Youth Today
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2.0KYoung Activists, CLASP Call For New Deal To Get Youth Jobs
A group of student activists ages 14 to 25 is urging the Biden administration and Congress to create a plan for youth...
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6.9KI Took a ‘Mandated Reporter’ Training Course On Child Abuse
The course isn’t really training; it’s an exercise in propaganda and paranoia designed to encourage you to report based on little more...
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361Shakespeare Part Of Enrichment For Incarcerated Youth In One Tennessee County
When Michael Khanlarian began teaching incarcerated youth about the work of William Shakespeare, he never expected them to develop a rap about...
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4.3KTinkering Afterschool Program Demonstrates Moving Beyond Binary of Adult- Versus Child-centered Education
Throughout our work in youth programs and critical educational spaces, we have witnessed how educators, mentors and facilitators committed to liberatory learning...
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1.6KRacial Disparities in Youth Incarceration Persist
The Sentencing Project releases a new report discussing how stark racial disparities in the juvenile justice system remain relatively unchanged even as...
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323Reforming Juvenile System For Girls Requires Stories, Three Experts Say
A pregnant teenager stands alone in a cinder-block cell in one image. In another, a young body shivers, curled up in an...
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2.5KA Former Foster Youth Is Contributing To National Initiative On Child Abuse, Neglect
An essential resource for professionals in the child welfare field are the voices of those with lived experience who are willing to...
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7.7KGirls of Color, Native Girls Have Been Sex Trafficked Since Colonization, Slavery
While awareness of sex trafficking has grown, too little attention is given to how this terrible violence impacts girls of color. In...
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2.0KAs States Struggle With Budget Cuts, After-school Advocates In NY Push Back
Across the nation, states are tightening their belts as the pandemic cuts into their budgets. Some are feeling a financial shock similar...
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3.0KHow Organizations Can Build Resilience Into Education And Career Pathways
Fear. Loss. Uncertainty. Isolation. Many fear that the pandemic will result in a new “Lost Generation.” The impact of COVID-19 is particularly...
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2.8KNYPD Disproportionately Restrains Students Of Color During School Crises, New York City Agency Data Shows
Over 1,500 students were restrained by school safety agents of the NYPD from the first quarter of 2019 through the first quarter...
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2.8KBehavioral Challenges Can Push Youth With Disabilities Into School-to-Prison Pipeline
Who are youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD)? The population of youth with IDD is vast. In 2018-19, the number of...
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4.1KMassachusetts Must Focus On Root Causes Of Gun Violence: Racial, Economic Disparity
The year 2020 will be remembered as a year of great upheaval in the United States, with so many lives and communities...
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2.5KCalifornia Nonprofit Calls On Companies To Offer Foster Youth Internships
In 2020, Tom Fandre had hoped to place at least 90 foster youth in internships in the Silicon Valley area. But when...
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2.6KThe Top 10 Ways To Help Kids Beat Stress In 2021
For many kids, this is all they know. Their entire lives have been defined by unrelenting, unprecedented times. Today’s kids are growing...
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1.6KBiden Must Integrate Developmental Relationships Into Training Plans For Young People
Making relationships a focus of federal policy is long overdue given that decades of research have shown that relationships are the critical...
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1.5KOverlooked and Under-Connected: Exploring Disparities in Digital Skill Levels Among Older Youth of Color in the US
Researchers at the Urban Institute discuss the stark racial disparities in digital skill levels of youth ages 16-24.
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2.9KService Learning Makes Online Learning Meaningful and Engaging
During distance learning youth can feel disconnected from their educators, their peers and the content of what they are learning. Service learning...
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3.0KWe Need To Teach Consent Skills To Youth Early
Normative relationships are based on the assumption that individuals are capable of making decisions for themselves. When that individual is a minor...
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3.8KI’m a Former Foster Youth; How a Few Words From My Attorney Changed My Life
My name is Cristal and I am a former foster youth from Bakersfield, California. I spent about 11 years in the Kern...
