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Key Findings: Trends in the Parent-Report of Health Care Provider-Diagnosis and Medication Treatment for ADHD: United States, 2003 – 2011

How Can Youth Service Providers Keep Sex Offenders Out?

Most all youth-serving organizations rely upon criminal background checks (CBC) to filter out applicants with sex offenses. According to Michael Johnson, youth...

Hispanics Doubly Hampered by Obamacare Rollout

written by Michael Payant  CHICAGO– For millions of Hispanics, the federal government’s troubled rollout of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act...

Are the Hurdles Too High? To be Young, Male and Homeless in America

Shawn, at right, who is homeless but also the caretaker of his family. From the Chicago Bureau: After finishing middle school, a...

The Nation’s Report Card: U.S. States in a Global Context

The First Eight Years: Giving Kids a Foundation for Lifetime Success

Has Education Paid Off for Black Workers?

Something to Say: Success Principles for Afterschool Arts Programs From Urban Youth and Other Experts

Parity Law Means More Treatment for Youths’ Mental Illness, Substance Abuse

Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius talks about the Affordable Care Act at theSouthside Medical Center in Atlanta on Friday, Nov. 8, 2013. She was in...

Listen to Me: Youth Share What They Want From After School Programs in New Report

  SAY Si, a San Antonio, Texas, multidisciplinary arts program, includes a line item in its budget for purchasing students’ work to...

Sports-Related Concussions in Youth: Improving the Science, Changing the Culture

Love Evident in Top Dropout Prevention Programs

The New Directions Alternative Education Center in Manassas, Va. won a 2013 National Dropout Prevention Network award for their work. L-R: Principal...

Youth Organizations Educate Public About Affordable Care Act

ATLANTA — People trickled into the multipurpose room at Atlanta’s East Lake YMCA on a Wednesday night, some with children in tow....

Dropout Prevention Strategy: Be Less Boring

Standing room only at the 25th annual National Dropout Prevention Network Conference, with a keynote address by former Education Secretary Bill Bennett....

Taking Charge: How Many Trans Youth Are Trumping the Medical System

Stronger Hospital, picture above, is one of the only places in Chicago where trans youth can get assistance transitioning at an affordable...

Foundations Call for Overhaul of Federal Child Welfare Financing

WASHINGTON – Federal funding for child welfare should be overhauled to enable more children to live with families while reducing the amount...

A New Majority: Low Income Students in the South and Nation

Former Youth Today Publisher Dies; an ‘Unsung’ Hero of Washington Journalism

At first, Sara Fritz used journalism to expose the hazards of big money in congressional campaigns. Then she used journalism to help...

Missouri Child Protection Undergoes Fresh Scrutiny

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT) The emergency room diagnosis of the toddler’s fracture fell into that unsettling gray area where nobody was able...