Youth Today
From the Bureaus
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2.4KTraumatized, Locked Up, LA Girls Starting to Get More Help
Moriah Barrett, then 14, woke up to burns on her body one night along with physical evidence that she had been raped....
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11.6KAfter 5 Decades, Ruby Bridges Gets Applause Instead of Death Threats in School
The hateful words drew gasps from the audience, pulling them back to 1960, hitting them head-on as the burly white U.S. Marshals...
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1.7KHead of LA’s New Office of Child Protection Sees Big Challenge With No Specific Authority
Michael Nash’s 30-year career as a jurist has mostly been focused on trying to make life better for Los Angeles County’s children....
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1.9KRunaway and Cast Off: One LGBT Teen’s Story
Since he was 16, Ivan Cabrera has been spending time at New Alternatives, a drop-in center for 16- to 24-year-olds who identify...
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1.4KBiggest Obstacles To HIV Treatment Aren’t Medical, Doctor Says
“About 50 percent of the patients we get are Latino males,” said Belzer. “Then another 35 to 40 percent are African-American [males]....
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1.4KBrooklyn Youth Justice in the Hands of Teens
The Red Hook Youth Court trains teens to serve as jurors and judges to handle real-life low-level misdemeanors committed by their peers....
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2.5KThe Credible Messengers: Youth Organize to Save Our Streets
Youth Organizing to Save Our Streets trains teens to be leaders and organizers in their neighborhood and mentors them on how to...
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2.2KTeens Work With Legislators to Bring Change
The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate and the largest prison population of any country in the world. On any given day,...
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1.7KIn Brooklyn, Green Space With Nowhere to Play
NEW YORK — Down a long hallway, through electric blue double doors, the squeaks of young people’s sneakers echoed from P.S. K753’s...
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2.5KAt Senn High School, Diversity Drives Education
“We have to get creative,” Lofton said. “There is no teacher that we could possibly find that could deliver ESL education as...
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1.4KTrying to Get Their Code On in the South Bronx
NEW YORK — On a freezing Saturday morning in a brick building in the south Bronx, young people with laptops filled a...
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1.1KNew Orleans Filmmaker Hopes to Get the ‘91%’ Out of Movie Seats, Into Ballot Box
NEW YORK — The filmmaker could not get the number out of his head. Even while he was traveling the country to...
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3.0KAn Underdog Sport in NY, Wrestling Helps Students Score Better Grades
“Myself and most of our teachers, we were thinking about wrestling like Hulk Hogan or Andre the Giant,” said assistant principal Tommy...
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1.2KJuggling Child Care, Other People’s Big Families and Toxic Chemicals
NEW YORK — The women wait on an exposed street corner above the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway at the intersection of Marcy and Division...
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2.8KMany Former Foster Youth Unaware of New Health Care Benefits
NEW YORK — Torren McIntyre steadies his feet on the corner of Erasmus Street and Nostrand Avenue in central Brooklyn and forces...
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2.4KYoung Family Caregivers Face Many Struggles, Get Little Support
When Keyona Vincent was a senior in high school, she dropped out. She wasn’t pregnant or on drugs. She didn’t have any...
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1.0KYoga, Meditation Lessons Work for Some Teens
NEW YORK — On a sunny school day last year, the last thing 20 teenagers seemed interested in was a yoga class....
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1.2KWhat Awaits Unaccompanied Minors in New York
Angelica is one of the lucky ones. A "smart and bubbly" 8-year-old Honduran girl who "loves, loves, loves math," according to the...
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2.3KBoat-building in the Bronx
Inside a brick building, with wooden floors splattered with paint, sawdust in the air and loud power tools, teenagers in goggles bang...
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1.3KNew York After-school Program Takes a Hands-on Approach
NEW YORK — In a sunny room in the Banknote building, a facility in the South Bronx that once printed stamps and...
