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How Should Kids, Youth Workers Interact Virtually?

The key is keeping the same boundaries as in the physical world, agencies say, but that gets trickier online. Although youth workers...

To Text or Not to Text?

Youth-serving agencies have faced another electronic opportunity/challenge in the past half-decade that’s grown up right alongside social media: the burgeoning prevalence of...

State Program Gets Mental Health Services to Kids Who Need it Most

From the The Indianapolis Star More than 100 Indiana children are receiving intensive mental health services under a new state program designed to...

Florida DJJ Says Aftercare Contractors Overpaid; State May Replace Vendors with Probation Officers

UPDATE: The Henry & Rilla White Foundation, Inc. released a response to these reports, which can be found here: Letter to The Reader...

Major Layoffs Expected for New Orleans’ Juvenile Court in 2013

Massive cuts are expected for New Orleans’ Juvenile Court, with more than 30 employees expected to be removed from the city’s payroll in...

Where Foxfire Still Glows

It’s first period, in late September, and students in the Foxfire Magazine class at Rabun County High School, in northeast Georgia, are doing what many...

Prison Photography: A Memory Divided

Hundreds of thousands of people see inside the places and spaces where we lock up young members of our society. On any given day,...

California Non-Profit Treats Gun Violence as a Public Health Issue

The California Wellness Foundation has spent decades treating gun violence against youth as a public health issue. In doing so, the Foundation...

In the Wake of Tragedy, Should Schools Have Armed Personnel on Campus?

The national debate about gun-control laws was re-ignited following last week’s tragic Newtown, Conn. school shooting, with proponents of both sides taking...

When Terrible Things Happen: Helping Children Heal

This story was first published by CNN.  Editor’s note: Former CNN correspondent Pat Etheridge is a journalist specializing in children’s health and family...

Experts Address Importance of Depression Screening and Treatment for Low-Income Mothers

The Urban Institute held an event Dec. 13 in Washington, D.C. titled “Helping Depressed Low-Income Mothers Give Their Young Children a Good...

After Newtown Shooting, Answers May Be Found in Decade-old Government Report

The details of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are slowly coming to light, but a government document issued a decade ago...

Day Before Connecticut Massacre, Michigan Legislators OK Bill Allowing Guns in Schools, Daycare Centers

Efficacy of Schoolwide Programs to Promote Social and Character Development and Reduce Problem Behavior in Elementary School Children

Reading Achievement of U.S. Fourth-Grade Students in an International Context

Mathematics and Science Achievement of U.S. Fourth- and Eighth-Grade Students in an International Context

Officials Release New Details in Elementary School Massacre

On Saturday, Newtown, Conn. officials released the names of the 20 children and six adults slain in last Friday’s shooting spree at...

Remembering Elementary School Shootings of the Past

The Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre Nov. 14 constitutes the second deadliest mass school shooting incident in American history, second only to...

Support for Federal Youth Advisory Council Grows

Advocates are ramping up pressure on the White House to appoint a bipartisan advisory council made up of community leaders under the...

Sex Ed: A Complicated Equation For CPS

Story courtesy of The Chicago Bureau.  CHICAGO — Every fall, when Jeff Frecka teaches health to his class of ninth graders, he knows...