Youth Today
Posts By Stell Simonton
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1.9KNewsWaco’s Cove Plans Host Homes for Homeless Youth
Each weekday afternoon, school buses in Waco, Texas, rumble down streets, pull up at designated stops and drop kids home. Some students,...
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1.6KNewsWilliam S. White’s Handshake Sparked National Support For After-school Programs
William S. White, who died this month, is remembered by after-school advocates as the philanthropist who punched up a little after-school program...
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2.4KNewsLGBTQ, Traumatized Homeless Youth More Vulnerable to Being Trafficked: Report
Understanding how homeless youth are trafficked is important information for the organizations offering them services.
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1.8KNewsAfter-school Healthy Snack Standards Fall Short Without Training, Study Says
Adopting standards for healthy snacks may not be enough to enough to improve snack quality in after-school programs, according to a study...
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2.3KNewsTrailers Take Makerspace After-school Activities to Nebraska Kids
In the largely rural state of Nebraska, what does it look like to expand opportunity for kids? It may look like a...
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4.0KNewsMake Sports Affordable For More Kids, RAND Report Urges Community Organizations
Does the cost of sports keep low-income kids from playing? Yes, said a recent RAND report. It recommended that community-based organizations cover...
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2.2KNewsState-funded Teen REACH Makes Difference For Illinois Kids, Advocates Say
Deena Mosbarger remembers the 11-year-old who had trouble managing his anger in her after-school program in Flora, Ill.
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1.8KNewsSummer Camp Part of Year-round Farm for Youngsters in Georgia
The last week of summer camp, students began boiling milk on Monday. They stood over a stove in the family and consumer...
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3.1KNewsUpward Bound Gives High Schoolers Boost With Summer Program of Drones
Kayla Linard stood high in the balcony of the Kennesaw State University gymnasium in Marietta, Ga., holding a white remote control device.
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2.4KNewsGlobal Kids Summer Program Opens Students’ Eyes to Foreign Affairs
What if you were a member of the National Security Council and learned that a foreign country could be building nuclear weapons...
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4.0KNewsYouth in Foster Care Navigate Challenges As They Look Toward College
Julia, 16, a high school senior in Alpharetta, Ga., knows where she wants to go to college: It’s Georgia State University in...
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8.1KNewsHomelessness Still High Among Foster Youth Adopted, Reunited With Families, Report Finds
A surprising link between youth homelessness and foster care emerged today from a research project at the University of Chicago’s Chapin Hall....
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3.1KNewsChicago Benchmarking Collaborative: Data Project May Be Model for Other Nonprofits
A colorful mosaic of smiling children brightens the wall outside Christopher House near Logan Square in Chicago. Inside the building is a...
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2.6KNewsKids Count Data: Overall Child Well-Being Improves, but Big Racial Disparities Continue
The number of children in the United States increased by more than 9 million in 30 years, with most of that increase...
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5.1KNewsYouth Show Ways to Reshape Homeless Policy, Chapin Hall Researchers Say
When Abrea Ponce, 25, looks back on her childhood, she realizes things could have been different. The San Diego mother and staff...
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2.5KNewsYouth-serving Nonprofits Linked With Greater Prosperity in Cities
Are you with a small but growing nonprofit that serves kids? Jim Chesire is convinced of your value. And furthermore, the Chicago...
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2.2KNewsSouth Dakota YWCA ‘Breakaway’ Provides Services to Youth, Women
A jumble of multicolored wires spilled out of the open side of a computer as Leilani Liggins, 6, dressed in a pink...
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4.5KNewsSTEM Programs for Middle Schoolers Go to the Library
When a “mobile science lab” shows up after school at a branch library in Hartford, Conn., kids cluster around it. They look...
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2.3KNewsAfter-school Program Teaches Immigrant Children and Parents
Two hours after the school day ended, three parents sat in the nearly empty cafeteria at Norton Park Elementary School in a...
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3.7KNewsYoung Atlanta Refugees Build Robotics Along With New Lives
An Atlanta robotics team initially made up of refugee youth has racked up win after win in state and national competitions, successfully...
