“I had no idea there were so many different types of engineering.” I hear this kind of statement from students every year....
High school sophomores and juniors were challenged to apply the communication, project management and community mapping skills they’d learned in ServiceWorks to...
When youth and young adults are provided a platform that empowers them to be changemakers within their community, they begin to realize...
Thomas Rajan, senior vice president of strategic leadership development for Boys and Girls Clubs of America, spoke with Youth Today’s Resource Hub...
Ellen Gannett is director of the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST) at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College. NIOST...
Tony Streit, principal investigator for National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment spoke with Youth Today’s Resource Hub editor Sara Hill about...
Young people commit — in writing — to a grade they will earn for each class. The better they perform, the higher...
Hunger in America is not so much a lack of access to food; it’s a lack of access to nutrition. School-based programs...
As we gear up for summer programming, camp directors and staff who attended the American Camp Association conference in Atlanta last week...
Youth Today asked attendees of the National Black Child Development Institute’s annual conference earlier this year about the a recent time they...
The room was silent. Twelve probation officers sat silently in a circle. Some glared at the floor, some looked at the ceiling....
How can we expect young people who are worried about where they will sleep that night, where their next meal will come...
Children who participate in Doc Wayne’s Chalk Talk program are most often survivors of complex trauma. According to the National Alliance on...
As part of National Substance Abuse Prevention Month, peer educators and adult supporters at GUIDE in Georgia speak up about the impact...
Our 100 Peace Builder teens’ reach of 4,000 of their peers and some adults through connection circles taught me that “each one...
Who better to describe what it’s like growing up in San Francisco’s so-called underbelly than the young people who live there?
We have found running our national youth advisory board to be essential to our work.
Mason faces underlying and persistent tribulation most of his peers don’t: his citizenship status and the legal, financial and psychological barriers that...
In honor of National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day on April 10, three Atlanta-area organizations hosted Healthy Sex, Healthy Futures, an...
Good Shepherd Services is a New York City nonprofit serving about 2,700 K-8th graders through 27 afterschool programs located in low income...