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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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2.7KA Seat at the Table: African American Youth’s Perception of K-12 Education
The United Negro College Fund used data from a national survey of 1,700 low-income minority youth to craft this report explaining these...
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3.1KHorizons Works, Plays With Low-income Kids to Close Summer Opportunity Gap
Children ran and played on a green lawn just outside the glass walls of Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School in Atlanta recently, as...
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4.9KShawn Escoffery is the New Executive Director of the Roy and Patricia Disney Family Foundation
The Roy and Patricia Disney Family Foundation (RPDFF) has named Shawn Escoffery as its new executive director. He joins RPDFF from the...
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2.7KBryan Stevenson’s Message to Youth Workers: Change Narrative for Kids
At the end of April, Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Institute opened a striking museum and a memorial to 4,400 victims of lynching...
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2.6KMentoring Graduation Coaches Needed for Mass. Students
Massachusetts is considered a leader in education in the country, with the highest standardized test scores and some of the best public...
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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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6.1KThe Department of Child and Family Services Mostly Failed Me, But Still I Persist
I was in the Department of Child and Family Services foster care system for nine years of my life. It was my...
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1.9KNew Zealand’s Youth Justice Transformation: Lessons for the U.S.
The National Juvenile Justice Network takes a look at the successes of New Zealand's juvenile justice system and discusses how the United...
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2.0KTraining, Connections, Better Benefits: What Young Staffers in Youth Organizations Want
Youth-serving organizations are often staffed by young adults whose outlook and circumstances are different from that of their older colleagues. Sometimes young...
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3.7KCarrie Johnson is the Recipient of the National Juvenile Defender Center’s Inaugural Norman Dorsen Award
The National Juvenile Defender Center (NJDC) has announced that Carrie Johnson will be recognized with the inaugural Norman Dorsen Award in recognition...
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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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3.1KHow to Recruit, Retain Kids for Voluntary Summer Learning
Leaders of summer learning programs who are now reaching out to enroll kids often have to deal with a high no-show rate.
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2.1KYouth Leaders Need Extra Thought, Sensitivity to Help the Young Enjoy Outdoors
The next generation is responsible for protecting an environment that they may not know how to connect with. As someone who sees...
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2.2KMinority Youth and Community Support Grants
Subject: Disadvantaged Youth, Minority Youth, Race/Ethnicity, Community Development, Youth Violence, Safety, Youth Welfare | Deadline: May 24, 2018 | Amount: $25,000 - $500,000
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1.7KRestorative Justice Even Works With the Big Bad Wolf, Training Shows
The first lightbulb moment for me was when I got to attend a restorative justice training for high school students in Seattle.
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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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3.5KLGBTQ Youth More Likely to Become Homeless, Latest Chapin Hall Report Finds
Lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual and queer youths have nearly double the risk of winding up homeless as their straight peers — and...
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4.6KDr. Amy Pollack is the Next Director of Maternal, Newborn & Child Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Dr. Amy Pollack, MD, FACOG, FACPM will be the new director of maternal, newborn & child health at the Bill & Melinda...
