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1.6KPreventing and Addressing Child Sexual Abuse in Youth Serving Organizations
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University created this comprehensive desk-guide for youth-serving organizations to learn to more effectively prevent and address child sexual...
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1.6KHow I Helped My High School Service Club Find A Way To Keep Helping
The Helping Hawks Club members have invested their time since 2011 feeding the homeless (a major draw to the club), spending lunchtime...
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2.2KHow The Differing Sense Of Community In Florida, Italy Affects Children: New Book
Stell Simonton recently talked with Barbara Bennett Woodhouse, author of “The Ecology of Childhood: How Our Changing World Threatens Children’s Rights.” Woodhouse,...
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1.5KMore Than a Public Health Crisis, Gun Violence Is an Emergency
There have been calls to declare gun violence a public health crisis. I would agree with this statement, which largely speaks to...
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2.0KMiddle School Students In Virginia Take Part In Worldwide Hour Of Code
Three afternoons this week — Computer Science Education Week — students at Rocky Run Middle School in Fairfax County, Virginia, are gathering...
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2.5KHere’s How to Make Youth-adult Partnership Work
How different would today look if people most affected by decisions held equal power in making those decisions? The vision arising from...
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2.6KVirtual Communities More Crucial Than Ever For The Disabled
PROSTOCK-STUDIO/SHUTTERSTOCK As I continue to make connections with young people who live with disabilities, I am finding that many of them rely...
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2.3KIntegrate SEL By Focusing On Strong Relationships In Diverse Environment, Report Says
How do youth organizations and schools integrate social and emotional learning into their full range of activities? How do they also respond...
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2.3KLearning During COVID-19: Initial Findings on Students’ Reading and Math Achievement and Growth
NWEA uses data from over four million students in grades 3-8 to assess how school shutdowns and continued distance learning due to...
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4.7KTeaching After-school Online? How To Effectively Support SEL
MIA STUDIO/SHUTTERSTOCK Quarantine has a very isolating effect on the world. There is a lack of social interaction, many days in pajamas...
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2.7KHow To Address The Growing Crisis Of Youth Firearm Suicide
SUZANNE TUCKER/SHUTTERSTOCK Suicide is the second leading cause of death for young people in the United States. More children and teens die...
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1.6KWhat a Biden-Harris Administration Means For Gun Violence Epidemic
Although public health experts have rightly been focused on the COVID-19 pandemic this year, America has been in the grips of another...
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1.4KPrepare Instead Of Repair For Equity, Inclusion In OST
Equity and inclusion cannot be buzzwords that are conveniently used reactively to convey a message, apply for funding, be included for some...
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2.5KHow To Chart An Anti-oppression Path For Your Youth Organization
As difficult as it may seem, there is a more equitable, anti-oppression path forward for youth-centered organizations. An anti-oppression organizational orientation recognizes,...
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2.5KBring Back Black Girls Before They’re Herded Into Foster Care, Justice System
The #SayHerName movement that was launched in 2014 by the African American Policy Forum and the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy...
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649National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) Career Opportunity
NCSL POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT – Deadline to apply December 09, 2020, 5p.m. MST JOB TITLE: ...
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1.6KHow Will Youth With Disabilities Celebrate Holidays During COVID-19?
Right around the winter holidays a year ago, we first heard the news of the coronavirus as it appeared in Wuhan, China....
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1.8KBill Seeks ‘Pandemic Funding’ For 21st Century After-school Programs
As Congress considers a spending bill with behind-the-scenes negotiations this week, many youth-serving organizations hope for an injection of cash into out-of-school...
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2.0K2020 Children’s Mental Health Report: Telehealth in an Increasingly Virtual World
The Child Mind Institute takes a look at the current mental health of the nation's children as they grow and learn in...
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1.9KMore After-school Suppers Are Key Support For Food-insecure Households, Report Says
More kids in after-school programs are getting an evening meal through the program, according to a recent report from Food Research &...
