As COVID-19 upended their usual protocols, some nonprofits saw the tally of homeless youth they served plummet. But for other organizations across...
The $800 million that the American Rescue Plan earmarked for homeless students is the largest such federal expenditure in a decade, with...
The Justice Department has said it will not reopen the federal investigation into the 2014 death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was...
Daily, an average of 17 U.S. veterans has resorted to suicide, taking their lives at a 52.3% greater rate than other Americans...
As suicide rates for women veterans have increased, proportionately, more than male rates, an increasing number of those deaths involved firearms, according...
The students, known as Thunder Fellows, are part of the inaugural class of an afterschool program founded in the wake of the...
Almost 22,000 10- through 24-year-olds died of accidental drug overdoses in the United States between 2015 and 2019, according to a new...
Death rates were 5.9 times higher for previously incarcerated 11- to 21-year-olds in Ohio than in that state’s general population of youth...
New research suggests giving extra cash to low-income mothers can change their infants' brain development. Brain measurements at age 1 showed faster...
The death of a 13-year-old student who apparently overdosed on fentanyl at his Connecticut school has drawn renewed pleas for schools to...
Surveillance video shows a Black 17-year-old struggling with staff at a Wichita juvenile center last fall before he died after he was...
A proposal to overhaul New Mexico's social studies standards has stirred debate over how race should be taught in schools, with thousands...
At least three states have called on public employees or National Guard troops to fill in as substitute teachers, bus drivers and...
The Urban Institute releases a new, research-based guide to help communities reduce youth and gang violence.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association has adopted a sport-by-sport approach for transgender athletes, bringing the organization in line with the U.S. and...
When Stephanie Hull was a kid, long before she became the CEO of Girls Inc., a national organization aimed at helping young...
Since 2000, Judge Donna Scott Davenport has overseen the juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, where the county jailed kids in 48%...
Karen Pittman has been at the forefront of youth development for nearly 50 years, championing a whole-child approach to learning that goes...
Traumatic brain injury among juvenile offenders will be assessed as part of a three-year research project that’s slated to enroll the first...
As more families pivot back to remote learning amid quarantines and school closures, reliable, consistent access to devices and home internet remains...