Youth Today
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2.5KWe Connected Former Gang Members, Clergy, Community and Police to Fight Violence
In the city of Stockton, Calif., gun violence was already notably on the rise in 2011 because of a series of compounding...
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1.5KOur Jacksonville Partnerships, Social Structure Help Give People Second Chances
When we began our journey to rebuild broken urban communities in our city, Jacksonville, Fla., 20 years ago, little did we know...
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3.3KPower of Youth Challenge Fuels Solutions Like College Prep, Blue Lollipops
When Isaac Espinal was in the eighth grade in Fort Worth, Texas, he compared his local public school with a nearby private...
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3.8KWhere Are LGBTQ Youth in Gun Violence Conversation?
Jerel’s story is one of many tales of hate, anger, pain and violence that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer youth face...
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8.4KBook Makes Strong Case For Free Play: Will After-school Field Take Note?
Several years ago when Pasi Sahlberg was a visiting professor of practice at Harvard, he took his young son to visit a...
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1.6KSpecialized Case Management for Young Adults in Extended Federal Foster Care
Researchers at the Urban Institute discuss the policies and practices best suited for meeting the needs of foster youth through the age...
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1.8KQ&A with Alicia Philipp: Atlanta Foundation Does Much More Than Award Grants
Alicia Philipp has led the Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta for almost 40 years and will retire in early 2020. She spoke...
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4.7KHow One Philadelphia After-school Program Works to Be Trauma-informed
On an afternoon in October, kids in the Sunrise of Philadelphia after-school program made tissue-paper marigolds, assembled little altars and created masks....
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2.6KAvoid Simplistic Thinking About Trauma-informed Care, Some Say
As the effort to be trauma informed sweeps across youth-serving agencies, some who research and treat trauma are urging people to think...
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2.7KLA’s BEST Sees Increase in Mental Health Issues, Responds with a Focus on Trauma
The increase of mental health problems in kids is one of the reasons LA’s Best, an after-school provider serving 25,000 children in...
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2.6KEstimated Proportion of Adult Health Problems Attributable to Adverse Childhood Experiences & Implications for Prevention
The CDC quantifies the effects that adverse childhood experiences have on one's health and socioeconomic outcomes through to adulthood. The report makes...
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1.8KEqualize Access to Summer Activities, National Academy of Sciences Advises
Summertime can either reinforce or redress the inequalities that exist for young people. That’s one takeaway from the National Academy of Sciences’...
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1.9KCalifornia Partnerships Helping Reduce Gun Violence, Incarceration
California has comprehensively strengthened its gun safety laws over the past 25 years and is now generally considered to have the strongest...
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2.3KMonique Cox Announced as Urban Alliance’s Baltimore Executive Director
Urban Alliance announces the appointment of Monique Cox as executive director of its Baltimore region.
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2.2KWe Can Reduce Suicides By Gun With Right Policies
Nearly two-thirds of all gun deaths in this country are self-inflicted, according to an average from 2013 to 2017. In other words,...
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3.2KNew SEL Curriculum Intended to Help Youth Focus Attention, Develop Compassion
Many social and emotional learning models exist, but a new one introduced this year involved the Dalai Lama. The leader of Tibetan...
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4.6KTo Help Foster Youth With Education, More Data, Analysis Needed, Experts Say
Nine percent of foster youth who are in middle school in New York City are proficient in math compared to approximately 40%...
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2.0KOther Cities Note How Denver Turned Marijuana Into Money for After-school Programs
The green skunky smell of lushly growing marijuana fills the air as drivers travel down the highway leading from Denver International Airport...
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1.9KAnnual Conference Nourishes Florida Restorative Justice
Formed in 2013 and established as a 501(c)3 nonprofit in 2014, the Florida Restorative Justice Association (FRJA) is the only entity in...
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3.0KHere’s HOPE for Restorative Practices in the Child Welfare System
When we hear the words restorative justice, there is often a connection with the criminal justice system. But what if we brought...
