Youth Today
From the Bureaus
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2.4KYoung People Suing Government, Oil Industry Over Climate Change Rally
Coreal Riday-White is an attorney working to hold the U.S. government and the oil industry responsible for climate change, a case that...
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1.6KYouth Today Reporter Wins Award for Social Justice Coverage
Karen Savage, a recent New York-based reporter for JJIE and Youth Today, has received The Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for Social Justice...
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4.1KTeen Girls’ Photos Raise Awareness of Health Disparities
“Where you live, where you go to school, the amenities in your community, all those things matter to community health.” Beatriz Solis,...
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1.3KMore Families Struggling to Feed Children Reach Out for Help in Queens
Three weeks after Thanksgiving, Rosana Borges sat at her dining room table and picked at the last piece of turkey in a...
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1.8KActivists Hopeful ‘Torture’ of NY Teens Ends With Passage of Raise the Age Legislation This Year
Alicia Barraza started her testimony with statistics. Sixteen- and 17-year-olds who serve time in New York’s adult facilities are twice as likely...
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1.1KOrganizations That Provide Creative Escape From Prison Start to Connect
Life prospects appeared bleak for 17-year-old Terrance Williams on a quiet Saturday in the spring of 2013.
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1.7KA Civil Rights Movement Grows in Brooklyn
Two meetings last week, one in a ragged community center across the street from a waterfront Brooklyn housing project, the other in...
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3.7KCommunity-based Organization Battles Chronic Absenteeism in Queens
It was 40 degrees and drizzling, and it would not be easy to get the kids to school today.
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Children Will Continue to Flee Danger, Expert Says
In all her years working with Unaccompanied Alien Children, one interaction in particular stands out to Michelle Brané, the director of migrant...
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1.5KTrump Administration Could Target Central American Teens
After 18 days on a bus to the Mexican city of Reynosa, five days walking through the desert to Texas and two...
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3.3KLA Center Fills a Gap for Health, Mental Health and Other Services Specifically for LGBT Youth
Growing up on the tough South Side of Chicago, Richard never felt comfortable around people because he never felt normal as a...
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3.3KGirls Gain Social-Emotional Skills As Queens of Lacrosse
The first time Joseph Albines saw the object that became symbolic of his life was in the 1980s. His older brother brought...
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2.3KNY High School Students Abandon Classes to Protest Trump, Vow ‘We Vote Next’
A cold rain didn't dampen the energy of several hundred New York City high school students who walked out of classes on...
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4.2KUrban Gardening Connects Youth with Health, History, Humanity
You could call it a story of two gardens. The Learning Garden was established in 2002, planted and maintained by a mix...
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3.1KIncarcerated Youth and Their Families: Human Just Like Everyone Else
Watching my brother go to jail opened my eyes to the fact that I want to help and work with youth who...
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1.5KFamilies of Inmates: A Photographer’s Focus at Rikers Island
Every day an estimated 1,500 family members and friends of those incarcerated on New York’s Rikers Island visit their loved ones. For...
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2.1KYoung People Protest Trump’s Immigration Order
Carley Moore, author and clinical professor of liberal studies at NYU, is not surprised that young people are taking the lead. “There’s...
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2.9KNonprofit Art School Helps Youth Thrive in Skid Row, Los Angeles
Nestled among nondescript warehouses and infamous streets, Inner-City Arts in Downtown Los Angeles’ Skid Row is an oasis for artistic growth and...
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1.8KBookstore’s Closing Leaves Bronx Residents Disrupted and Nostalgic
At the end of the year, Barnes & Noble in the Bronx will close, leaving a borough of more than 1.4 million...
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2.6KBarry Krisberg on Where Juvenile Justice Goes From Here Under a Trump Administration
Barry Krisberg has been advocating for progressive reform in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems since the late 1960s. He has...
