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1.5KGet the Big Picture When Seeking Funding: Create a Fiscal Map
The key reason an agency or community coalition does a fiscal map is “not to find huge pots of money that are...
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Child Mental Illness Widespread, yet Untreated
It’s no secret that young people with mental disorders are more likely to drop out of school, be arrested, experience homelessness and...
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2.0KSchools Remove Barriers to Mental Health Treatment
School-based health programs are teaming up with youth-development groups to deliver vital ongoing services to one group of vulnerable students: children with...
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1.0KSpring Break Is No Picnic for Some Parents
When spring break rolls around, kids are delighted to have a vacation from school. But for working parents with limited time off,...
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2.3KTeens Work With Legislators to Bring Change
The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate and the largest prison population of any country in the world. On any given day,...
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More Than a Salary: Summer Job Provides Important Lessons on Work and Life
When Myles Davis found out about Milwaukee’s Summer Youth Internship Program — a component of the Mayor’s Earn & Learn Program that...
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1.9KMilwaukee’s Summer Jobs Program Grows Despite Funding Falloff
When Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett calls local employers and foundation leaders to drum up support for “Earn & Learn” — a summer...
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1.6KWhy Should Cities Invest in After-school Programs? Five Mayors Explain
After-school programs are helping reduce gang activity, crime and child obesity, five mayors of U.S. cities said Tuesday at the National After-School...
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2.0KSocial Time Needs Good Social Media Policy
Wherever kids go today, social media goes, too. In fact, in a recent study by Common Sense Media, 41 percent of teens...
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Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2014 National Report
This report by the National Center for Juvenile Justice provides a nation-wide and comprehensive analysis of juvenile crime, victimization, and the juvenile...
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Campaign Pushes New York City to Hike Social Service Workers’ Pay to $15 an Hour
Frontline social service workers are often underpaid and don’t have opportunities for advancement. Now two New York City agencies are pushing the...
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1.0KVital Ingredient Missing in Children’s Lives: Nature
“The child in nature is an endangered species,” wrote Richard Louv. His 2005 book, “Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children...
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1.3KWhat Happened to Summertime Play?
Cynthia Gentry, founder of the Atlanta Task Force on Play, remembers the summers of her childhood: She’d leave home in the morning...
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3.9KDocumentary on Homeless Teens in Chicago Aims to ‘Show the Struggle’
Think being a teenager was tough? Imagine going through that period without a steady roof over your head. That’s the tale that...
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America’s Skills Challenge: Millennials and the Future
The Education Testing Service takes a troubling look at the state of the upcoming generation's competency in literacy, numeracy and problem solving...
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Wired to Learn: K-12 Students in the Digital Classroom
This new white paper prepared by the Center for Promise at America's Promise Alliance examines the efficacy and scope of digital learning...
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1.6KWhy Do Low-Income Kids Suffer So Much Summer Learning Loss?
Call it summer learning loss, summer slide or brain drain. The loss of critical reading and math skills among children during the...
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1.7KInnovative Summer Learning Program Expands Kids’ ‘Horizons’
CHESTERTOWN, Md. — Jack the Beagle proved a big hit in Randy Decker’s fourth-grade class. Decker’s students loved reading to the dog,...
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1.9KIn Brooklyn, Green Space With Nowhere to Play
NEW YORK — Down a long hallway, through electric blue double doors, the squeaks of young people’s sneakers echoed from P.S. K753’s...
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2.5KCatching Emotional and Developmental Problems in Homeless Children
A look inside the state’s homeless shelters quickly reveals a sobering fact — many residents are children. And a substantial number of...
