A new study from the Children’s Bureau in the federal Department of Health and Human Services reveals some shocking findings. It turns...
Youth Participatory Evaluation (YPE) is the involvement of young people in monitoring and evaluation practices and processes, including planning, data collection, analysis...
One Atlanta organization is taking steps to make sure disability issues are being heard and considered at Georgia’s 40-day legislative session. For about...
Ever heard of a state or county “independent living coordinator?” I have and I’m fascinated by the near-mythical role they play as they...
The National 4-H Council recently announced the appointment of Ivan Heredia as its new senior vice president and chief marketing officer.
In 2013, while I was in college at the University of Arizona based in Tucson, I had the opportunity to participate in...
The Juvenile Law Center discusses the oft-overlooked role that municipal courts play in harming the prospects of American youth through unnecessary incarcerations...
In Philadelphia and in cities across the country, thousands of youth are engaged in purposeful internships, summer work programs and OST programs...
COVID-19 has greatly altered the lives of our youth. Few, if any, high students have attended school under the same circumstances as...
In Atlanta, the center of the South’s burgeoning film industry, a small nonprofit is bringing digital media and film-making skills to young...
MONKEYBUSINESSIMAGES/SHUTTERSTOCK Apprenticeship programs could soon expand in the United States, opening up more pathways for young people to earn while they learn....
Not long after graduating from Lakeside High School in Atlanta, Yabsira Gebrewubet found himself working at a Publix grocery store in the...
A group of student activists ages 14 to 25 is urging the Biden administration and Congress to create a plan for youth...
The course isn’t really training; it’s an exercise in propaganda and paranoia designed to encourage you to report based on little more...
When Michael Khanlarian began teaching incarcerated youth about the work of William Shakespeare, he never expected them to develop a rap about...
Throughout our work in youth programs and critical educational spaces, we have witnessed how educators, mentors and facilitators committed to liberatory learning...
The Sentencing Project releases a new report discussing how stark racial disparities in the juvenile justice system remain relatively unchanged even as...
A pregnant teenager stands alone in a cinder-block cell in one image. In another, a young body shivers, curled up in an...
An essential resource for professionals in the child welfare field are the voices of those with lived experience who are willing to...
While awareness of sex trafficking has grown, too little attention is given to how this terrible violence impacts girls of color. In...