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Nearly $60M in Federal Funding Restored for OST Programs

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers have restored nearly $60 million in federal funding for out-of-school-time (OST) programs serving U.S. schoolchildren. Congress’s decision to restore...

Obama Presses Higher Ed to be More Inclusive of Disenfranchised, Challenged and Poor Students

Official photo courtesy the White House. As an effort to increase enrollment numbers and include more low-income students in colleges, President Barack...

A Grieving Mother’s Quest to End Bullying

  Following her teen son’s suicide, Tina Long leads a charge to change how schools respond to bullying incidents. Photo courtesy Tina...

Far Rockaway Youth Group For the Youth, Run By the Youth

NEW YORK — When Milan Taylor read reports in New York City tabloids that a local elementary school, Far Rockaway’s P.S. 106, had...

Low-Income Families and the Cost of Child Care: State Child Care Subsidies, Out-of-Pocket Expenses and the Cliff Effect

Course to Focus on Mentoring in the Digital Age

  Photo by canuzuner / iStock / Thinkstock Social media has forever altered the landscape of communications between adult mentors and their young mentees....

Newsmakers January – February 2013

Former Visions Education Managing Partner Donna Givens Williams was recently named president of the Detroit-based Youth Development Commission (YDC). Williams has extensive...

Children As Givers: Teaching Kids and Teens to be Philanthropic

April 20, 2010. People around the world were glued to their TV’s as hundreds of millions of gallons of oil gushed into...

In This Together: The Hidden Cost of Young Adult Unemployment

More Kids Lived with Long-Term Unemployed Parent in ’13 than Pre-Recession

Graphic from a 2013 Urban Institute report on children of unemployed parents. More children were living with at least one long-term unemployed parent during...

In New Workshops for Queens Kids, Fun and Games with a Side of Math and Science

  Ron Callahan, left, coaches students in computer programming and circuitry at his Nov. 26 Raspberry Heights workshop. Photo by Meral Agish.   ...

Why Teens Commit Suicide: And What Can Be Done to Prevent It?

By the time Cheryl Sharp was 18 years old, she had attempted to end her own life on three separate occasions. Her...

What to do if you think a child is considering suicide

Dr. Matthew Wintersteen, director of research at the Thomas Jefferson University Medical College’s Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, spent five years...

Computing and Engineering in Afterschool

Eating Disorders: More Than Meets The Eye

The last time I went to rehab, I had no hope,” admits 24-year-old Kaylee Vanderhoof, regrettably. “I did not care if I...

Getting at the Roots of Trauma

  When violence and mental illness stem from adverse childhood experiences. Eddie Bocanegra grew up in Chicago’s mostly Mexican-American Pilsen neighborhood in...

CHRIS Kids Aims to Ease the Hold of Trauma

In serving more than 20,000 adults, adolescents and children since 1981, CHRIS Kids has always understood the importance of dealing with trauma,...

Self-Harm: Identifying and Supporting Teens Who Intentionally Hurt Themselves

For some students, stresses in their lives can lead to dangerous behavior, such as intentional self-injuries Juliana Kerrest started hurting herself when...

Understanding Clinical Treatment

Understanding clinical treatment Understanding the basics of clinical treatment can help youth-development professionals better support young people they work with who need...