Youth Today
From the Bureaus
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2.6KNew York City Leader Wins National Child Welfare Award
The commissioner of New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) has won the 2019 Excellence for Children Leadership Award by Casey...
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8.0KHow Homelessness Crisis in LA Affects Aged-out Foster Youth
Doniesha Thomas is in her bedroom, crouching on the floor and peering into a pet carrier that appears empty. “He’s in there,...
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3.1KTrauma of Her Violent Arrest Lingers, Even As Young New Yorker Beats the System
After it happened, the beating, the arrest, the sudden violence on the way to school, the high school sophomore wasn’t the same.
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3.2KArrested for Not Carrying an ID on Way to High School, Young New Yorker Opts to Fight
Mariah Charles woke up on Tuesday faced with a difficult decision. Does she take a plea to a crime she didn’t commit...
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2.9K2 Years of Youth Coverage from U. of Southern California
Teen homelessness. Gun control. After-school funding. For two years, students at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism...
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5.0KLA Foster Families Suffer As Stipends Are Delayed By Bottleneck in Foster Reform
Destiny Adams was driving on Balboa Boulevard, on the way to visit her two younger sisters, when she got the call.
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2.7KYoung Family of Prisoners Find Safe Space at POPS in LA High Schools
It’s lunchtime on a recent Wednesday at Venice High School. Twenty or so students are sitting at their desks with full plates...
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2.7KFewer DACA Students Enrolling in California Colleges
With President Donald Trump announcing his intent to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, college students in California fear this...
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4.4KNew Los Angeles Center Will Be For Transition-age Foster Youth
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Child Guidance Clinic is opening a new facility to expand their efforts to support transition-age foster...
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3.0KLos Angeles Charity Drive Supports Youth Housing
Charities from across Los Angeles County came together on April 15 to donate home goods to underprivileged youth. Led by the Los...
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3.7KAs Colleges Polarize Politically, Extremists Are Getting Younger
Colleges are becoming ideological battlegrounds. A national survey of freshman students found the incoming 2016 class was the most politically extreme in...
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3.0KBrooklyn Students Use ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ to Explore Solutions to Gun Violence
It’s early evening on a warm Tuesday in March, and a handful of teenagers are commanding rapt attention in a corner of...
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3.8KLos Angeles Housing Patterns That Reinforced Segregation Reverberate to This Day
Land remains the starkest turf of bigotry in American life. Blacks have been kept out, locked in, preyed upon and segregated by...
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5.8KLos Angeles’ Vast Child Welfare System Has a Lot to Teach Rest of Nation
You can only find the entrance to the RightWay Foundation if you’re really looking for it. Hidden deep within the parking structure...
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6.7KLos Angeles School District Fighting Trauma With Wellness Centers
It is the second-largest school district in the nation with more than 640,000 students enrolled. It spans more than 720 square miles,...
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6.4KFor Underdog High School Football Team in Harlem, Fight Is a Way of Life
The weight room inside Frederick Douglass Academy in East Harlem, New York is nothing more than a repurposed classroom. The ceiling is...
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1.8KAlton Sterling Decision Shreds Last Bit of Trust in Police, Community Says
It is easy to imagine that the scene Thursday afternoon in front of the Triple S Food Mart on North Foster Drive...
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2.4KMarch for Our Lives Is Turning Point for Lifelong Activist, Energized Teen
The soon-to-be marchers, many of them teenagers, stood in the dark, shivering in the bitter cold, bracing against brutal winds howling off...
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2.9KThey’re Working to Reform Juvenile Justice With an ‘Art Attack’
The pianist jammed on the Steinway with such force, he stood up to play it. The rest of the orchestra swayed with...
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3.5KNY Students Quick to Throw Themselves Into March Organizing
It was late in the evening on Feb. 16 when Joey Wong’s flight from La Guardia Airport in New York City landed...
