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1.6KExpand National Service To Provide Jobs For Youth, Adults, Urban Institute Report Urges
A new report by the Urban Institute describes how federal jobs programs could be ramped up today to address the crisis of...
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1.4KInternet Easing Effects of Social Isolation During Ramadan, for Disabled Community
For most of us in this country the idea of social distancing is a new one. When we greet each other it...
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1.6KEarly Estimates of the Indirect Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Maternal and Child Mortality
New modelling research published in The Lancet indicates a worrying surge in maternal and child mortality is coming due to the ongoing...
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91.8K12-Step Program Slogans Can Heal a COVID-19 World
This coming January, I plan to celebrate 20 years sober. I got clean as a teenager, at a drug and alcohol treatment...
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1.4KLost At Home: The Risks and Challenges for Internally Displaced Children
A new report from UNICEF takes a comprehensive look at the global internal displacement of children due to conflict and violence.
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3.0KNew Mexico Must Do More For Homeless Youth
As a longtime advocate for children, youth and families in New Mexico, I wholeheartedly believe in the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage...
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3.1KNative American Children Protected in Groundbreaking Foster Care Settlement
For decades, we have repeated and recapitulated: Our nation’s foster care system is broken. New Mexico, which receives the lowest markers of...
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3.2K‘Crip Camp’ Documentary Inspires Self-Advocacy For Youth With Disabilities
Last week, our executive editor suggested I watch a film called “Crip Camp” on Netflix. I had heard about it, and thought...
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2.0KCOVID-19 Makes Delivering Services to New Mexican Immigrant Families, Children Harder
Las Cumbres Community Services is providing crisis services to immigrant families and children in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our organization is...
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2.6KHispanic Georgia High School Students Call HoPe Program a ‘Game Changer’ For Them
What started out as an idea scrawled on a fast food napkin 10 years ago has evolved into an after-school program for...
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1.5KThe Nation’s Report Card: Civics, Geography and U.S. History
The Department of Education releases the latest results from the Nation's Report Card showing how eighth-graders' test scores changed from 2014 to...
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2.6KIncarceration Increases Young Black Men’s Risk of Repeatedly Being Violently Injured
In 2016, my colleagues and I wrote a paper that examined risk factors for repeat violent injury among black men in Baltimore...
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3.8KMENTOR Portal Lets Youth Organizations Go Virtual, Shift Mentoring Online
Social distancing has disrupted social services of all kinds, but nowhere are the changes felt more strongly than in youth organizations that...
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3.3K5 Ways to Best Support Homeless Students During COVID-19
As a college student, I experienced a devastating hurricane and most of my town was flooded. I remember this experience as being...
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2.0KCoronavirus Influencing College Enrollment in Uncertain Times
Frejoel Munoz couldn’t stop smiling as he read the email. “It was such a great moment to know that I got into...
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1.5KHow to Help Struggling Kids During Coronavirus
This time of year usually marks year-end celebrations and summer preparations for youth. But with regular traditions like prom and graduation on...
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1.7KAlabama Anti-gun Violence Activists Expect Uptick In Shootings Due to COVID-19 Stress
As coronavirus continues to disrupt daily life, anti-gun violence advocates worry the communities hit hardest will see spikes in shootings.
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1.9KCoronavirus Produces School Closures, Uncertain Futures, Extra Stress for Alabama Teens
“You could say I’m an expert at being stuck at home,” said Jacob Frazier, a 17-year-old high school senior who is abiding...
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2.0KIsolated in a Harlem Youth Shelter: One Youth’s Tale of COVID-19
First, it was just a headache. A migraine burrowing into his forehead, one that heated and cooled his body, made the room...
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2.9KHow Will People Remember COVID-19 Years From Now?
As states slowly start to lift the stay-at-home restrictions and businesses reopen, some people feel the end is in sight. As we...
