During a recent visit to a large urban park a few miles from his home in Tulsa, 17-year-old Shahrukh Khalilbeak pushed his...
New Mexico’s child protective services department is set to receive a funding boost officials say will be used to improve services for...
For more than 40 years, teen courts across the 50 states have proven their success at letting high school students — serving...
Dr. Hussein Abdul-Latif spent the last week typing out prescription refills for his young transgender patients, trying to make sure they had...
The message seems simple: Anyone can get most, or even all, of their tuition paid through the state’s signature college scholarship program....
The coronavirus pandemic has upended the lives of young people and the programs that serve them, but some out-of-school time organizations have...
More than a year after she witnessed a gunman kill three fellow students and injure five others in her Parkland classroom, Eden...
The main athletic association for Georgia high schools voted Wednesday to ban transgender boys and girls from playing on the school sports...
After a four-wheeler accident left her paralyzed, Angel Taylor was struggling. The then-14-year-old was lonely, in pain and still adjusting to maneuvering...
Throughout my final years of high school and college, I was homeless and on my own, without a parent or guardian to...
Children who begin identifying as transgender at a young age tend to retain that identity at least for several years, a study...
A new report from UNICEF and Western Sydney University creates a framework for the design of children's digital experiences with well-being and...
Maya Chupkov, a woman who stutters, produces and hosts "Proud Stutter," a podcast about shifting the narrative around stuttering. She shares some...
Democratic lawmakers in more than a dozen states are following California's lead in seeking to offer legal refuge to displaced transgender youth...
Inside a cavernous stone fortress in downtown Pittsburgh, attorney Robin Frank defends parents at one of their lowest points – when they...
Between Jan. 1, 2022, and April 25, 2022, Little Rock, Ark. — the 24th most violent of 65 cities, according to the...
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken its toll on teens, accelerating the declines in youth mental health that were evident before the pandemic....
Several civil rights groups are suing South Carolina over conditions at its juvenile lockups, alleging that children in state custody are subject...
Georgia plans to launch a new program this summer intended to prevent children from entering the foster care system. The $1.5 million...
A smaller portion of U.S. children got routine vaccinations required for kindergarten during the pandemic, government researchers said Thursday, raising concerns that...