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Education at a Glance – 2015
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) provides the authoritative source for data and information about the current state of education...
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Reducing Teen Substance Misuse: What Really Works
This new report from Trust for America's Health uses comprehensive national data to rank all 50 states on how how effective they...
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1.4KVideo: Aging Out, Stepping Up
Senior counselor James Milan, Claremont Neighborhood Center, Bronx, N.Y.
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1.6KAging Out, Stepping Up
James Milan entered foster care at age 4. “My childhood wasn’t the greatest,” he says wryly. “I was trying to figure out...
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1.5KConnecting With Parents a Key Part of Refugee After-school Program
New American Pathways resettles about 500 refugees per year, most in DeKalb County, Georgia. Kids in the after-school program focus on as...
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1.8KIn Class, Out of Court: How One School District Triumphed Over Truancy
Sending kids who habitually miss school to court under the state’s 20-year truancy law hasn’t helped them stay in school. But a...
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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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2.1KSexual Exploitation Victims Urged to Come Forward, New Anti-trafficking Envoy Says
Susan Coppedge was recently confirmed as the new director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons in the U.S....
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Black Millennials in America
The Black Youth Project recently created and published this comprehensive report meant to give a data-driven and nuanced perspective of the economic,...
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6.0KAddiction Among Teens Can Be Prevented
Just 5 percent of youth with a substance use disorder get treatment
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2.1K‘Maker Movement’ Brings New Energy to Out-of-School Science and Art
The maker movement and out-of-school time programs are natural allies: They both focus on hands-on, experiential learning. Making and tinkering can support...
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High Quality Child Care is Out of Reach for Working Families
The Economic Policy Institute gauges the affordability of child care across the country using several benchmarks and shows that child care has...
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Newsmakers | November-December 2015
Rajiv Vinnakota - Marsha Bonner - Austan Goolsbee - Dr. Scott D. Berns M.D., M.P.H. - Michael Rubinger
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1.7KSchools, Youth Development Programs Seek to Engage Students in Career and Technical Education
“We are more than six years into the so-called [recession] recovery, yet millions of Americans continue to struggle with finding a good-paying...
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1.6KConnect the Dots Between Past and Present
CHRIS Kids uses a trauma-informed approach with young people and their families — in its counseling center and in its training center...
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2.5KNew Toolkit Issued to Help Providers Measure Trauma With ACES Survey
A new toolkit is out that aims to help services providers give a survey about traumatic childhood experiences that are linked to...
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3.5KDo After-school STEM Programs Lead to Science Careers? Should They?
Do out-of-school time STEM programs really lead kids into science careers? The Chicago Museum of Science and Industry plans to find out.
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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...
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1.5KResource Guide Shows Ways to Support Undocumented Students
Out-of-school time providers can find valuable resources for undocumented students in a new resource guide recently released by the U.S. Department of...
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Parents Behind Bars: What Happens to Their Children?
This new report from ChildTrends sheds light on the often-undiscussed result of mass incarceration; how it affects the children of those in...
