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5.0KSTEAM in OST, Learning About Multiple Intelligences Will Empower Kids
What if every child had the knowledge that their talents were valuable? They would grow up confident in who they are. They...
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3.4KTexas Report: Deportation Fear Hurts Health of Whole Immigrant Community
Punitive immigration policies create public health issues affecting entire communities, two advocacy groups say in a new report focusing on families in...
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3.5KHarnessing Youth Peer Lines Will Improve Well-being, Mental Health Crisis
There is a crisis of well-being in this country, and it’s felt most poignantly by our youth. One-third of high school students...
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1.6KVaccination Coverage Among Children Aged 19–35 Months – Rates of Unvaccinated Increasing
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used data from the 2017 National Immunization Survey to summarize and assess vaccination coverage across...
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2.7KKathleen P. Enright Announced as New President and CEO of the Council on Foundations
The Council on Foundations has appointed Kathleen P. Enright as its new president and CEO. She will assume the duties at the...
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5.1KState Index to Help Guide Youth Homelessness Work
Here’s a question for you: Does a young person from Kansas deserve to be homeless more than a young person from California?...
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5.3KFor Youth in Sports, Transgender Means Off the Pitch
Keiran Flynn had just finished his junior year at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Ga., when he decided he was ready to...
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2.5KLevels and Trends in Child Mortality Report 2018
The United Nations Interagency Group for Child Mortality Estimation provides the most up-to-date statistics and estimates of child and young adolescent mortality...
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3.2KTrump Policies Hurting Young People of Color, Immigrants Most, Report Says
America’s justice system is reverting to 1960s-style “law-and-order” policies that are exacting a heavy toll on communities of color, especially young people,...
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1.9KCentral American Kids Come To U.S. Fleeing Record-high Youth Murder Rates
Gang violence and expanding criminal networks have made El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala — an area of Central America known as the...
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3.5KAlexandra Chung Rouse is the Houston Endowment’s New Education Program Officer
Alexandra Chung Rouse recently joined the Houston Endowment as its program officer for education, beginning work on Oct. 1, 2018.
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2.5KAfter-school People, the Fed Wants to Help You Teach Financial Literacy
After-school programs looking to teach kids financial literacy can find resources in an unexpected place — the Federal Reserve.
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2.5KPost-traumatic Growth: Hope Is a Strategy, Not a Feeling
When a young person experiences trauma, there is no single answer regarding how that experience may impact them in their later years....
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2.4K2018 State of the States: Expanding Digital Learning to Every Classroom, Every Day
Author(s): EducationSuperHighway Published: October 2018 Report Intro/Brief: “Five years ago, an unprecedented coalition united behind a simple, but important, goal: to improve...
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1.2KTo Avoid a Crisis, Nonprofits Should Prepare and Know Their Mission
The notion that a noble mission and a track record of good deeds can shield an organization and its brand from crisis...
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1.9K‘Career-pathing’ Is How to Retain Millennial After-school Workers, Trainer Says
ATLANTA — Earlier this year, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta changed the way it introduced new workers to the...
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3.5KStephanie Gendell, Leading NY Youth Advocate, Joins NYC’s Admin. for Children Services
Stephanie Gendell has joined New York City’s Administration for Children Services (ACS) as a leader of an affairs team overseen by ACS...
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3.0K‘Opioid Excuse’ for Putting Indiana Kids Into Foster Homes Falls Apart Under Scrutiny
For many years Indiana has been an extreme outlier when it comes to taking children from their families. Year after year, Indiana...
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4.1KLeaders Aren’t Born, They’re Built — at Summer Camp
“Wait. What are we going to do?” The six 12- to 14-year-olds looked at each other as the skies opened up during...
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2.8KThe Color of Youth Transferred to the Adult Criminal Justice System: Policy and Practice Recommendations
This report published by CFYJ shows how, despite reforms, black youth disproportionately end up in the adult justice system and what can...
