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Only Death Ends the Rescue Fantasy for Clinician — At First

From training to practicing to now teaching, one of the key factors in psychotherapy that continually surfaces is countertransference (sorry self-care), which...

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Being a Kin Caregiver Is More Complicated Than Just Helping Family

What comes to mind when you hear the term foster care? More than likely, it is not the placement of children with...

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Head of Florida Center That Helps Girls ‘in Trouble’ Stepping Down

She’s credited with being a “visionary,” “a role model” and a literal life-saver for some of the most vulnerable girls and young...

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Boy Scouts Bankruptcy Dismaying To Some In Youth Development

When Boy Scouts of America announced on Tuesday that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, youth development professionals had various responses....

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The State Index on Youth Homelessness

True Colors United looks at 61 metrics in all 50 states to provide an overview of the challenges and barriers homeless youth...

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High Staff Turnover Affects Kids in After-school Programs

Many out-of-school time programs experience frequent staff turnover, to the chagrin of leaders in the field. Some estimates put the turnover rate...

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Change in Washington Law Helps Parents With Their Teens’ Mental Health Needs

For about three months, Karen Kelly would drive around Enumclaw, Wash., after midnight looking for her 13-year-old daughter, Hollie. She carried Hollie’s...

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What’s Typical About Youth Sexuality, What’s Not, How To Know The Difference

When it comes to child development we have tons of information about how kids’ social, emotional, physical, spiritual and intellectual abilities grow...

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Neoliberal Systems Undermine Ability to Serve Youth Of Color After School: Author

Leah Davis remembers the first brochure she saw for the after-school and college prep program Educational Excellence.

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New Mexican Indigenous Foster Youth May Have Different Definition of Success

“You just don’t get it! When I emancipate I don’t want to move away and go off to college. I’m going back...

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Suicidality Disparities by Sexual Identity Persist from Adolescence into Young Adulthood

The Trevor Project tracks rates of suicidality among LGB youth after turning 18, showing that the stark suicide disparity between straight and...

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Mentoring Foster Youth Is High-impact, Low-cost But Rare, Institute Says

Born to a prostitute with a drug problem, April (a pseudonym for her privacy) was removed from her home about two decades...

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Trump Budget Would Again Ax After-school Programs Despite Strong Congressional Support

Two months after Congress approved $1.25 billion for after-school funding, the White House has again called for a complete kill-off of the...

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Carlsbad Center Partnering With Eddy County CASA to Serve More Young People

It was a bleak time for many foster youth and their families in need when Kids’ Safehouse ceased operations in January 2015,...

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CYFD Forging Ahead With Native American Court, Kinship Care

It’s nearing the close of normal business hours on a Wednesday afternoon at the Albuquerque, N.M., offices of the Children, Youth and...

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Las Cruces Expanding ‘One-stop Shop’ of Services at Community School to Another

Before Kasandra A. Gandara first became a member of the Las Cruces City Council, she was in the trenches as a case...

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McKinley County Could Benefit From New Court For Tribes

Rhonda Goodenough, an employee of the Children, Youth and Families Department in McKinley County for more than 15 years, claims that she...

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Native American Court to Run Under Bigger Concept of Family

It’s already tough sledding for New Mexico children and families in the state’s fractured foster care and child welfare systems. Those challenges...

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Impact of Community Collaborations on Youth Unclear But Promising, Report Says

Can communities improve educational equity by collaborating across agencies? The idea of cross-sector collaboration caught fire in 2011 after an article in...

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U.S. Homeless Student Population: Federal Data Summary for Years 2015-2018

The National Center for Homeless Education compiles and presents data on the numbers of homeless students attending schools across the country, showing...