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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...

Number of Homeless U.S. Schoolchildren Hits Record High

WASHINGTON – The number of homeless children enrolled in U.S. public schools rose 10 percent in the 2011-12 school year to...

In ‘Vernon’s World,’ a Young Photographer Documents the Life of a Homeless Teenager

Vernon Foster walks down 9th Street to visit a friend in a park. He roams shirtless whenever it’s warm enough to allow...

Improving the Health, Safety, and Well-Being of Young Adults

Local Programs Supplement the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

Megan Owens and friends. Photo by Ashley Lauer. It’s unclear how many families are living with their children in the extended-stay...

In New Book, Former Foster Parent Investigates the American Foster Care System

NEW YORK — Demetrius Johnson was placed into foster care when he was only a few months old. Over the...

A Trans-teen’s Story: Respecting the Pronoun

When I was born, the doctor dictated the way I would live the rest of my life simply by proclaiming “It’s a...

Changing the Course for Infants and Toddlers

From the field • Focus • LGBTQ Youth-Serving Organizations

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Family Project Director, Ellen Kahn, identified five LGBTQ-serving agencies that consistently use best practices. Below are...

All Together Now: Collaboration and Innovation for Youth Engagement

LGBT Communities and the Affordable Care Act

Extended Learning Time

Beginning this school year, 35 schools in five states — Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and Tennessee — will take part...

How Children’s Savings Accounts Catapult Kids to College

Jonathan Cabrera working on the Computer Numerical Control machine. Photo courtesy Rochester Institute of Technology/National Technical for the Deaf. When 20-year-old Jonathan Cabrera...

One Pilot Program

A community collaborates to help families save for college Read the main bar story How Children’s Savings Accounts Catapult Kids to College Under...

Transteens

Transgender teens come from all over New York to find refuge on Christopher Street but soon discover they are underserved by social-services...

Trans Freedom Fighters Help Today’s Trans Teens

Photo by Robert Stolarick In the late 1990s when Carl Siciliano worked at Safe Space, an organization that helped homeless teens, he...

DRUMBEAT Program Provides a Safe Space for Rhythmic Reflection

DRUMBEAT, a group program that uses hand drumming to create a fun, safe space for social learning and self-reflection, provided her with a...

Storyteller Network Gives Faces, Voices to Poverty

Screenshot of Barbara of Lancaster, Pa., sharing her experience with SNAP in a video On...

Advocates Fret About Effects of Government Shutdown

WASHINGTON – Most youth programs could continue operating through the short-term, but an extended government shutdown could have a much greater impact,...