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3.3KCompassion Fatigue Rampant in Youth Service Industry
Maybe it starts as an extra drink after work — you know, just to take the edge off. Or an extended gripe...
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3.1KAn Underdog Sport in NY, Wrestling Helps Students Score Better Grades
“Myself and most of our teachers, we were thinking about wrestling like Hulk Hogan or Andre the Giant,” said assistant principal Tommy...
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1.2KJuggling Child Care, Other People’s Big Families and Toxic Chemicals
NEW YORK — The women wait on an exposed street corner above the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway at the intersection of Marcy and Division...
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1.7KAs Congress Considers Cutting Funds, After-school Leaders Say Programs Vital for Kids and Working Families
WASHINGTON, DC — The vast majority of parents — 84 percent — support public funding of after-school programs, said Afterschool Alliance Executive...
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1.3KTeen Siblings Create App to Monitor Police Interactions With Civilians
ATLANTA — Three Georgia teens have created an Android app called Five-O to document police abuse of authority that has been downloaded...
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1.4KActing Out: Red Hook Youth Channel Their Troubles Through Theater
Brooklyn theater company Falconworks Artist Group has been putting on an eight-week program for kids for the past 10 years to help...
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1.1KAfter Spectacular Rise of National After-school Program, What Comes Next?
Today it’s sitting precariously on the chopping block, but the federal grant program known as 21st Century Community Learning Centers once seemed...
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1.5KAuthor-Illustrator’s Foundation Spurs Innovative School-based Projects
Who, having read the story of Peter going out to play in “The Snowy Day,” can forget this book by Ezra Jack...
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1.7KAcross the Border & Underage: A Look at Sexual Exploitation of Immigrant Children
According to the report, “In the United States, human traffickers most frequently exploit the desperation of undocumented immigrants as a means of...
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Tangible Improvement: Assessing for Youth Program Quality
In Minnesota our Extension Center for Youth Development made a strategic decision in 2011 to train ALL our staff working with 4-H...
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Beyond 4 Walls and a Roof – Addressing Homelessness Among Transgender Youth
The Center for American Progress outlines the unique social and economic struggles the ever-growing population of homeless transgender youth face across the...
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Grade Level: Tracking Online Education in the United States, 2014
The Online Learning Consortium reports on the state of the online higher education industry. They find that it has experienced its slowest...
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1.4KWill Federal After-School Funding Survive Senate Committee?
As Congress raises its ax to No Child Left Behind, it could also slice away the 17-year program that serves 1.6 million...
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1.3KAt YouthBuild, Young People Construct Stronger Futures
ATLANTA — On a sunny day in October, Aikeem Lawson, 22, was among a dozen or so young adults repairing a dilapidated...
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1.0KAfter-school Providers, Others Join Effort to Preserve 21st Century Funding
Advocates for after-school programs have swung into action, fearing that federal funding for after-school and summer programs could be diverted and lost....
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1.4KOases Emerge In America’s ‘Food Deserts’
Many of the teens in the impoverished section of San Antonio had never seen a garden before, let alone planted vegetables in...
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Closer to Home: An Analysis of the State and Local Impact of the Texas Juvenile Justice Reforms
This recent report from the Council of State Governments Justice Center and Texas A&M University presents findings which show that youth in...
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1.3KLocal Dance Program Gets Kids on the Move
An Atlanta youth organization, Moving in the Spirit, began in 1986 as a dance class for girls at a women’s shelter in...
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1.7KFood, Fat, Fear: Walking the Line between Informing and Stressing Kids
A girl with a blank expression stares out of the black and white photo. “Warning: Chubby kids may not outlive their parents,”...
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1.1KAfter-School Programs for Low-Income Children Endangered by Proposed Senate Bill
A draft of a bill proposed in the U.S. Senate — the Elementary and Secondary Education Act — would kill a program...
