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2.0KAdvocates call for more autism training for crisis hotlines ahead of 988 launch
Research shows people with autism spectrum disorder have a much greater risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Despite this – and despite doctors identifying more...
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3.0KNew online-only SAT puts students with disabilities at new disadvantage, advocates say
Some young people who are neurodivergent or have learning disabilities, already concerned about what they say are structural biases in the existing...
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1.6KAddressing youth substance use through school services and supports
Urban Institute researchers discuss lessons learned from school-based approaches to youth substance use implemented in D.C., Massachusetts, and New Mexico.
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673Alabama cites abortion ruling in transgender medication case
Days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states can prohibit abortion, Alabama has seized on the decision to argue that the...
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3.1KHurricane Maria devastated her home. Now, this teen is helping put survival kits in Florida libraries
Seven months after Nadya Rexach-Rivera celebrated her quinceañera in her beloved Puerto Rico, Hurricane Maria upended her life. The catastrophic storm in...
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1.0KFamilies brace for changes to pandemic-era free school meals
The pandemic-era federal aid that made school meals available for free to all public school students — regardless of family income levels...
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1.3KStudy: Schooling for incarcerated youth is fragmented, inferior
Most of the 50 states have clearly designated which agencies are in charge of hiring teachers for incarcerated juveniles, creating teaching curriculum...
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1.2KLGBTQ students would get new protections under Biden plan
The rights of LGBTQ students would become enshrined in federal law and victims of campus sexual assault would gain new protections under...
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1.2KAfter year of violence, US schools try to tame tensions
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The first week of school was supposed to mark a triumphant return to classrooms at San Francisco’s Everett...
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1.1KYouth prison reform in the COVID era
Researchers at the Urban Institute discuss how three states reduced youth incarceration and implemented reforms through the trying times of the COVID...
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1.9KExpanded wheelchair football league launches third season
The Move United-launched league has players and coaches in Birmingham. Ala.; Buffalo, N.Y.; Chicago; Cleveland; Dallas, Los Angeles; Milwaukee; New Orleans, Phoenix;...
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2.2KAs air quality worsens, so does childhood asthma
Six million of children in the U.S. have been diagnosed with asthma, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
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2.2KAfter a win for U.S. climate change education, classroom implementation is off to a slow start
Many teachers have little or no formal training about climate change, much less about how to teach it, and what students learn...
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2.0KJooYeun Chang to be director of child well-being at Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
JooYeun Chang arrives after serving as acting assistant secretary and principal deputy assistant secretary for the Administration for Children and Families for...
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1.9KNew federal immigration policy offers easier path to legal residency for some young migrants
New federal policies that took effect last month now offer some immigrant children protection from deportation and an easier path to legal...
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4.6KNot enough beds, services for homeless youth in New Mexico
“Youth homelessness is largely hidden,” said Forrest Verde-Dudek, housing youth project manager for the New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness. “They might...
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3.0K‘There’s no safe place’: One queer youth shelter serves all of New Mexico
LGBTQ+ youth experience homelessness at significantly higher rates than their peers. In Albuquerque, New Mexico's only shelter specifically for queer young people provides...
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2.3K‘I try my hardest’: Homeless youth fight substance abuse in New Mexico
New Mexico lacks treatment facilities to help housing insecure youth struggling with addiction. Serenity Mesa in Albuquerque, one of the only programs...
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2.1KTackling youth homelessness in New Mexico
New Mexico consistently ranks toward the bottom among states for child welfare. In an under-resourced state with an overburdened system, a tight-knit group...
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1.9KTrans kids’ treatment can start younger, new guidelines say
A leading transgender health association has lowered its recommended minimum age for starting gender transition treatment, including sex hormones and surgeries. The...
