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2.8KA Year of VISTA Service: Five Lessons for Nonprofit Practitioners and Other Service Members
Derek Moore and Nicole Smith completed their AmeriCorps VISTA service this week. During their year of service, they supported the launch of...
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3.0KCultivating Leaders: Scaffolding Successful Youth Outcomes with Strong Staff Supports
Holding hands, seven young people stood in a circle doing final breathing exercises before their entrance onto the stage — the culmination...
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2.9KResponding to Youth Who Have Depression or Suicidal Thoughts
In between wilderness hikes and zip lining, teens attending the weekend Camp Mariposa® addiction prevention and mentoring program learn to recognize signs...
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3.2KFamily Design Resources Offers Pennsylvania’s Legal Services Initiative Model to Other States
Sandra Bachelder is a paralegal for Pennsylvania’s Statewide Adoption and Permanency Network Legal Services Initiative (LSI). For a big part of her...
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1.9KGrief Support for Children and Teens: Play, Share, Mourn
Teen girls taking a chance climbing a telephone pole belayed by their friends, a 14-year-old learning to ride a bike, children visiting...
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3.2KPassion and Community: How Justice-involved Youth Are Helping Peers Outside Their Walls
“Tell me about a time you made a mistake.”
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2.1KYouth Helping Youth: ServiceWorks VISTAs Reflect on 9/11 and Serving Their Generation
To kick off its third year, ServiceWorks – a youth development program from AmeriCorps, the Citi Foundation and Points of Light –...
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267Bridging the Gap Between Career Perceptions and Reality With the Ace Mentor Program
“I had no idea there were so many different types of engineering.” I hear this kind of statement from students every year....
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2.5KIgniting a Passion: Newark Youth Take On Gun Violence
High school sophomores and juniors were challenged to apply the communication, project management and community mapping skills they’d learned in ServiceWorks to...
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1.8KConnecting with the Disconnected: Youth Can Be Empowered Through Volunteering and Service
When youth and young adults are provided a platform that empowers them to be changemakers within their community, they begin to realize...
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1.7KProfessional Development and Leadership: A Conversation about the OST Workforce
Thomas Rajan, senior vice president of strategic leadership development for Boys and Girls Clubs of America, spoke with Youth Today’s Resource Hub...
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2.7KUnify a Fragmented Profession: A Conversation About the OST Workforce
Ellen Gannett is director of the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST) at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College. NIOST...
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2.6KSchool-age Care and OST: A Conversation About the OST Workforce
Tony Streit, principal investigator for National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment spoke with Youth Today’s Resource Hub editor Sara Hill about...
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1.4KEarn to Learn: A Teen’s Job Is to Do Well in School
Young people commit — in writing — to a grade they will earn for each class. The better they perform, the higher...
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2.1KPartnering with Schools Reduces Hunger Among School Kids and Families
Hunger in America is not so much a lack of access to food; it’s a lack of access to nutrition. School-based programs...
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4.8KWhat Lessons Have You Learned From the Kids You Work With?
As we gear up for summer programming, camp directors and staff who attended the American Camp Association conference in Atlanta last week...
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2.5KAsk a Youth Worker: When Was the Last Time You Felt Like You Made a Difference?
Youth Today asked attendees of the National Black Child Development Institute’s annual conference earlier this year about the a recent time they...
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2.2KArtistic Collaboration: Transforming Youth and Youth Justice by Integrating Arts
The room was silent. Twelve probation officers sat silently in a circle. Some glared at the floor, some looked at the ceiling....
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1.9KUnaccompanied No More: Family Mediation and Preservation First
How can we expect young people who are worried about where they will sleep that night, where their next meal will come...
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4.8KUniting Sport and Therapy on One Field
Children who participate in Doc Wayne’s Chalk Talk program are most often survivors of complex trauma. According to the National Alliance on...
