Youth Today
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1.4KAt 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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1.1KAfter-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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1.4KLocal 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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1.8KFood, 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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1.2KAfter-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...
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1.8KUnion President: Time for Listenbee to Go, OJJDP Has Spiraled Out of Control
WASHINGTON — The head of the union representing employees at the federalOffice of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has called for the...
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3.5KSettlement Houses Laid Foundation for Modern Youth Work
CHICAGO — “Childhood was invented here,” reads a quotation stenciled on a wall inside Hull House, the Chicago settlement house that is...
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Building Skills Through Summer Jobs: Lessons from the Field
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. commissioned this report which takes a comprehensive look at current data and presents a grim outlook on...
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932Public Health Approach Being Adapted for Kids in Trouble with Substances, the Law
Many of the kids in juvenile detention with substance abuse disorders get poor or no treatment, according to Reclaiming Futures, a nonprofit...
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4.1KKids’ Cooking Program Expanding
NEW YORK — Every Tuesday afternoon, a school cafeteria in Brooklyn becomes a professional kitchen staffed by third- and fourth-graders. With the...
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Newsmakers | January-February 2015
Laura Tomasko - Joseph Scantlebury - Sue Cunningham - Jane Campbell - William H. Scheide
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A New Majority: Low Income Students Now a Majority In the Nation’s Public Schools
This new research bulletin authored by the Southern Education Foundation analyzes statistics from the National Center for Education Statistics, illustrating the troubling...
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3.0KMany Former Foster Youth Unaware of New Health Care Benefits
NEW YORK — Torren McIntyre steadies his feet on the corner of Erasmus Street and Nostrand Avenue in central Brooklyn and forces...
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2.6KYoung Family Caregivers Face Many Struggles, Get Little Support
When Keyona Vincent was a senior in high school, she dropped out. She wasn’t pregnant or on drugs. She didn’t have any...
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1.9KCovenant House Wraps Support Around Homeless Teens
Three nights a week Todd Wilcher gets in a van and drives down Atlanta streets. He stops at the places homeless kids...
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Quality Counts 2015: Preparing to Launch – Early Childhood’s Academic Countdown
Education Week examines the policies and structures of early-childhood services and programs across the nation. Also in the report is a comprehensive...
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2.7KTechnology on Wheels: Bus Brings Computers to Kids after School
An unusual school bus lumbered down the road in Mitchell County, Ga., but it wasn’t taking kids to or from school. Instead...
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1.7KNew Approach Can Reduce Risky Drug and Alcohol Use Among Kids, Advocates Say
ATLANTA — Drugs and alcohol can cause havoc in the lives of some young people. Adults who work with kids sometimes wonder...
