Youth Today
Posts By Stell Simonton
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1.9KNewsSocial Time Needs Good Social Media Policy
Wherever kids go today, social media goes, too. In fact, in a recent study by Common Sense Media, 41 percent of teens...
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Campaign Pushes New York City to Hike Social Service Workers’ Pay to $15 an Hour
Frontline social service workers are often underpaid and don’t have opportunities for advancement. Now two New York City agencies are pushing the...
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966NewsVital Ingredient Missing in Children’s Lives: Nature
“The child in nature is an endangered species,” wrote Richard Louv. His 2005 book, “Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children...
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1.1KNewsWhat Happened to Summertime Play?
Cynthia Gentry, founder of the Atlanta Task Force on Play, remembers the summers of her childhood: She’d leave home in the morning...
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After-school Advocates Lobby Legislators to Save 21st Century Program
As federal funding for after-school programs continues to swing in the breeze, after-school advocates are seeking to make their presence felt on...
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Research Points to Impact of Endangered 21st Century After-school Programs
Studies in four states show positive results for the national after-school program currently on the congressional chopping block. The grant program known...
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1.7KNewsAs Congress Considers Cutting Funds, After-school Leaders Say Programs Vital for Kids and Working Families
WASHINGTON, DC — The vast majority of parents — 84 percent — support public funding of after-school programs, said Afterschool Alliance Executive...
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1.3KNewsTeen Siblings Create App to Monitor Police Interactions With Civilians
ATLANTA — Three Georgia teens have created an Android app called Five-O to document police abuse of authority that has been downloaded...
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1.1KNewsAfter Spectacular Rise of National After-school Program, What Comes Next?
Today it’s sitting precariously on the chopping block, but the federal grant program known as 21st Century Community Learning Centers once seemed...
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1.5KNewsAuthor-Illustrator’s Foundation Spurs Innovative School-based Projects
Who, having read the story of Peter going out to play in “The Snowy Day,” can forget this book by Ezra Jack...
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1.4KNewsWill Federal After-School Funding Survive Senate Committee?
As Congress raises its ax to No Child Left Behind, it could also slice away the 17-year program that serves 1.6 million...
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1.3KNewsAt YouthBuild, Young People Construct Stronger Futures
ATLANTA — On a sunny day in October, Aikeem Lawson, 22, was among a dozen or so young adults repairing a dilapidated...
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1.0KNewsAfter-school Providers, Others Join Effort to Preserve 21st Century Funding
Advocates for after-school programs have swung into action, fearing that federal funding for after-school and summer programs could be diverted and lost....
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1.3KNewsLocal Dance Program Gets Kids on the Move
An Atlanta youth organization, Moving in the Spirit, began in 1986 as a dance class for girls at a women’s shelter in...
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1.7KNewsFood, Fat, Fear: Walking the Line between Informing and Stressing Kids
A girl with a blank expression stares out of the black and white photo. “Warning: Chubby kids may not outlive their parents,”...
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1.1KNewsAfter-School Programs for Low-Income Children Endangered by Proposed Senate Bill
A draft of a bill proposed in the U.S. Senate — the Elementary and Secondary Education Act — would kill a program...
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3.2KNewsSettlement Houses Laid Foundation for Modern Youth Work
CHICAGO — “Childhood was invented here,” reads a quotation stenciled on a wall inside Hull House, the Chicago settlement house that is...
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868NewsPublic Health Approach Being Adapted for Kids in Trouble with Substances, the Law
Many of the kids in juvenile detention with substance abuse disorders get poor or no treatment, according to Reclaiming Futures, a nonprofit...
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1.8KNewsCovenant House Wraps Support Around Homeless Teens
Three nights a week Todd Wilcher gets in a van and drives down Atlanta streets. He stops at the places homeless kids...
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2.5KNewsTechnology on Wheels: Bus Brings Computers to Kids after School
An unusual school bus lumbered down the road in Mitchell County, Ga., but it wasn’t taking kids to or from school. Instead...
