Youth Today
Posts By Stell Simonton
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2.5KNewsTeen Birth Rate Drops Dramatically, Still Huge Issue for Foster Kids
Jessica Chandler spent her teenage years in foster care in California after her parents divorced and her mother struggled with mental illness....
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5.5KNewsKeeping Adolescents Engaged: What Can After-School Programs Do?
Chicago high school students practice glassblowing in their out-of-school time program. Working with fire, creating their own designs out of molten glass...
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1.3KNewsThrough InterPlay, Refugee Teens Practice English, Speak Freely, Experiment with Identity
An after-school program uses a creative method of whole-body exercises known as InterPlay to aid refugee teens in language learning. “By moving,...
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1.9KNewsAfter School Is ‘Sweet Spot’ to Draw Girls to STEM
After-school programming shapes kids’ identities, and identity influences who ends up in the sciences, says Maryann Stimmer, senior manager for STEM programs...
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1.8KNewsSundance Film: Understand Huge Impact of Tough Childhood Events, Build Resilience
“Resilience: The Biology of Stress & the Science of Hope” is a new film “about age-old problems meeting breakthrough science.” Director James...
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2.0KNewsDeconstructing a Buzzword: A Look at ‘Collective Impact’
The term “collective impact” was coined five years by two authors writing in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Philanthropies and other nonprofits...
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2.4KNewsAn Old Message from the Drug War: Just Say No to Marijuana
Just like the abstinence-only approach to teen sex, the abstinence-only approach to marijuana sees itself as offering a realistic path to young...
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1.3KNewsEmpowering Youth Workers to Tackle the Needs of Young People in America
Two national conferences highlight how youth workers and educators are uniquely positioned to spotlight the needs of children and demand action. The...
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2.2KNewsService Learning in the Summer: Youth Can Widen Knowledge, Develop New Skills
Last summer Nancy Meza, 21, began an internship with a Chicago advocacy group, the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO).
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2.2KNewsIn Rural America, High Poverty, High Need for After-school Programs
Sunflower County, Mississippi, sounds like a cheerful place — until you realize the poverty rate is double the national average, and unemployment...
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3.9KNewsGirls in Trouble: Providing the Right Response
One of the starkest statistics in the lives of girls today is that 73 percent of girls in the juvenile justice system...
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2.6KNewsWhy Some After-school Advocates Love Competency-based Learning
After-school programs nationally are concerned with helping young people develop skills needed in a changing economy. Competency-based learning can mesh after-school and...
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2.4KNewsIn New Hampshire, Kids Add to Their Education by Leaving School
Schools in New Hampshire seek to engage students and reduce achievement gaps by offering extended learning opportunities, allowing them “to pursue their...
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4.9KNewsNew Mantra for Summer Camps: Develop Those 21st-Century Skills
The American Camp Association is jumping with both feet into measuring camp’s impact on kids.
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3.4KNewsEducators Rethink Discipline, Learn New Moves to Dismantle School-to-Prison Pipeline
When communities want to snip the school-to-prison pipeline, how do they do it? They take an intentional, multitiered approach: They revise their...
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2.0KNewsMeeting the Needs of Kids in the U.S. Who Fled Violence in Central America
A network of services is vital to meet needs of growing numbers of kids fleeing violence: academic support, legal representation and after-school...
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1.3KNewsPotential Opportunities for Out-of-school Time in New Education Law
As the Every Student Succeeds Act goes into effect, out-of-school time providers could have a new opportunity.
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1.3KNewsAll About Girls Summit Seeks to Create ‘Girls Movement’
“How do we change the landscape for the sexual-abuse-to-prison pipeline, stop criminalizing girls’ behavior?” asks Mary Marx, president and CEO of Florida-based...
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2.6KNewsMuslim Youth Treated as Outsiders, Face Hostility: Youth Programs Respond
More than half of Muslim students ages 11 to 18 report having been bullied because of their religion — a rate twice...
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4.1KNewsHow After-school Programs Can Impact Kids’ Screen Time
Two recent surveys have shown that children and teens are spending an increasing amount of time using electronics and media.
