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3.6KHousing Help Can Be a Child Welfare Intervention
Imagine being a parent who, despite your best efforts, cannot afford safe and adequate housing. Imagine that because of low earning power,...
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1.8KBalancing Work and Learning: Implications for Low-Income Students
The Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University looks at the unique challenges low-income students face as they work through...
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2.1KLauren Snelling Appointed Senior Director of Alumni Programs at the National YoungArts Foundation
The National YoungArts Foundation recently appointed Lauren Snelling as senior director for alumni programming. Snelling will work with the president and CEO,...
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3.0KReplace OST ‘Exclusionary Discipline’ With Better Practices, Report Urges
When school started in Tulsa, Okla., on Aug. 22, something new happened at five elementary schools. The schools and their YMCA after-school...
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2.3KYou Must Hold Up the Mirror to Truly Work on Equity in Your Organization
Do you recall the last diversity training you attended? If it was a good one, maybe you do because you gained some...
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19.7KCAPTA Law Codifies Everything Wrong With How We ‘Fight’ Child Abuse
Elizabeth Eden chose the wrong morning to eat a poppy seed bagel for breakfast. Then she chose the wrong hospital to give...
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2.8KProgram Quality Goes to Summer Camp, Where It Belongs
Think about the last time you had a quality customer service experience — was it at a store? On vacation? Over the...
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1.8KThe Price of Justice: The High Cost of “Free” Counsel for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
This report from the Juvenile Law Center shows how numerous states across the nation permit or even require the cost of court-appointed...
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2.0KTeens’ Brains May Be Molded by Living With Neighborhood Violence
Flinching as a gunshot whizzes past your window. Covering your ears when a police car races down your street, sirens blaring. Walking...
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2.8KSandra Gasca-Gonzalez is New VP of the Center for Systems Innovation at the Annie E. Casey Foundation
Sandra Gasca-Gonzalez has been appointed vice president of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s (AECF) Center for Systems Innovation.
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2.2K‘Radically Interactive’ STEM Course Teaches the After-school Teachers
After-school programs are increasingly expected to teach science, technology, engineering and math, but staff often have little training. How do after-school staff...
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3.7KMentors, Here’s What Kids Around the World Need Most
As a private school, most of the students came from wealthier families. During my time there, I also helped feed and plan...
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4.8KSurveys Driven by Homeless Youth Show Others Undercount, Chapin Hall Report Finds
Researchers at the University of Chicago's Chapin Hall have found that traditional homelessness surveys seem to miss large swaths of young people....
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2.5KCoach for Confidence, not Compliance
As I emerge from the train station in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District, my senses are overwhelmed with the sights,...
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3.4KI’m a Teen: How Can I Tell Who’s Joking, Who’s Crying for Help
The nation’s conversation about mental illness and school shootings has changed the way I listen to my classmates.
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2.1KHorizon Report: 2018 Higher Education Edition
Educause and the New Media Consotium take a look at the future of technology adoption and education practice changes in higher education.
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2.5KDon Chen Selected as the Surdna Foundation’s Next President
The Surdna Foundation has announced the selection of Don Chen as its third president. He succeeds outgoing president, Phillip Henderson.
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3.9KNetwork Model of Emotional Peer Support Groups Eases Stress for Foster Parents, Staff
Here at Graham Windham, a youth development and family organization located in New York City, we rely heavily on data and ways...
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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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1.4KCulture of Trust Is Key for School Safety
When we first visited the school that is the focus of our forthcoming book, “Navigating Conflict: How Youth Handle Trouble in a...
