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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,...

Federal Outlays for Children Plummet from FY ’11 to FY ’12

WASHINGTON – Federal outlays for children declined $28 billion, or about 7 percent, from fiscal year 2011 to fiscal 2012, the biggest...

In Nation’s Richest Farmland, Some Workers’ Kids Get No Education at All

  Erick Araujo, 13, was disciplined and removed from his middle school in Lost Hills, California, through next fall semester. But he was...

Kentucky Child Abuse Deaths Lower in 2013

Fewer Kentucky children died as a result of abuse and neglect in a 2012-2013 evaluation period than in the 2011-2012 period, despite...

Proposed Food Stamp Cuts Put Most Vulnerable At Risk

  Markita Barrett, 35, using her WIC vouchers, places two gallon jugs of milk into her cart as she shops for juice...

Is Citywide Afterschool Coordination Going Nationwide?

Report: After-school Programs Need Better Coordination

WASHINGTON, D.C. — After-school programs need to be better coordinated in many large cities to serve more children, says a new report....

CDC Finds Teens Using E-Cigarettes Doubled Last Year

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), adolescent use of electronic cigarettes doubled from 2011 to 2012, with an...

Notes from the Field: Electronic Cigarette Use Among Middle and High School Students — United States, 2011–2012

Q&A With Patrick Boyle, Author of ‘Scout’s Honor’

First, the scout leaders befriended the boys, then mentored them … and ultimately, molested them.  And then, all too often, the scout...

Poor Quality Housing Is Tied to Children’s Emotional and Behavioral Problems

Results from the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Summary of National Findings

Future Problems Forecast for Young in Poor Housing Conditions: Report

Written by  Quentin Heilbroner for The Chicago Bureau Living in substandard housing can be a leading predictor of future behavioral problems, according to a...

California Survey Shows Troubling Portrait of Children’s Lives

San Jose Mercury News / (MCT) PALO ALTO — More than 4 percent of seventh-graders have brought a gun to school, more...

Sesame Street Workshop Helps Kids with Incarcerated Parents

Kharon Benson reads letters from his imprisoned father. At age 10, Benson found out that his father was not in the military...