Youth Today
口 Feature Story
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9.7KTransportation a Barrier to After-school Programs
What if a student wants to go to an after-school program but doesn’t have a ride? It’s an issue faced by most...
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3.6KWhen Young People Lead, True Benefit Follows
Fresno is in the middle of the desert. The summers are hot. The average temperature in September is 93 degrees. On this...
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2.2KHighlights of Immigration Coverage in Southern California
Students at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism have been shooting videos about the undocumented young people...
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2.2KSchool Shootings a Tiny Fraction of Violence That Menaces Youth
The best way to stop school violence is to stop all youth violence. School violence really is a form of youth violence....
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1.4KChild Welfare System Improvement Grants
Subject: Child/Youth Welfare, Adoption, Foster Care | Deadline: July 18, 2018 | Amount: $1,000,000 - $1,610,000
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4.4KOur Lives Are At Stake
I won’t let you fill me up anymore. Your hatred is toxic and time consuming You taught me to run away and...
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5.5KMany Homeless Youth Are Pregnant or Parenting, Chapin Hall Study Finds
Nearly half of America’s homeless women and girls are parents or are about to be parents, a chilling new study has found.
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1.8KTransforming Juvenile Probation – A Vision for Getting it Right
The Annie E. Casey Foundation produced this report presenting the case for reforming juvenile probation to be a more effective, fair and...
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2.8KMentoring Programs Need to Experiment With What Works Best for Foster Youth
If you work with youth in foster care, you know that every child is unique with specific needs, strengths and opportunities. It...
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2.8KFewer DACA Students Enrolling in California Colleges
With President Donald Trump announcing his intent to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, college students in California fear this...
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2.4KNina Stack will be the Next Executive Director of the Champlin Foundation
Nina Stack will be the next executive director of the Champlin Foundation. The current president of the Council of New Jersey Grantmakers...
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1.3KFinding the Right Volunteers Through Targeted Recruitment
Volunteer coordinators are often told to develop an elevator speech to use in their efforts to recruit volunteers. An elevator speech is...
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4.5KNew Los Angeles Center Will Be For Transition-age Foster Youth
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Child Guidance Clinic is opening a new facility to expand their efforts to support transition-age foster...
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3.1KLos Angeles Charity Drive Supports Youth Housing
Charities from across Los Angeles County came together on April 15 to donate home goods to underprivileged youth. Led by the Los...
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2.8KA Seat at the Table: African American Youth’s Perception of K-12 Education
The United Negro College Fund used data from a national survey of 1,700 low-income minority youth to craft this report explaining these...
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3.2KHorizons Works, Plays With Low-income Kids to Close Summer Opportunity Gap
Children ran and played on a green lawn just outside the glass walls of Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School in Atlanta recently, as...
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5.0KShawn Escoffery is the New Executive Director of the Roy and Patricia Disney Family Foundation
The Roy and Patricia Disney Family Foundation (RPDFF) has named Shawn Escoffery as its new executive director. He joins RPDFF from the...
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2.7KBryan Stevenson’s Message to Youth Workers: Change Narrative for Kids
At the end of April, Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Institute opened a striking museum and a memorial to 4,400 victims of lynching...
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2.6KMentoring Graduation Coaches Needed for Mass. Students
Massachusetts is considered a leader in education in the country, with the highest standardized test scores and some of the best public...
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3.9KAs Colleges Polarize Politically, Extremists Are Getting Younger
Colleges are becoming ideological battlegrounds. A national survey of freshman students found the incoming 2016 class was the most politically extreme in...
