Youth Today
口 Feature Story
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2.0KAnalysts Propose Racial Equity in Youth Probation
Structural racism drives harsher treatment of Black youth, who are more likely than white youth to be arrested, incarcerated, placed on probation...
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2.0KCommittee to Consider Change to Bill Targeting Trans Youth
The Montana Legislature may consider changes to a measure that would ban transgender athletes from participating in school and college sports according...
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2.9KMany Say Now is the Time to Fight Racial Bias in Foster Care
LIDERINA/SHUTTERSTOCK Cheri Williams looks back with regret at the start of her career as a child welfare caseworker in 1998. Systemic racism...
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2.1KPlaying Through a Pandemic: Youth Sports and COVID
The C.S. Mott Children's Hospital uses its National Poll on Children's Health to take a look at how parents across the country...
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2.2KDisability Service Providers Get Creative As Pandemic Threatens Programs
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit last year, Wichita, Kansas, nurse Heather McFann was at a loss as to what to do for...
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1.8KCourt: New York City Must Give All Homeless Shelters Wi-Fi
New York City must finish installing Wi-Fi in shelters for homeless families and domestic violence victims by Aug. 31, according to a...
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5.4KWe Are Terrified Police in Our Schools Will Harm Us
LEV RADIN/SHUTTERSTOCK Every day, I walk into school greeted with silencing stares from armed police officers. They’re not facing the windows or...
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1.1KWith New Aid, Schools Seek Solutions To Problems New and Old
With a massive infusion of federal aid coming their way, schools across the U.S. are weighing how to use the windfall to...
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1.2KSurvey: Even As Schools Reopen, Many Students Learn Remotely
Large numbers of students are not returning to the classroom even as more schools reopen for full-time, in-person learning, according to a...
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1.6KEstimates and Projections of COVID-19 and Parental Death in the US
Researchers estimate and project the number of excess parental deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss the policy and practice reforms that...
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1.5KArrested Learning: A Survey of Youth Experiences of Police and Security at School
A new report uses results from a national survey of students to discuss the experiences they have with police in their schools.
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2.4KMarginalized Youth Need Real Change in Schools, Courts, Other Systems
Black and brown students are caught in a system that does not educate or rehabilitate them. We punish them for their failure...
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2.9KYoung People Have Trouble Convincing Health Care Providers of Their Chronic Pain
Natalie Linn has lived with chronic pain since she was in first grade. Her flares all but disappeared for a decade then...
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3.8KEffective Tutoring: Out-of-school Time Providers Need To Know What Works
In the coming months, after-school and summer learning programs will be partnering with schools to address learning loss in the pandemic. Tutoring will...
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1.5KLGBTQ Youth in the Workplace
The Trevor Project uses data from its 2020 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health to examine and discuss the experiences of...
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1.8KFinding Your North Star: How Nonprofits Can Develop an Effective Mission Statement
All child welfare organizations are on a mission, whether it’s supporting children’s health, protecting them from violence or reducing systemic inequities that...
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2.8KAmerican Rescue Plan Gives Out-of-school Time Programs Big Role in Pandemic Recovery,OST Reporting Project
The latest COVID-19 relief package, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, includes a huge chunk of money to benefit young people. Of...
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3.9KASFA’s Timelines Are Horrible For Children But Another Part Of The Law Is Even Worse
“ASFA has been responsible for the massive destruction of black and brown families. More than 2 million children’s parents’ rights have been...
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3.3KHaving a Mentor With the Same Disability Is Important, Young People and Research Agree
Hannah Weitzman is almost 10 and the only kid with hearing loss in her neighborhood in Chappaqua, New York. When her family...
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3.2KRestorative Justice Is Used to Legitimize Oppressive Systems
The practices and approaches the Western world today refers to as “restorative justice” have roots in indigenous, including indigenous African, peacemaking and...
