former self stares down from a wall in Florida’s Fourth Judicial Circuit Public Defender’s Office. The painting, a gift more...
This time last year, I was in New Orleans for a child and youth well-being summit. Mardi Gras was over and leaders...
March on Washington, August 1963, 250,000 people. Women’s March, January 2017, 7 million people, worldwide. March for Our Lives, March 2018, 2...
Position Profile: Executive Director Application Deadline — March 19 The Providence After School Alliance (PASA) is currently seeking an Executive Director who...
A new study from the Children’s Bureau in the federal Department of Health and Human Services reveals some shocking findings. It turns...
In 2013, while I was in college at the University of Arizona based in Tucson, I had the opportunity to participate in...
In Philadelphia and in cities across the country, thousands of youth are engaged in purposeful internships, summer work programs and OST programs...
When Michael Khanlarian began teaching incarcerated youth about the work of William Shakespeare, he never expected them to develop a rap about...
Throughout our work in youth programs and critical educational spaces, we have witnessed how educators, mentors and facilitators committed to liberatory learning...
Running a youth-centered nonprofit has many unique challenges, but an engaged and invested board should not be one of them. If one...
Our labor economy is changing, and as more young people join the workforce, mentoring relationships can be a vital tool in retaining...
A pregnant teenager stands alone in a cinder-block cell in one image. In another, a young body shivers, curled up in an...