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1.2KTransforming Juvenile Probation: Restructuring Probation Terms to Promote Success
Researchers from the Urban Institute discuss how to reform the probation system to be less harmful to youth prospects and seek greater...
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1.5KPandemic Forces Autistic People to Cope With ‘Ultimate Uncertainty’
University of California, Berkeley graduate student Hari Srinivasan had finally begun to immerse himself in campus life last year — no easy...
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2.4KSummer Programs for Kids Will Use Multiple Strategies to Cut COVID-19 Risk
What will summer programs for kids look like this year? With vaccinations increasing but with COVID-19 still a danger, organizers of summer...
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1.9KCommittee to Consider Change to Bill Targeting Trans Youth
The Montana Legislature may consider changes to a measure that would ban transgender athletes from participating in school and college sports according...
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2.7KMany Say Now is the Time to Fight Racial Bias in Foster Care
LIDERINA/SHUTTERSTOCK Cheri Williams looks back with regret at the start of her career as a child welfare caseworker in 1998. Systemic racism...
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2.0KPlaying Through a Pandemic: Youth Sports and COVID
The C.S. Mott Children's Hospital uses its National Poll on Children's Health to take a look at how parents across the country...
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2.1KDisability Service Providers Get Creative As Pandemic Threatens Programs
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit last year, Wichita, Kansas, nurse Heather McFann was at a loss as to what to do for...
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1.7KCourt: New York City Must Give All Homeless Shelters Wi-Fi
New York City must finish installing Wi-Fi in shelters for homeless families and domestic violence victims by Aug. 31, according to a...
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1.1KWith New Aid, Schools Seek Solutions To Problems New and Old
With a massive infusion of federal aid coming their way, schools across the U.S. are weighing how to use the windfall to...
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1.1KSurvey: Even As Schools Reopen, Many Students Learn Remotely
Large numbers of students are not returning to the classroom even as more schools reopen for full-time, in-person learning, according to a...
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1.5KEstimates and Projections of COVID-19 and Parental Death in the US
Researchers estimate and project the number of excess parental deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss the policy and practice reforms that...
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1.3KArrested Learning: A Survey of Youth Experiences of Police and Security at School
A new report uses results from a national survey of students to discuss the experiences they have with police in their schools.
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2.7KYoung People Have Trouble Convincing Health Care Providers of Their Chronic Pain
Natalie Linn has lived with chronic pain since she was in first grade. Her flares all but disappeared for a decade then...
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3.6KEffective Tutoring: Out-of-school Time Providers Need To Know What Works
In the coming months, after-school and summer learning programs will be partnering with schools to address learning loss in the pandemic. Tutoring will...
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1.4KLGBTQ Youth in the Workplace
The Trevor Project uses data from its 2020 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health to examine and discuss the experiences of...
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2.7KAmerican Rescue Plan Gives Out-of-school Time Programs Big Role in Pandemic Recovery,OST Reporting Project
The latest COVID-19 relief package, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, includes a huge chunk of money to benefit young people. Of...
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3.2KHaving a Mentor With the Same Disability Is Important, Young People and Research Agree
Hannah Weitzman is almost 10 and the only kid with hearing loss in her neighborhood in Chappaqua, New York. When her family...
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1.7KAbused, Often Homeless, Florida Man Got 2 Life Sentences At 17
In the decades after the civil rights era, Black communities in Jacksonville remained disproportionately impoverished, blighted and policed. Some activists would say...
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3.1KFlorida Attorney Believes Lead Poisoning Is Partial Explanation For Low-income Neighborhood Crimes
Teri Sopp’s former self stares down from a wall in Florida’s Fourth Judicial Circuit Public Defender’s Office. The painting, a gift more...
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2.3KSurvey: Pandemic Slashed Sports For Low-income Youth
Sports programs serving low-income communities have seen a big drop in youth participation because of the pandemic, according to a survey of...
